51 Psychotherapy – 1
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| 1. According to Bion pairing is a therapeutic factor in groups. |  |
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| 2. Interpersonal psychotherapy is beneficial in the treatment of eating disorders. |  |
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| 3. CBT is more effective than waiting list for patients with HIV and depression. |  |
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| 4. CBT is effective in the treatment of delusions. |  |
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| 5. In the treatment of back pain, CBT reduces the intensity of pain, but not the associated physical disability. |  |
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| 6. Cognitive therapy is collaborative in nature. |  |
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| 7. Cognitive therapy uses empirical reasoning. |  |
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| 8. Socratic questioning is used in CBT. |  |
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| 9. Managing enmeshment is part of contingency therapy. |  |
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| 10. Dialectic behavioural therapy includes social skills training. |  |
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| 11. Paradoxical injunction is used in behavioural family therapy. |  |
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| 12. Therapists use introjection in family therapy. |  |
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| 13. In strategic family therapy, direct interventions are used to interrupt unproductive sequences. |  |
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| 14. ‘Group analysis’ means analysis of the behaviour of the group. |  |
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| 15. Group therapy reduces the chances of intense transference reactions towards the therapist. |  |
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| 16. In dynamic group therapy, the therapist encourages vicarious learning. |  |
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| 17. Large group therapy represents less of a threat to the individual than small group therapy. |  |
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| 18. In psychoanalysis, interpretations are given tentatively. |  |
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| 19. The term ‘negative therapeutic reaction’ refers to a worsening of symptoms after some progress in psychotherapy. |  |
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| 20. A good response to a trial interpretation would indicate that a patient is likely to respond to psychotherapy. |  |
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| 21. Transference is irrelevant in supportive psychotherapy. |  |
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| 22. Therapeutic communities are characterized by lack of democratic rules. |  |
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| 23. Therapeutic communities allocate different roles to patients and staff. |  |
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| 24. Transference phenomena do not affect the therapist. |  |
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| 25. If a patient becomes upset and distressed in a session, an appropriate intervention is to extend the length of the session. |  |
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ANSWERS
1. According to Bion pairing is a therapeutic factor in groups.
False: Bion developed the idea of basic assumptions as primitive states of mind automatically generated when people combine in a group. The basic assumptions include pairing (the hope that coupling of individuals could lead to the birth of an individual or idea providing salvation), dependence (expecting the leader to provide solutions) and fight/flight (fleeing or engaging in a battle with others). He suggested that fantasies and emotional drives associated with the basic assumptions interfere with the explicit work task, preventing change and development (Brown & Pedder 1991, p. 122).
