To challenge irrational thinking that is the root of a psychopathology
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How did Ellis extend his ABC model of aquiring psychopatholiges to explain how they are cured?
by adding DEF
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What does the D stand for in ABCDEF?
disputing irational thoughts and beleifs
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What does the E stand for in ABCDEF?
Effects of disputing and effective attitude to life
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What does the F stand for in ABCDEF?
Feelings and emotions that are produced
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why are depressed CBT clients often encouraged to engage in pleasurable activties?
This is often based on the common sense idea that being active leads to rewards that act as an antidote to depression
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How do therapists encourage behavioural activation?
They do this by idnetifying potentially pleeasurable activities and anticipate and deal with cognetive obsticles
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What did Ellis contribute to his theory about CBT in 1994?
a large part of sucsessful therapy was convicing the client of their value as a human being
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How did Ellis's (1994) contribution develop the idea of unconditional positive regard?
If the therapist provides respect and appriciation regardless of what the client does or says this will failtate a change in their beleifs andattitudes
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E1: what evidence did Ellis (2001) provide to suggest that CBT is sucsessful?
He reported a 90% sucsess rate over an average of 27 sessions
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E1: What did Ellis suggest was the reason for some clients were not sucsessful with CBT?
Some clients failed to put their new beleifs into actions
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E1: what further evidence is their that CBT is effective?
In a review by Cuijpers et al (2013) showed that CBT was more effective than not treatment in 75 different studies
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E1: what is the biggest deciding factor in the effectivness of CBT?
Kiyken and Tsivrikos (2009) competence of the the therapist (shown to account for up to 15% of variance)
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E2: under what conditions might CBT be unsuitible according to Elkin et al (1985)?
For people who have high levels of irrational beleifs that are both rigid and resistent to change
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E2: under what conditions might CBT be unsuitible according to Simons et al (1995)?
Where high levels of stress in the individual reflect real stressors in a persons life that therapy cannot resolve
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E2: under what conditions might CBT be unsuitible according to Ellis (2001)?
Some people dont want the direct advice that CBT offers. they may prefer to share their feelings with a therapist without the congetive effort asociated with recovery
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E3: How did Babyak (2000) support the theory behvoiral activation helps releave depression?
Babyak studies 156 people suffering from depression. they were randomly asigned to 3 four-month courses; an arobics class, drug treatment and a combonation of the two.
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E3: what did Babyak (2000) find imeditly after the trial?
clients in all three groups exibited improvments after the 4 month courses finished
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E3: what did Babyak (2000) find 6 months after the trial?
individuals in the exercise condition had a significantly lower relapse rate than those in the medication condition
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E3: what was the biggest predictor of iratication depression relase in Babyak's (2000) study?
continuing to exersise after the 6 months
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E4: What is the advantage of drug therapy as an alternative form of treatment for depression?
they require less effort on the part of the client (the average CBT treatment lasts 27 sessions)
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E4: What are the advantages of using drug therapy in conjunction with CBT?
A stressed client may not be able to focus on the CBT if they didn't have the drug to help them cope better
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E5: How can Rosenzweig's (1936) dodo effect applicable to the treatment of depression?
He argued that there is often very little difference in effectivness between treatments for mental disorders.
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How does Luborsky (1975, 2002) support Rosenzweig's (1936) dodo bird effect?
Out of 100 studies of different methods of treating depression only small differences were found.
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What reason did Luborsky (1975,2002) give for finding few differnces between methods of treatment?
many share common factors, such as sympathy with the client to enhance self esteem
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What is the main aim of CBT?
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To challenge irrational thinking that is the root of a psychopathology
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How did Ellis extend his ABC model of aquiring psychopatholiges to explain how they are cured?
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