Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) - correct answer Type of psychotherapy. - modifies thought patterns
in order to change moods and behaviors. - Based on the idea that negative actions or feelings are the
result of current distorted beliefs or thoughts, not unconscious forces from the past.
Where CBT takes place - correct answer Therapists work with patients in a structured setting. However,
CBT can also be applied online (uses the principles of CBT to help you track and manage your depression
and anxiety symptoms)
How long CBT treatment lasts - correct answer Short-term approach compared to psychoanalysis or
psychodynamic therapies. - Requires only 10 to 20 sessions.
CBT therapy sessions - correct answer The sessions provide opportunities to identify current life
situations that may be causing or contributing to depression. - The patient and the therapist identify
current patterns of thinking or distorted perceptions that lead to depression. - Involve working backward
through the patient's life history to discover an unconscious source of the problems the patient is facing.
Other practices of CBT outside of therapy sessions. - correct answer The patient may be asked to keep a
journal. - records life event and reactions to them. Later on, the therapist helps break down reactions
and thought patterns into several categories of self- defeating thought.
all-or-nothing thinking - correct answer viewing the world in absolute, black-and-white terms
disqualifying the positive - correct answer rejecting positive experiences by insisting they don't count
magnifying or minimizing the importance of an event - correct answer making a bigger deal about a
specific event or moment than needed.
Overgeneralization - correct answer drawing overly broad conclusions from a single event and applying
them to the rest of your thoughts or actions.
cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) - correct answer Type of psychotherapy. - modifies thought patterns
in order to change moods and behaviors. - Based on the idea that negative actions or feelings are the
result of current distorted beliefs or thoughts, not unconscious forces from the past.
Where CBT takes place - correct answer Therapists work with patients in a structured setting. However,
CBT can also be applied online (uses the principles of CBT to help you track and manage your depression
and anxiety symptoms)
How long CBT treatment lasts - correct answer Short-term approach compared to psychoanalysis or
psychodynamic therapies. - Requires only 10 to 20 sessions.
CBT therapy sessions - correct answer The sessions provide opportunities to identify current life
situations that may be causing or contributing to depression. - The patient and the therapist identify
current patterns of thinking or distorted perceptions that lead to depression. - Involve working backward
through the patient's life history to discover an unconscious source of the problems the patient is facing.
Other practices of CBT outside of therapy sessions. - correct answer The patient may be asked to keep a
journal. - records life event and reactions to them. Later on, the therapist helps break down reactions
and thought patterns into several categories of self- defeating thought.
all-or-nothing thinking - correct answer viewing the world in absolute, black-and-white terms
disqualifying the positive - correct answer rejecting positive experiences by insisting they don't count
magnifying or minimizing the importance of an event - correct answer making a bigger deal about a
specific event or moment than needed.
Overgeneralization - correct answer drawing overly broad conclusions from a single event and applying
them to the rest of your thoughts or actions.
