NURS 661 Exam 2 questions with verified answers
ABC Theory Ans✓✓✓ Activating event -> Belief -> Consequence (client's
emotional reactions and behavior)
Dispute: examine belief
Effect: alternative thinking
Analytic Group Ans✓✓✓ -8 or fewer people
-Goals: tackles relational roles that people take on in their lives and makes the
unconscious conflicts conscious for examination
-Focuses on influences of the past on the current personality functioning
-Transference allows for the uncovered past conflict to be the core work
Analytic Group Therapy Roles Ans✓✓✓ -Therapist: conductor, participate as
observer
-Members: must be honest and open to learn how to become own therapist
Androgynous Groups Ans✓✓✓ Blend of male and females in group
-Gender is focus
Blocking Ans✓✓✓ stop counterproductive behaviors to protect group process
borderline personality disorder therapy Ans✓✓✓ -Dialectal behavioral therapy
and Expressive psychodynamic
Choice Theory Ans✓✓✓ -View that people are internally motivated to choice
behavior in life
, -Behavior is purposeful and originates within the individual
-Humans have 5 basic needs: survival, love, power, independence, fun
Choice/Reality Therapy Pros & Cons Ans✓✓✓ -Pros: increase sense of inner
control, short term
-Con: focuses more on experiences rather than feelings, minority groups may not
be taken into consideration
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Ans✓✓✓ Goal: help members evaluate thinking
and how it influences behaviors
-Change negative thoughts to positive
-Leader functions as teacher of coping skills
cognitive restructuring Ans✓✓✓ a therapeutic approach that teaches clients to
question the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to
negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic and
positive beliefs
cognitive restructuring Ans✓✓✓ a therapeutic approach that teaches clients to
question the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to
negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic and
positive beliefs
Contemporary Reality Therapy Ans✓✓✓ -Answer the question: what are you
doing
-Focuses on their actions and what they have been doing
-Role of meaningful relationships in fostering emotional health
ABC Theory Ans✓✓✓ Activating event -> Belief -> Consequence (client's
emotional reactions and behavior)
Dispute: examine belief
Effect: alternative thinking
Analytic Group Ans✓✓✓ -8 or fewer people
-Goals: tackles relational roles that people take on in their lives and makes the
unconscious conflicts conscious for examination
-Focuses on influences of the past on the current personality functioning
-Transference allows for the uncovered past conflict to be the core work
Analytic Group Therapy Roles Ans✓✓✓ -Therapist: conductor, participate as
observer
-Members: must be honest and open to learn how to become own therapist
Androgynous Groups Ans✓✓✓ Blend of male and females in group
-Gender is focus
Blocking Ans✓✓✓ stop counterproductive behaviors to protect group process
borderline personality disorder therapy Ans✓✓✓ -Dialectal behavioral therapy
and Expressive psychodynamic
Choice Theory Ans✓✓✓ -View that people are internally motivated to choice
behavior in life
, -Behavior is purposeful and originates within the individual
-Humans have 5 basic needs: survival, love, power, independence, fun
Choice/Reality Therapy Pros & Cons Ans✓✓✓ -Pros: increase sense of inner
control, short term
-Con: focuses more on experiences rather than feelings, minority groups may not
be taken into consideration
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Ans✓✓✓ Goal: help members evaluate thinking
and how it influences behaviors
-Change negative thoughts to positive
-Leader functions as teacher of coping skills
cognitive restructuring Ans✓✓✓ a therapeutic approach that teaches clients to
question the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to
negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic and
positive beliefs
cognitive restructuring Ans✓✓✓ a therapeutic approach that teaches clients to
question the automatic beliefs, assumptions, and predictions that often lead to
negative emotions and to replace negative thinking with more realistic and
positive beliefs
Contemporary Reality Therapy Ans✓✓✓ -Answer the question: what are you
doing
-Focuses on their actions and what they have been doing
-Role of meaningful relationships in fostering emotional health
