WILKES NSG 526 Exam 2 Questions with Correct Answers
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1. Group Therapy primary purpose
Answer> The primary purpose of group therapy is to facilitate changes by the
patient to address identified problems.
2. A technique for dealing with an over talkative client and silence from other
participants in a group during therapy
Answer> make an observation about the group's silence and invite the others to
comment
3. the technique of "Information Giver".
Answer> During group members sharing methods they personally use for dealing
with problems
4. CBT
Answer> consists of active questioning, homework assignments, and dream survey.
The therapist helps the patient consider personal ideas and beliefs in order to
increase the patient's realization about how thoughts influence behaviors.
5. Attachment
Answer> Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal relationships between
,humans. A child needs to form a relationship between at least one primary caregiver.
6. Mileu
Answer> Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social, economic, and
cultural status.
7. Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference
Answer> Western medicine focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM
focuses on mind-body interactions.
8. Beck
Answer> Beck developed the cognitive model of depression and the concept that
cognitive processing distortions underlie psychological disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
9. depression can be understood via schemas
Answer> Beck;
cognitive errors, and the cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of self, tendency toward
interpreting experiences in a negative manner, and holding negative views of the
future).
10. Beck assumption
Answer> Distorted thinking contributes to and maintains bheavior (symptoms)
11. Ellis
, Answer> RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of cbt
12. ret
Answer> unrealistic and irrational beliefs cause many emotional problems. The
pur- pose of RET is to identify an irrational belief and dispute it through active,
philosoph- ical, confrontational therapy.
13. RET assumption
Answer> People make themselves sick anytime they escalate a desire or preference
into a demand or absolute must. (People become who they become based on their
beliefs).
14. Skinner
Answer> operant conditioning
15. Operant conditioning
Answer> voluntary behaviors are learned through consequences, and behavioral
responses are elicited through reinforcement, which causes a be-
havior to occur more frequently. Positive reinforcement- getting a gift, or negative
reinforcement- removal of objectionable' or aversive stimulus
16. Skinner
Answer> Absence of reinforcement, or extinction, also decreases behavior by
withholding a reward that has become habitual. Teachers employ this strategy in the
, classroom when they ignore acting-out behavior that had previously been rewarded
by more attention.
Skinner's behavior model provides a concrete method for modifying or replacing
behaviors. Behavior management and modification programs based on his prin-
ciples have shown to be successful in altering targeted behaviors. Programmed
learning and token economies represent extensions of Skinner's thoughts on learn-
ing. Behavioral methods are particularly effective with children, adolescents, and
individuals with many forms of chronic mental illness.
17. Universality
Answer> Yaslom
The recognition of shared experiences and feelings among group members and
that these may be widespread or universal human concerns, serves to remove a
group member's sense of isolation, validate their experiences, and raise self-
esteem.
18. Altruism
Answer> Yaslom
The group is a place where members can help each other, and the experience of
being able to give something to another person can lift
the member's self esteem and help develop more adaptive coping styles and
Pass with Confidence
1. Group Therapy primary purpose
Answer> The primary purpose of group therapy is to facilitate changes by the
patient to address identified problems.
2. A technique for dealing with an over talkative client and silence from other
participants in a group during therapy
Answer> make an observation about the group's silence and invite the others to
comment
3. the technique of "Information Giver".
Answer> During group members sharing methods they personally use for dealing
with problems
4. CBT
Answer> consists of active questioning, homework assignments, and dream survey.
The therapist helps the patient consider personal ideas and beliefs in order to
increase the patient's realization about how thoughts influence behaviors.
5. Attachment
Answer> Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal relationships between
,humans. A child needs to form a relationship between at least one primary caregiver.
6. Mileu
Answer> Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social, economic, and
cultural status.
7. Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference
Answer> Western medicine focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM
focuses on mind-body interactions.
8. Beck
Answer> Beck developed the cognitive model of depression and the concept that
cognitive processing distortions underlie psychological disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
9. depression can be understood via schemas
Answer> Beck;
cognitive errors, and the cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of self, tendency toward
interpreting experiences in a negative manner, and holding negative views of the
future).
10. Beck assumption
Answer> Distorted thinking contributes to and maintains bheavior (symptoms)
11. Ellis
, Answer> RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of cbt
12. ret
Answer> unrealistic and irrational beliefs cause many emotional problems. The
pur- pose of RET is to identify an irrational belief and dispute it through active,
philosoph- ical, confrontational therapy.
13. RET assumption
Answer> People make themselves sick anytime they escalate a desire or preference
into a demand or absolute must. (People become who they become based on their
beliefs).
14. Skinner
Answer> operant conditioning
15. Operant conditioning
Answer> voluntary behaviors are learned through consequences, and behavioral
responses are elicited through reinforcement, which causes a be-
havior to occur more frequently. Positive reinforcement- getting a gift, or negative
reinforcement- removal of objectionable' or aversive stimulus
16. Skinner
Answer> Absence of reinforcement, or extinction, also decreases behavior by
withholding a reward that has become habitual. Teachers employ this strategy in the
, classroom when they ignore acting-out behavior that had previously been rewarded
by more attention.
Skinner's behavior model provides a concrete method for modifying or replacing
behaviors. Behavior management and modification programs based on his prin-
ciples have shown to be successful in altering targeted behaviors. Programmed
learning and token economies represent extensions of Skinner's thoughts on learn-
ing. Behavioral methods are particularly effective with children, adolescents, and
individuals with many forms of chronic mental illness.
17. Universality
Answer> Yaslom
The recognition of shared experiences and feelings among group members and
that these may be widespread or universal human concerns, serves to remove a
group member's sense of isolation, validate their experiences, and raise self-
esteem.
18. Altruism
Answer> Yaslom
The group is a place where members can help each other, and the experience of
being able to give something to another person can lift
the member's self esteem and help develop more adaptive coping styles and
