Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 7 Steps

Question 1

What did Buddha say about our thoughts?

Answer 1

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.”

Question 2

What is the simple way of explaining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

Answer 2

Change the way you think and it can change the way you feel.

Question 3

Why is CBT often referred as the eastern crossover to the west?

Answer 3

largely due to the debt it owes to the philosophies of Hinduism and Buddhism. Some even go to the extent of calling CBT a subset of mindfulness that is dominant in the philosophy of the East.

Question 4

What is the Basic Theory of CBT?

Answer 4

We can’t always change our circumstances or the situations that life hands us, but we can change how we think about, and thus, how we feel about them.

Question 5

What two kinds of methods are involved in CBT?

Answer 5

cognitive and behavioral methods.

Question 6

Why does CBT trump psychoanalysis?

Answer 6

therapy is usually addressing unpleasant feelings of distress, fear, or hopelessness. Since feelings are often difficult to change directly, CBT focuses on changing the thoughts and behaviors that lead to these feelings. Its premise is simple: By being mindful of your thoughts, you can control your feelings and, consequently, your actions.

Question 7

What skills do you learn in CBT that you don’t learn in mainstream therapy?

Answer 7

makes CBT different from other therapies that focus on discussing problems and offering advice during visits. These skills includes having an awareness of thoughts and emotions, being able to identify how different situations influence thoughts and behaviors, how thoughts and behaviors effect emotions, and ultimately, how dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors can be modified in ways that lead to more pleasant and manageable feelings.

Question 8

Who developed CBT?

Answer 8

Albert Ellis and Aaron T. Beck.

Question 9

What is stoicism?

Answer 9

the endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint

Question 10

What is Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)?

Answer 10

Understanding irrational beliefs and the restructuring of those that lead to emotional pain and suffering.

Question 11

Why is REBT different than CBT

Answer 11

CBT is like REBT because it requires the restructuring of thoughts. CBT, however, includes behavior modification.

Question 12

Why did Beck and Ellis favor CBT over psychoanalysis?

Answer 12

They found that helping patients identify negative thoughts was better, because patients developed relief systems.

Question 13

Why did Beck and Ellis feel that Cognitive Behavioral was more scientific than Psychoanalysis?

Answer 13

Because thoughts and beliefs are testable; empirical hypothesis.

Question 14

What do CBT therapists try to help their patients do?

Answer 14

Identify beliefs

Challenge them

Forming new reasonable beliefs.

Question 15

What is the relationship between our thinking and feeling?

Answer 15

How we think affects how we feel.

Question 16

What causes suffering?

Answer 16

Our desires. When our desires are not fulfilled.

Question 17

What’s wrong with being a perfectionist?

Answer 17

The World is impermanent, and when we want everything to be perfect, it leads to more pain.

Gap between perception and reality

Question 18

Why is it contradictory to say that CBT is the “new way?”

Answer 18

CBT is actually older than Psychoanalysis. Thousands of years older. It pulls its teachings from Hinduism and Buddhism.

Question 19

What disorders can CBT help?

Answer 19

Anxiety, OCD, depression, phobias, PTSD. etc.

Question 20

When is Anxiety normal or helpful? When is bad?

Answer 20

Anxiety is good when we are in danger.

Anxiety is a problem when it persists long past any physical danger.

Question 21

What did shantideva say about worrying about our problems?

Answer 21

Indian Buddhist scholar, Shantideva: “If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying: If you can’t solve your problem, what is the use of worrying?”

Question 22

What is the Cognitive model?

Answer 22

The cognitive model is a theory used in psychology to explain how behaviors, thoughts, and feelings are related.

Question 23

How does the Cognitive model challenge our relationship between our feelings and our experiences?

Answer 23

The cognitive model challenges the idea of the direct connection between situations or experiences and feelings, and posits that it is actually the thoughts we have about those situations that result in the feelings we have.

Question 24

What should we think when a negative experience arises?

Answer 24

responding not so much to the situation, but to the inaccurate thoughts that result from that situation,

Question 25

What encompasses the target behavior of CBT?

Answer 25

Rather then encouraging you to avoid situations that lead to these feelings(which may be impossible), CBT helps you learn how to change your thoughts about the situation in a way that changes the feelings that result from it.

Question 26

What are the three levels of consciousness?

Answer 26

Automatic thoughts, assumptions, and core beliefs.

Question 27

What are automatic thoughts? What are some examples of automatic thoughts

Answer 27

Automatic thoughts are streams of consciousness thoughts that pop into our mind. Normally situation specific.