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Disqualifying the positive is a pattern recognized in cognitive therapy that treats positive events like they do not really count. Other patterns include emotional reasoning, mental filtering, jumping to conclusions, magnification, and minimization. All-or-nothing thinking fails to recognize there may be a middle ground. Characteristics include terms like:
  1. Sometimes, frequently, always
  2. Always, forever, never
  3. Frequently, never, sometimes
  4. None of the above
Explanation
Answer - B - Social workers who practice cognitive therapy learn to recognize ten common patterns of faulty thinking, which are known as cognitive distortions. Clients who take an isolated case and assume that all others are the same may be over generalizing.
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