Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive therapy can be described as all but which of the following?

• Anti-deterministic

• Nondirective

• Educational

• Empirically based

Beck suggests that core beliefs are critical to the development of one’s thinking processes, but goes on to suggest that it is usually important to initially focus on _________ .

• automatic thoughts

• intermediate beliefs

• irrational beliefs

• rules and assumptions

According to Beck, a _________________can be defined as a structure for screening, coding and evaluating the stimuli that impinge on the organism.

• cognitive therapist

• schema

• dysfunctional upbringing

• compensatory belief

The use of ____________________questioning challenges the client to think rationally about his or her situation in order to illuminate alternative ways of understanding predicaments.

• intrusive

• socratic

• rational

• cognitive

Beck’s cognitive model includes all but which of the following:

• Irrational thoughts

• Core beliefs

• Intermediate beliefs

• Automatic thoughts

• Automatic images