Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Flashcards
For what conditions is CBT used?
Many - it is the most widely used psychotherapy
Originally designed for use in anxiety, depression also v common, and is also used in psychotic disorders
How would you explain CBT to a patient?
CBT helps you assess how your thoughts and reactions towards specific events impact on your behaviours and thus how those behaviours impact your mood and emotions
Both emotion and behaviour feed into one another and have an impact
What is the first stage of CBT?
FORMULATION - initial process of exploring thoughts and behaviours, how they interplay and coming up with specific goals and targets for therapy
What comes next in CBT?
After formatting their thoughts and behaviours, explore with them how these thoughts and behaviours interact and how they might be able to change and influence this relationship
What sort of unhelpful thinking styles might try and be identified and discouraged in CBT?
Jumping to conclusions
Catastrophism (husband late home from work, died in carcrash)
All or nothing thinking - if i don’t get 100% im a failure
Overgeneralisation - single argument means they hate me
Labelling - i am useless
Personificaiton - it went wrong because of me
Magnification and Minimisation of negative or positive thoughts
How does CBT challenge unhelpful thinking styles?
Recognise automatic negative thoughts and challenge them
- Does it really mean they hate you just because they didnt wave
Challenge dysfunctional assumptions - faulty rules a person lives by
How does CBT run practically?
Somewhere between 12-20 sessions that will last 30-60mins each
Will be given homework
Patients often given diary to gather information on the sorts thoughts they’re having and when
What other similar psychotherapies have arisen from CBT?
Dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT) - very often used in the treatment of personality disorders
Cognitive analytical therapy (CAT) - integrated CBT with psychoanalytical therapies (Freudian therapies)
