Mental health lecture 3- treating anxiety
(CBT and beyond) Exam Questions And
Answers
Cognitive theory (Beck, 1976) - - correct answer ✅Basis premise:
dysfunction occurs from an individual's interpretation of events
which in turn influences behaviors important in maintaining
emotional problems (e.g., situation -> negative automatic thoughts
-> reaction/emotion/behaviour)
Negative automatic thoughts and distortions in processing reflect
underlying beliefs and assumption stored in memory, i.e. schemas
Example of this process - - correct answer ✅walking down the
street, friend doesn't notice you (situation)
no one wants to talk to me/likes me (NATs)
depression (reaction)
Negative automatic thoughts (NATs) - - correct answer ✅-verbal
-image
-involuntary, rapid, negative
Unhelpful thinking styles - - correct answer ✅- Overgeneralisation
(applying a conclusion to a range of situations based on isolated
evidence)
, Mental health lecture 3- treating anxiety
(CBT and beyond) Exam Questions And
Answers
- Magnification or minimisation (enlarging/reducing the importance
of events)
- Mind reading (assuming people are reacting negatively to you
despite a ack of evidence for this)
- Arbitrary inference (drawing a conclusion without sufficient
evidence)
Schemas - - correct answer ✅Concepts or mental frameworks that
organize and interpret information.
Often specific to a disorder (e.g., anxiety: assumptions and beliefs
about danger and lack of ability to cope)
Can influence our NATs, bias information processing
Can be formed through early learning experiences
Behaviour - - correct answer ✅what we do is important in
maintaining or changing physiological states
FOR EXAMPLE:
when walking down a street and your friend doesn't see you, you
can decide to either approach them or pretend not to see them as
well, the first behaviour would lead to the NATs lessening, and the
latter exacerbates/maintains the anxiety/depression/NATs
(CBT and beyond) Exam Questions And
Answers
Cognitive theory (Beck, 1976) - - correct answer ✅Basis premise:
dysfunction occurs from an individual's interpretation of events
which in turn influences behaviors important in maintaining
emotional problems (e.g., situation -> negative automatic thoughts
-> reaction/emotion/behaviour)
Negative automatic thoughts and distortions in processing reflect
underlying beliefs and assumption stored in memory, i.e. schemas
Example of this process - - correct answer ✅walking down the
street, friend doesn't notice you (situation)
no one wants to talk to me/likes me (NATs)
depression (reaction)
Negative automatic thoughts (NATs) - - correct answer ✅-verbal
-image
-involuntary, rapid, negative
Unhelpful thinking styles - - correct answer ✅- Overgeneralisation
(applying a conclusion to a range of situations based on isolated
evidence)
, Mental health lecture 3- treating anxiety
(CBT and beyond) Exam Questions And
Answers
- Magnification or minimisation (enlarging/reducing the importance
of events)
- Mind reading (assuming people are reacting negatively to you
despite a ack of evidence for this)
- Arbitrary inference (drawing a conclusion without sufficient
evidence)
Schemas - - correct answer ✅Concepts or mental frameworks that
organize and interpret information.
Often specific to a disorder (e.g., anxiety: assumptions and beliefs
about danger and lack of ability to cope)
Can influence our NATs, bias information processing
Can be formed through early learning experiences
Behaviour - - correct answer ✅what we do is important in
maintaining or changing physiological states
FOR EXAMPLE:
when walking down a street and your friend doesn't see you, you
can decide to either approach them or pretend not to see them as
well, the first behaviour would lead to the NATs lessening, and the
latter exacerbates/maintains the anxiety/depression/NATs
