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Social workers who practice cognitive therapy learn to recognize 10 common patterns of faulty thinking, which are known as cognitive distortions. All-or-Nothing Thinking fails to recognize there may be a middle ground. Characteristics include terms like always, forever, and never. Clients who take an isolated case and assume that all others are the same may be over generalizing. What is another common pattern in faulty thinking?
  1. Manic depressive moods
  2. Disqualifying the positive
  3. Positive influences
  4. Environmental influences
Explanation
Answer - B - 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. Blaming oneself for things that are out of individual’s control is an example of personalization.
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