Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies Flashcards
How does CBT explain problems?
psychological disturbance is due largely to maladaptive cognitive schemas, automatic thoughts, and cognitive distortions
What are cognitive schemas in CBT?
- core beliefs that develop during childhood as the result of experience and certain biological factors
- enduring
- can be maladaptive or adaptive
- revealed in automatic thoughts
- different disorders are associated with different maladaptive schemas (aka cognitive profiles)
What are automatic thoughts in CBT?
- verbal self-statements or mental images that come to mind spontaneously when triggered by circumstances and come between an event/stimulus and the individual’s emotional and behavioral reactions
- can be positive or negative
What are the features of negative automatic thoughts?
- distortion of reality
- emotional distress
- interference with the pursuit of life goals
How are thought records used in CBT?
- when the client feels their mood worsening they record:
- the event or situation that led to an unpleasant emotion
- automatic thoughts that preceded the emotion
- the type of emotion and its intensity on a scale from 0 to 100
- an alternative rational response to the automatic thought
- the outcome (the emotion and any change in behavior elicited by the rational response)
What are cognitive distortions in CBT?
systematic errors in reasoning that often affect thinking when a stressful situation triggers a dysfunctional schema that, in turn, affects the content of automatic thoughts
What are the 5 main types of cognitive distortions in CBT?
- arbitrary inference
- selective abstraction
- dichotomous thinking
- personalization
- emotional reasoning
What is arbitrary interference?
drawing negative conclusions without any supporting evidence
What is selective abstraction?
paying attention to and exaggerating a minor negative detail of a situation while ignoring other aspects of the situation
What is dichotomous thinking?
the tendency to classify events as representing one of two extremes – for example, as a success or a failure
What is personalization?
concluding that one’s actions caused an external event without evidence for that conclusion
What is emotional reasoning?
reliance on one’s emotional state to draw conclusions about oneself, others, and situations
What are the 2 primary goals of CBT?
- correct faulty information processing
2. help patients modify assumptions that maintain maladaptive behaviors and emotions
What are some (7) of the cognitive and behavioural techniques used in CBT?
- redefining the problem
- reattribution
- decatastrophizing
- activity scheduling
- behavioral rehearsal
- exposure therapy
- guided imagery
What is collaborative empiricism in CBT?
a collaborative therapeutic alliance between the therapist and client in which they become coinvestigators as they examine the evidence to accept, support, reevaluate, or reject the client’s thoughts, assumptions, intentions, and beliefs
What is socratic dialogue in CBT?
asking the client questions that are designed to clarify and define the client’s problems, identify the thoughts and assumptions that underlie those problems, and evaluate the consequences of maintaining maladaptive thoughts and assumptions
How does Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) explain problems?
psychological disturbances are the result of irrational beliefs (e.g. should’s, must’s, have to’s) which lead to negative emotions that interfere with goal pursuit and attainment
What is the A-B-C-D-E model in REBT?
A - Activating event
B - irrational Belief about event
C - emotional or behavioural Consequence of belief
D - techniques to Dispute irrational belief
E - Effect of techniques
What are four of the techniques used in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy?
- rational-emotive imagery
- active disputation of irrational beliefs
- systematic desensitization
- skills training
R.A.S.S.
What problems is Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) used for?
- depression
- anxiety
- conduct problems
- anger
- others
What was Self-Instructional Training developed for?
Self-instructional training was initially developed by Meichenbaum to teach problem-solving skills to children with high levels of impulsivity
What are the 5 stages of Self-Instructional Training?
- Cognitive modeling stage
- Overt external guidance stage
- Overt self-guidance stage
- Faded overt guidance stage
- Covert self-instruction stage
What happens in the cognitive modeling stage of Self-Instructional Training?
children observe a model perform a task while the model verbalizes instructions aloud