Assessment (Bannink)

19 important questions on Assessment (Bannink)

What is assessed in the assessment-stage? (6)

1. Goals
2. Strengths and resources
3. Motivation to change
4. Progression
5. Hope
6. Confidence

What is the aim of a case conceptualization?

It actively identifies and incorporates clients' strengths in order to apply existing client resources to presenting issues and to strengthen client awareness and use of strengths over time.

What do people do who cope resiliently?

They tend to construe events positively, including objectively challenging events.
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What are the advantages of setting goals? (3)

1. Emphasizes the possibility of change
2. Help to impose structure on treatment
3. Provides an opportunity for evaluation

How should goals be phrased? (2)

1. They should be stated in positive terms
2. They should be specific and detailed

What are the different routes in the fantasy realization theory? (2)

1. One leads to expectancy-based goal commitment
2. To lead to goal commitment independent of expectations

What is mental contrasting in the fantasy realization theory?

First, imagine the desired future and then reflect on the respective negative reality, emphasizing the necessity to change the present reality to achieve the desired future.

What is reverse mental contrasting in the fantasy realization theory?

First elaborating on the negative reality followed by an elaboration of the desired future thwarts the construal of the present standing in the way of the future and thus fails to elicit goal commitment congruent with expectations of success.

What is the difference between approach and avoidance motivation?

The energy of behavior being put toward positive stimuli vs. the energy of behavior away from negative stimuli. The first facilitates thriving while the latter facilitates survival.

Why is the pursuit of approach goals more manageable?

Because the discrepancy between a current state and the desired state is being diminished. The progress is more tangible and easier to monitor.

What might modulate how an individual tends to pursue a goal?

Approach-avoidance motivation

Why might it be worthwhile to change from cognitions linked to avoidance to cognitions linked to approach?

Because approach motives and goals are associated with better results and more well-being.

What is important in the diagnostic process within PCBT? (4)

1. One way is to translate all problem descriptions into aspects of strengths and solutions
2. (Suspicion) of severe psychiatric disorders justifies thorough diagnosis because of possible organic pathology
3. Diagnosis is an ill-advised starting point for psychotherapy (stepped diagnosis)
4. Emphasize that the client is not his diagnosis

What kind of questions can be used in assessing strengths and resources? (5)

1. Using the Values in Action Signature Strengths
2. Exception-finding questions (also gives possibilities for compliments)
3. Scaling questions
4. Competence transference (ask about competencies in other areas of life)
5. Invite them to relate their success stories (how did you do/decide/manage that?)

What is known about the effect of scheduling an appointment?

That 15-66% of the clients experience positive pre-treatment gains.

When will it be easier to choose the next step forwards for clients?

When they have a clear sense of what they want to achieve and when they have already been able to achieve to some extent what they want

What is the difference between decisions regarding behavioral initiation and behavioral maintenance?

The first depends on favorable expectations regarding future outcomes, whereas the latter depends on perceived satisfaction with received outcomes. People find it more motivating to be partly finished with a longer journey rather than at the starting gate of a shorter one.

What is the task of the therapist in PCBT regarding the motivation for the change?

To assist clients to make changes and help them to leave the ditches they dug themselves into.

How can a thought record be used in PCBT?

To help clients understand which thoughts trigger their desired behavior, observe positive changes, and monitor exceptions of the problem.

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