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Questions: 1. What are Freud's states of ambivalence? 2. What are principles in client decision making? 3. How does the Rubber Band technique support the Zen technique? 4. What would be a reason for using SQ3R and the Egg Timer? 5. What is the concept behind the ABC Technique? 6. What are the steps in changing your depressed adult or child clients' focus from negative to positive? 7.What do the main targets of Cognitive Therapy include and what model is useful to visualize the trend of a downward mood? 8. What are the first steps of the KISS technique 9. What should you do to avoid clients feeling overwhelmed and overburdened, and also to be able to see progress? 10. What is a benefit derived from a client's time management study? 11. What are purposes for a problem horoscope? 12. What basic rules govern the application of the quantity principle? 13. What are principles that will help with brainstorming? 14. What information enables the dysthymic child or adult to objectively view the various contexts and viewpoints in the situation they are defining as a problem? 15. What are the criteria to assist your dysthymic client to push through their inactivity and evaluate alternatives? 16. What is the benefit of avoiding situations that induce negative self-comparisons? 17. What can be more important than your client’s mood, which is created by their perception of events? 18. What are the steps in the Self-Comparisons Analysis table? 19. Rather than suggesting that your client argue with you in your role of clinician, what role might you assume? 20. What is a perception problem that reversed role-playing may create?

Answers: a. Cognitive therapy targets the conceptual and behavioral aspects of the disorder. The negative mudslide is a model to visualize a downward mood b. the therapist is actually sarcastically mimicking the client's beliefs c. It snaps your depressed client into the present by stopping their ruminations and obsessive thoughts d. uninvited thought, casual event, self-comparison, analysis, response, and behavior you wish to change e. to encourage your client to "Stop and Think” before acting compulsively and to help your client realize problems do exist f. To decrease concentration problems experienced by dysthymic children and adults g. Provide pain-free time h. generate as many responses as possible and combine and improve responses to make additional new solution-responses i. a specific, attainable goal and keep it simple j. Emotional oscillation between love and hate; voluntary inability to decide on an action; and intellectual belief in contradictory propositions k. the quantity principle; the deferment-of-judgment principle; and the strategy-tactics procedure. l. realistic cognitions, increased hope, which increases self-esteem, resulting in more appropriate behaviors, and your client begins to interact in a positively reinforcing system m. a hypothetical friend or colleague n. your client may begin to see some activities they can minimize in order to have time for things that will help them feel better. o. an action focus; the absolute certainty myth; unanticipated consequences; and "buyers" remorse p. getting positive feelings from memories and positive feelings from expectations of future events q. Goal Achievement, Implementation, Personal Consequences, Social Consequences, Short Term Consequences, Long Term Consequences r. a stressful or upsetting event; spotting an unproductive thought while thinking it; an unsettling or painful emotional state s. Answering the Five W's and an H question. t. Don't schedule more than five tasks.

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Questions: 1. Freud’s states of ambivalence include emotional oscillation between love and hate, voluntary inability to decide on an action, and intellectual belief in contradictory propositions. 2. Principles in client decision making include an action focus, the absolute certainty myth, unanticipated consequences, and “buyers” remorse. 3. The Rubber Band technique supports the Zen technique by snapping your depressed client into the present and stopping ruminations and obsessive thoughts. 4. A reason for using SQ3R and the Egg Timer is to decrease concentration problems experienced by dysthymic children and adults. 5. The concept behind the ABC Technique includes a stressful or upsetting event, spotting an unproductive thought while thinking it, and an unsettling or painful emotional state. 6. Steps in changing your depressed adult or child client’s focus from negative to positive include realistic cognitions, increased hope which increases self-esteem, resulting in more appropriate behaviors, and interaction in a positively reinforcing system. 7. Cognitive therapy targets the conceptual and behavioral aspects of the disorder, and the negative mudslide is a model useful to visualize a downward mood. 8. The first steps of the KISS technique are setting a specific, attainable goal and keeping it simple. 9. To avoid clients feeling overwhelmed and overburdened and to help them see progress, don’t schedule more than five tasks. 10. A benefit derived from a client’s time management study is that the client may begin to see activities they can minimize in order to have time for things that help them feel better. 11. Purposes for a problem horoscope include encouraging your client to “Stop and Think” before acting compulsively and helping the client realize problems do exist. 12. The basic rules governing the application of the quantity principle are the quantity principle, the deferment-of-judgment principle, and the strategy-tactics procedure. 13. Principles that will help with brainstorming include generating as many responses as possible and combining and improving responses to make additional new solution-responses. 14. Answering the Five W’s and an H question enables the dysthymic child or adult to objectively view the various contexts and viewpoints in a situation they define as a problem. 15. The criteria to assist a dysthymic client in pushing through inactivity and evaluating alternatives include Goal Achievement, Implementation, Personal Consequences, Social Consequences, Short Term Consequences, and Long Term Consequences. 16. A benefit of avoiding situations that induce negative self-comparisons is providing pain-free time. 17. Getting positive feelings from memories and positive feelings from expectations of future events can be more important than the client’s mood created by perceptions of events. 18. The steps in the Self-Comparisons Analysis table are uninvited thought, casual event, self-comparison, analysis, response, and behavior you wish to change. 19. Rather than suggesting the client argue with the clinician, the clinician might assume the role of a hypothetical friend or colleague. 20. A perception problem reversed role-playing may create is that the therapist is actually sarcastically mimicking the client’s beliefs. 21. In combination with other therapies such as verbal psychotherapy and medication, movement is a critical but often overlooked aspect of the treatment of depression. 22. Children from backgrounds of excessive permissiveness often suffer from lowered self-esteem, delinquency, and increased aggression. 23. Techniques therapists can use to help clients feel less overwhelmed include planning, prioritizing, stopping assumptions of unwanted responsibility, combining activities, reducing time lost in thought, and respecting their inner time clock. 24. Motivational changes in depressed adolescents include paralysis of the will, escapist and avoidance wishes, suicidal wishes, and intensified dependency wishes. 25. Individual factors reported to protect against the development of depression in high-risk adolescents include high intelligence, emotion-regulation capacities, coping mechanisms, thinking styles, and good quality interpersonal relationships. 26. The primary reasons people break agreements include seeking approval at the time, seeking comfort, rebellion, and unconsciousness. 27. When monkeys raised apart from their mothers with little or no physical contact became mothers, they were either indifferent and withdrawn or violent and abusive toward their offspring and unable to regulate emotions. 28. Social and cultural forces impact men with depression because masculine depression is often viewed as a moral failure and help-seeking is considered unmanly. 29. Symptoms of postpartum psychosis include losing touch with reality, auditory and visual hallucinations, insomnia, agitation, anger, and strange feelings and behaviors. 30. SSRIs work by keeping serotonin present in high concentrations in the synapses and preventing the reuptake of serotonin back into the sending nerve cell. 31. Julian Simon believed there should not be an exclusive focus on distorted perceptions because it distracts clinicians from the role helplessness plays in disabling purposeful activities that could change the client’s actual state.

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