Anxiety Disorders & CBT Protocols Flashcards
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Which cognitive distortion involves predicting a negative outcome without sufficient evidence, commonly seen in anxiety disorders?
Answer: Fortune-telling
Fortune-telling is the distortion of predicting a negative future outcome as if it were fact, a hallmark of anxious thinking.
In CBT for Panic Disorder, interoceptive exposure involves:
Answer: Deliberately inducing feared bodily sensations in a safe setting
Interoceptive exposure deliberately induces feared physical sensations (e.g., dizziness, racing heart) to reduce fear of those sensations.
A CBT therapist helping a client with Social Anxiety Disorder addresses 'post-event processing.' This refers to:
Answer: Ruminating on perceived social failures after an interaction
Post-event processing is the tendency to ruminate on social situations after they occur, focusing on perceived flaws or mistakes, which maintains social anxiety.
Which model best explains the development and maintenance of OCD according to CBT?
Answer: Misappraisal of intrusive thoughts as meaningful and requiring action
The cognitive model of OCD holds that obsessions are maintained by misappraising normal intrusive thoughts as highly significant or dangerous.
In treating PTSD with CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy), 'stuck points' refer to:
Answer: Maladaptive beliefs that interfere with natural trauma recovery
Stuck points are maladaptive cognitions—such as self-blame or world-danger beliefs—that prevent the natural processing and integration of a traumatic event.
Which anxiety disorder is primarily characterized by excessive worry about multiple life domains lasting at least 6 months?
Answer: Generalized Anxiety Disorder
GAD is defined by persistent, excessive, uncontrollable worry across multiple domains (health, work, relationships) for at least 6 months.
A therapist uses 'behavioral experiments' in CBT for anxiety. The primary purpose is to:
Answer: Test the validity of anxious predictions through direct experience
Behavioral experiments allow clients to test their anxious predictions empirically, providing direct disconfirmatory evidence against maladaptive beliefs.