Treatment Planning & Goal Setting Flashcards
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Relapse prevention planning in CBT is BEST characterized as:
Answer: Identifying high-risk situations and rehearsing coping strategies to maintain gains
Relapse prevention in CBT systematically identifies future risk triggers and rehearses skills so clients can manage setbacks independently.
When establishing a treatment plan hierarchy, 'crisis behaviors' such as suicidality are placed:
Answer: First, as the immediate priority before other goals
Crisis and safety issues always take priority in CBT treatment planning because they must be stabilized before other therapeutic work can proceed effectively.
A CBT therapist uses session-by-session symptom scores to inform the treatment plan. This practice is an example of:
Answer: Routine outcome monitoring (ROM)
Routine outcome monitoring (ROM) involves systematically tracking symptom scores each session to guide evidence-based adjustments to the treatment plan.
Which scenario BEST illustrates 'goal drift' in CBT treatment planning?
Answer: Sessions consistently shift to unrelated topics, losing focus on the original treatment targets
Goal drift occurs when session content repeatedly diverges from planned treatment targets, diluting the structured nature of CBT.
In a CBT plan for health anxiety (illness anxiety disorder), which goal formulation is MOST appropriate?
Answer: Reduce reassurance-seeking behavior from 10+ times/day to 1 time/day within 10 weeks
Targeting specific reassurance-seeking frequency with a measurable baseline and endpoint directly addresses the maintaining behavior of health anxiety.
Which of the following BEST describes the transdiagnostic approach to CBT treatment planning?
Answer: Core maintaining processes (e.g., avoidance, rumination) are targeted across multiple disorders simultaneously
Transdiagnostic CBT targets shared maintaining processes like avoidance and cognitive misappraisal, making it efficient when comorbidities are present.
A client achieves their treatment goal of reducing GAD worry to under 30 minutes/day but reports feeling 'lost without something to work on.' The CBT response is to:
Answer: Collaboratively identify new goals (e.g., values-based activities, relapse prevention) or plan a structured termination
When initial goals are met, CBT naturally transitions to new growth-oriented goals or a structured termination plan to consolidate gains.