Cognitive behavioural therapy

Question 1

How does cognitive behavioural therapy link to the computer analogy?

Answer 1

it argues that mental illness is caused by faulty thinking or processing - negative memories are recalled to readily at the expense of the positive ones - changing the thinking through cognitive restructuring - we can change our behaviour

Question 2

How does Internal mental processes link to cognitive behavioural therapy?

Answer 2

behaviour can be explained by internal mental processes - this means that the best way to understand behaviour is to investigate how an individual thinks about the situation

Question 3

What does the cognitive approach argue ?

Answer 3

it argues that mental illness such as depression or anxiety are cau sed by maladaptive or negative thoughts or beliefs

Question 4

How does cognitive behavioural therapy further link to schemas?

Answer 4

Beck’s negative cognitive triad - the self (im a bad person), the world(my life is terrible), the future(things will not improve) - makes it difficult for someone who is depressed to recall happy memories, instead dwelling on the more negative thoughts

Question 5

what is there a link between?

Answer 5

our thoughts and behaviours
feelings - what we feel affects how we think and act - behaviour - what we do affects how we think and feel - thoughts - what we think affects how we feel and act

Question 6

What are examples of some automatic thoughts which are negative?

Answer 6

mind-reading, catastrophising, over-generalising, labelling

Question 7

What is catastrophising?

Answer 7

Thinking the worst of everything you do - coming up with many unrealistic reasons that may happen

Question 8

What is mind reading?

Answer 8

guessing what others think, for example: people think I look stupid

Question 9

what is over-generalising?

Answer 9

thinking you cannot do something before you have even started it - for example: I knew I shouldn’t have started this course

Question 10

What is labelling?

Answer 10

attaching highly emotional negative labels to the self, for example: I am an idiot

Question 11

What are are automatic negative thoughts?

Answer 11

thoughts that seem reasonable to the individual - they do not reflect the reality - they bias our interpretation around us - those around us, ourselves - automatic negative thoughts are an example of cognitive errors

Question 12

What are the Main components of CBT?

Answer 12

cognitive element - the therapist works with the client to identify negative thoughts that are contributing to there problems

Question 13

main component of CBT(Behavioural element)?

Answer 13

therapists encourage the client to participate in reality testing either in the session or as homework

Question 14

What are the components that make CBT?

Answer 14

cognitive restructuring, pleasant activity scheduling, dysfunctional thought diary, combining of these cognitive and behavioural techniques

Question 15

What did Aaron Beck do?

Answer 15

trained to be a psychodynamic therapists, there was limitations to his theory
negative thoughts and the cognitive triad
adapting the way he worked with his patients and further developed CBT

Question 16

What is cognitive restructuring?

Answer 16

challenging those negative thoughts and challenging them by asking them for evidence of why they may think that, for example his wife in the video did not say goodbye but it could have been because she was really busy

Question 17

What is a dysfunctional thought diary?

Answer 17

• write down the automatic negative thoughts
• rate them, write a logical alternative, and then rewrite them

Question 18

What would be an example of the dysfunctional thought diary?

Answer 18

• my teacher hates me because I am a bad person(60 percent belief)
• rational response: My teacher does not hate me. He is rude to everyone, and has had a very stressful day, therefore it is nothing really to do with me(20 percent)
  rerated belief: my teacher hates me because I am a bad person(20 percent)

Question 19

What is pleasant activity scheduling?

Answer 19

plann8ing an activity that you may like to do that you enjoy to distract you from negative thoughts