CBT Study Guide 2026
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📋 CBT Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CBT Topics to Study (69)
✍️ Sample CBT Questions & Answers
1. Which mindfulness practice involves intentionally observing thoughts without judgment, allowing them to pass like clouds in the sky?
Defusion (cognitive defusion) is the ACT technique of observing thoughts as passing mental events rather than literal truths, often using metaphors like clouds or leaves on a stream.
2. CBT competency standards specify that psychoeducation about the cognitive model should be delivered:
Effective CBT psychoeducation uses the client's own experiences to make the cognitive model personally meaningful rather than presenting it in an abstract lecture format.
3. Under CBT professional standards, a 'thought record' is best used to help the client:
Thought records are structured tools for catching automatic thoughts, evaluating their accuracy, and generating more balanced alternative perspectives.
4. What role do childhood experiences play in belief formation?
Core beliefs typically form during childhood through interactions with caregivers, peers, and significant life events, creating templates for how individuals view themselves, others, and the world.
5. In CBT, the therapeutic relationship is best described as:
CBT's collaborative empiricism means therapist and client function as co-investigators, jointly testing the validity of beliefs rather than the therapist prescribing conclusions.
6. A client resists updating a harmful belief despite clear evidence against it. This phenomenon is best described as:
Belief perseverance is the tendency to maintain a belief even when confronted with contradicting evidence.
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