Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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What does CBT do? (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

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Attempts to modify the patterns of thinking that are believed to contribute to a patient’s problems, as well as, employing principles of conditioning/learning to modify problem thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (eliminate precursor thoughts/antecedents

ie: Classical Conditioning & Observational Learning

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EST stands for?

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Empirically Supported Therapy

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The Cognitive Model

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1. Core Beliefs- most central beliefs about self, others, and world (deepest-unconscious)
2. Intermediate Beliefs- attitudes, rules, and assumptions
3. Automatic Thoughts- quick evaluative thought

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Cognitive Paradigm

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Interpretation dictates how we feel about something

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All or nothing thinking

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See things in black or white categories

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Over generalizing

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See a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat

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Mental filter

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Pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of reality becomes darkened

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Disqualifying the positive

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Reject positive experiences by insisting they “don’t count” for some reason or another

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Jumping to conclusions

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You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts supporting your conclusion

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Mind reading

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Arbitrarily conclude that someone is reacting negatively to you

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Fortune telling

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Anticipate that things will turn out badly, and you are convinced that this is a fact

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Magnification or Minimization

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Exaggerate the importance of others’ accomplishments, while minimizing your own. Exaggerating the importance of your goof-ups.

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Emotional reasoning

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Assume that negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are

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Personalization

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You see yourself as the cause of some negative external event

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ABCs of CBT

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A: activating event or experience
B: automatic thoughts about the event (belief)
C: consequences

*change behavior by altering the way a patient thinks about things

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Systematic Desensitization

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Technique used to reduce anxiety

• teach patients to relax
• create fear hierarchy
• while relaxed move up hierarchy
• can be imaginal or in vivo

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Aversion therapy

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• Designed to decrease undesirable behaviors
• Unpleasant stimulus paired with undesirable behavior

ie.: covert desensitization and the treatment of sex offenders

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Contingency Management

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-Uses operant conditioning principles
    ~controlling behavior by manipulating consequences 
-Time-out
-Contingency contracting
-Token economies 

*ie. delinquent children

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Stages of Change

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1. Precontemplation
   
   • not yet considering change; unwilling or unable to change
2. Contemplation
   
   • acknowledges concerns and is considering the possibility of change, but is ambivalent & uncertain
3. Preparation
   
   • committed to & planning to make a change in the near future, but is still considering what to do
4. Action
   
   • actively taking steps to make change
5. Maintenance
   
   • maintaining the change