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Course Transcript Questions The Answer to Question 1 is found in Section 1 of the Course Content... and so on. Select correct answer from below. Place letter on the blank line before the corresponding question. Do not add any spaces.

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.

Course Article Questions The Answer to Question 21 is found in Section 21 of the Course Content... and so on. Select correct answer from below. Place letter on the blank line before the corresponding question.

Questions:

21. In combination with other therapies, such as verbal psychotherapy and medication, what is a critical, but often overlooked, aspect of the treatment of depression?
22. Children from backgrounds of excessive permissiveness suffer from what kinds of problems?
23. What are some techniques the therapist can use with their patient/client to help them feel less overwhelmed?
24. What are motivational changes in depressed adolescents?
25. What individual factors have been reported to protect against the development of depression in high-risk adolescents?
26. What are the primary reasons people break agreements?
27. What happened when monkeys who were raised apart from their mothers with little or no physical contact with other animals, became mothers?
28. What impact do social and cultural forces have on men with depression?
29. What are the symptoms of Postpartum psychosis?
30. How do SSRIs work?
31. Why does Julian Simon believe that there should not be an exclusive focus on distorted perceptions of the depressive's state of affairs?

Answers:

a. There is a sense that masculine depression is a moral failure because men should always be in control of themselves, and men are less likely to seek help in a culture that considers help seeking to be unmanly.
b. Lowered Self Esteem, Delinquency, and Increased Aggression
c. seeking approval at the time; seeking comfort; rebellion; unconsciousness
d. They were either indifferent and withdrew or violent and abusive to their offspring; they were unable to regulate their emotions
e. Plan, Prioritize, Stop assuming unwanted responsibility, Combine activities, Reduce time spent lost in thought, Respect their inner time clock
f. It distracts the clinician's attention from the role of helplessness in disabling the purposeful activities which sufferers might otherwise undertake to change the actual state.
g. Losing touch with reality, having auditory and visual hallucinations, insomnia, feeling agitated, anger, and strange feelings and behaviors.
h. movement
i. High intelligence, emotion-regulation capacities, coping mechanisms, thinking styles, and good quality interpersonal relationships
j. By keeping the serotonin present in high concentrations in the synapses and preventing the reuptake of serotonin back into the sending nerve cell.
k. Paralysis of the will; escapist and avoidance wishes; suicidal wishes; and intensified dependency wishes

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