Chapter 10- Cognitive Behavior Therapy Flashcards
Rational emotive behavior therapy
People contribute to their own psychological problems, as well as specific symptoms. Based on the assumption that cognitions, emotions, and behaviors interact significantly and have a reciprocal cause and effect
Therapeutic goal
Clients minimizing their emotional disturbances and self-defeating behavior by acquiring a more realistic, workable, and compassionate philosophy of life
Therapist’s function and role
Show clients how they have incorpated irrational absolutes in her life. Then they demonstrate how clients are keeping their emotional disturbances active by continuing to think illogically. The 3rd step is to help clients change their thinking and minimize irrational ideas. 4th step encourage clients to develop a rational philosophy of life
Clients experience in therapy
Focused on here-and-now and clients’ ability to change patterns of thing and emotions that they constructed earlier
Relationship between therapist and client
Warm relationship is not required-respectful relationship is recommended
Practice of Rational Emotive Therapy
Multimodal and integrative. (Cognitive, emotive, behavioral, and interpersonal therapies)
Cognitive Methods
Disputing irrational beliefs, doing cognitive homework, biobliotherapy, changing one’s language, psychoeducational methods
Emotive Therapies
Rational emotive imagery, humor, role playing, shame-attacking exercises
Rational Emotive Imagery
Form of intense mental practice designed to establish new emotional patterns in place of disruptive ones by thinking in healthy ways
Shame-attacking exercises
Can refuse to feel ashamed by telling ourselves that it is not catastrophic if someone thinks we are foolish
Beck’s Cognitive Therapy
Specificity of Ct allows evidence-based therapists to link assessment, conceptualization and treatment strategies. Depression could result from negative thinking but it could also be precipitated by genetic, neurobiological, or environmental changes
Negative Cognitive Triad
Negative views of the self(self-criticism), the world(pessimism) and the future(hopelessness). This maintained depression, even when negative thoughts were not the original cause of an episode of depression
Generic cognitive model
Links psychobiological difficulties with adaptive human responses. “Has the potential to be the only empirically supported general theory of psychopathology
Common cognitive distortions
Arbitrary inferences, selective abstraction, over generalizations, magnification and minimization, personalization, labeling and mislabeling, dichotomous thinking
basic principles of CT
Perceives psychological problems as an exaggeration of adaptive responses resulting from commonplace cognitive distortions
Collaborative Empiricism
Through a reflecting questioning process, the cognitive therapist collaborates with clients in testing the validity of their cognitions
Client-Therapist relationship
Beck believes that effective therapists must combine empathy and sensitivity with technical competence
Treatment approaches
Thought records
Automatic thoughts
Action plan
Padesky’s strengths-based cognitive behavior therapy
An active incorporation of client strengths encourages clients to engage more fully in therapy and often provides avenues for change that would be missed
Basic principle of SB-CBT
Therapists should be knowledgable about evidence-based approaches pertaining to client issues discussed in therapy, clients are asked to make observations and describe the details of their life experiences so what is developed in therapy basses in the real data of clients’ live and therapists and clients collaborate in testing beliefs and experimenting with new behaviors
Strengths of SB-CBT
Add-on for classic CBT, 4-step model to build resilience and other positive qualities, the new paradigm of chronic difficulties and personality disorders
Meichenbaum’s cognitive behavior modification
focuses on changing the client’s self-talk. Clients must notice how they think, feel, and behave and the impact they have on others
How behavior changes
- Self-observation
- Starting a new internal dialogue
- Learning new skills
Stress inoculation training
Individuals are given opportunities to deal with relatively mild stress stimuli in successful ways, and they gradually develop a tolerance for stronger stimuli. Based on the assumption that we can affect our ability to cope with stress by modifying our beliefs and self-statements
Relapse prevention
procedures for dealing with the inevitable setbacks clients are likely to experience as they apply what they are learning to daily life