Aaron Beck

Question 1

What is Cognitive Therapy?

Answer 1

Goal: Change problematic feelings by challenging patients assumptions

Question 2

What is the Three column method ?

Answer 2

Automatic Thoughts——Cognitive distortion——Realistic, rational, natural thoughts

Question 3

what is “All or nothing thinking?”

Answer 3

Seeing things in black-and-white categories. For example, fall-ing short of perfection means total failure

Question 4

what is “over generalization?”

Answer 4

Seeing one negative event as a confirming instance of a never-ending pattern of defeat.

Question 5

What is Mental Filter?

Answer 5

Dwelling on a single negative detail exclusively

Question 6

Disqualifying the Positive?

Answer 6

Insisting that positive experiences do not count

Question 7

Jumping to Conclusions

Answer 7

. Drawing negative conclusions even without definite facts to sup-port them.

Question 8

Magnification (Catastrophizing) or Minimization

Answer 8

Exaggerating the importance of things(e.g., one’s own slipups) or belittling their importance

Question 9

Emotional reasoning

Answer 9

Assuming that one’s negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things are

Question 10

labelling or Mislabelling

Answer 10

Using negative title when referring to an error

Question 11

Personalization

Answer 11

seeing oneself as the cause of an external event