Practice Questions Low-Intensity Treatment
1. What is Low-intensity cognitive behavioral therapy?
2. Name three ways in which low-intensity treatments can contribute to accessible care.
3. You treat a client with depression. Explain the rationale of problem-solving therapy to this
client in a maximum of 10 sentences.
4. Explain how motivational interviewing can increase the intrinsic motivation for participation.
5. Name two advantages and two disadvantages of Virtual Reality applications such as those
used for Exposure Therapy for anxiety.
6. The Richardson paper compares the effectiveness of Behavioral Activation with Cognitive
Therapy for depression. The authors conclude that both therapies are equally effective. Why
is this good news for the treatment of depression in clinical practice?
7. What is the purpose of cognitive restructuring for depression?
8. Please explain how the theoretical underpinning of problem-solving treatment fits with the
stress-vulnerability model.
9. What is psychoanalytic psychotherapy?
10. How is CBT related to psychoanalytic psychotherapy?
11. How is CBT related to behaviorism?
12. Beck's cognitive approach and Pavlov's and Skinner's behavioral theory approach come
together to form CBT. What are three major differences between the psychoanalytic approach
(which Beck started with) and CBT
13. One of the components of CBT for Insomnia is sleep restriction. Explain in your own words
how sleep restriction works.
14. Name three positive effects that people often experience after CBT treatment for Insomnia.
15. Psychological help must be offered from a stepped-care approach. What does this mean?
16. What is a matched care approach?
17. What is IAPT?
1. What is Low-intensity cognitive behavioral therapy?
2. Name three ways in which low-intensity treatments can contribute to accessible care.
3. You treat a client with depression. Explain the rationale of problem-solving therapy to this
client in a maximum of 10 sentences.
4. Explain how motivational interviewing can increase the intrinsic motivation for participation.
5. Name two advantages and two disadvantages of Virtual Reality applications such as those
used for Exposure Therapy for anxiety.
6. The Richardson paper compares the effectiveness of Behavioral Activation with Cognitive
Therapy for depression. The authors conclude that both therapies are equally effective. Why
is this good news for the treatment of depression in clinical practice?
7. What is the purpose of cognitive restructuring for depression?
8. Please explain how the theoretical underpinning of problem-solving treatment fits with the
stress-vulnerability model.
9. What is psychoanalytic psychotherapy?
10. How is CBT related to psychoanalytic psychotherapy?
11. How is CBT related to behaviorism?
12. Beck's cognitive approach and Pavlov's and Skinner's behavioral theory approach come
together to form CBT. What are three major differences between the psychoanalytic approach
(which Beck started with) and CBT
13. One of the components of CBT for Insomnia is sleep restriction. Explain in your own words
how sleep restriction works.
14. Name three positive effects that people often experience after CBT treatment for Insomnia.
15. Psychological help must be offered from a stepped-care approach. What does this mean?
16. What is a matched care approach?
17. What is IAPT?
