NSG 526 EXAM 2 FINAL PAPER EXAM
REVIEW EXAM STUDY SHEET 2026
ALREADY PASSED GRADED A+.
◍ 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
◍ the technique of "Information Giver".. Answer: During group
members sharing methods they personally use for dealing with
problems
◍ 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.
◍ 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.
◍ Mileu. Answer: Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's
social, economic, and cultural status.
,◍ 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.
◍ Beck. Answer: Beck developed the cognitive model of
DEPRESSION and the concept that cognitive processing distortions
underlie psychological disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
◍ According to BECK depression can be understood via. Answer: 1)
cognitive errors, and the
2) cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of SELF, a tendency toward
interpreting EXPERIENCES/WORLD in a negative manner, and
holding negative views of the FUTURE).
3. Schemas
◍ Beck's Cognitive Therapy suggests. Answer: Depression is
triggered when dysfunctional schemas are activated and give rise to
negative cognitions and patterns of information processing that
precipitate depression
◍ Albert Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). Answer: RET
(Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of CBT
,◍ RET (albert ellis). Answer: is a psychotherapeutic approach that
proposes that unrealistic and irrational beliefs cause many emotional
problems.
The purpose of RET is to identify an irrational belief and dispute it
through active, philosophical, confrontational therapy.
◍ RET assumption (albert ellis). 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).
◍ Operant conditioning. Answer: voluntary behaviors are learned
through consequences, and behavioral responses are elicited through
reinforcement, which causes a behavior to occur more frequently.
Positive reinforcement- getting a gift, or negative reinforcement-
removal of objectionable' or aversive stimulus
◍ 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 principles have shown to be successful in
altering targeted behaviors. Programmed learning and token
economies represent extensions of Skinner's thoughts on learning.
Behavioral methods are particularly effective with children,
, adolescents, and individuals with many forms of chronic mental
illness.
◍ Universality (Yalom). Answer: 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. knowing ones experience is not unique
◍ Altruism (Yalom). Answer: 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 interpersonal skills.
The act of one member helping another putting others need before
their own and learning that there is value in giving to others.
Freud believed it was a major factor in establishing group cohesion
and community feeling.
◍ Instillation of hope (Yalom). Answer: In a mixed group that has
members at various stages of development or recovery, a member can
be inspired and encouraged by another member who has overcome
the problems with which they are still struggling.
◍ Imparting of information (Yalom). Answer: learning factual
information from other members, for example about tmt or about
access to services
REVIEW EXAM STUDY SHEET 2026
ALREADY PASSED GRADED A+.
◍ 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
◍ the technique of "Information Giver".. Answer: During group
members sharing methods they personally use for dealing with
problems
◍ 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.
◍ 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.
◍ Mileu. Answer: Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's
social, economic, and cultural status.
,◍ 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.
◍ Beck. Answer: Beck developed the cognitive model of
DEPRESSION and the concept that cognitive processing distortions
underlie psychological disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
◍ According to BECK depression can be understood via. Answer: 1)
cognitive errors, and the
2) cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of SELF, a tendency toward
interpreting EXPERIENCES/WORLD in a negative manner, and
holding negative views of the FUTURE).
3. Schemas
◍ Beck's Cognitive Therapy suggests. Answer: Depression is
triggered when dysfunctional schemas are activated and give rise to
negative cognitions and patterns of information processing that
precipitate depression
◍ Albert Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). Answer: RET
(Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of CBT
,◍ RET (albert ellis). Answer: is a psychotherapeutic approach that
proposes that unrealistic and irrational beliefs cause many emotional
problems.
The purpose of RET is to identify an irrational belief and dispute it
through active, philosophical, confrontational therapy.
◍ RET assumption (albert ellis). 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).
◍ Operant conditioning. Answer: voluntary behaviors are learned
through consequences, and behavioral responses are elicited through
reinforcement, which causes a behavior to occur more frequently.
Positive reinforcement- getting a gift, or negative reinforcement-
removal of objectionable' or aversive stimulus
◍ 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 principles have shown to be successful in
altering targeted behaviors. Programmed learning and token
economies represent extensions of Skinner's thoughts on learning.
Behavioral methods are particularly effective with children,
, adolescents, and individuals with many forms of chronic mental
illness.
◍ Universality (Yalom). Answer: 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. knowing ones experience is not unique
◍ Altruism (Yalom). Answer: 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 interpersonal skills.
The act of one member helping another putting others need before
their own and learning that there is value in giving to others.
Freud believed it was a major factor in establishing group cohesion
and community feeling.
◍ Instillation of hope (Yalom). Answer: In a mixed group that has
members at various stages of development or recovery, a member can
be inspired and encouraged by another member who has overcome
the problems with which they are still struggling.
◍ Imparting of information (Yalom). Answer: learning factual
information from other members, for example about tmt or about
access to services
