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CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What causes psychological problems according to CBT? | - Maladaptive thoughts - Cognitive distortions - Irrational thinking processes that influence emotions and behavior |
| Cognitive distortions: | Unhelpful thinking styles |
| Overgeneralizing: | Drawing sweeping conclusions that are not justified by evidence |
| All or nothing thinking: | Viewing a situation in terms of extremes, such as all positive or all negative |
| Labeling: | Attaching an extreme label to yourself or another based on past behavior or mistakes |
| Personalisation: | Assuming excessive responsibility for events or others behavior |
| Excessive amounts of should/must thoughts | |
| Magnification: | Exaggerating the importance of mistakes |
| Minimization: | Shrinking the importance of accomplishments |
| Thought Records: | Clients record when they experience a particular thought, what situation and physical sensations led to that thought, and the clients response to that thought |
| Behavioral experiments: | Used to test the validity of negative beliefs, thoughts, and predictions in real-world scenarios, client: - Records what they expect to happen in a scenario - Identify how to test this prediction - Record outcome/what they learned |
| Cognitive restructuring: | Examine evidence for and against a thought, examine how helpful/unhelpful the thought is; ABCDEF Model-- helps us understand problems and modify patterns |
| How much evidence is there for the use of CBT? | - Many types of CBT - Equally effective to other well studied forms of psychotherapy - Has one of the strongest evidence bases |
| What are some common features of CBT that other therapies may not use? | - Collaborative empiricism: - Thought records, cognitive restructuring, behavioral experiments - Therapy homework - Time-limited (8-20 sessions) - Goal-oriented - Therapists may teach psychoeducation to client |
| Collaborative empiricism: | Therapist and client work together as a team to treat behaviors by testing beliefs and collecting data |