Cognitive Bx Therapies Flashcards
Beck’s CBT
-developed originally for depression
-EBP for bipolar d/o, generalized anxiety disorder, anorexia, bulimia, schizophrenia, OCD, PTSD
Psychological disturbances according to CBT
-due to maladaptive cog schemas, automatic thoughts, & cognitive distortions
Cognitive schemas
core beliefs developed during childhood
-result of experience and biological factors (ex bio reactivity to stress)
-enduring
-maladaptive or adaptive
-revealed in automatic thoughts
Cognitive profiles
-different disorders associated with different maladaptive schemas
Depression according to CBT
-negative beliefs about self, world, and the future
Automatic thoughts
-verbal self-statements or mental images that come to mind spontaneously when triggered by circumstances & intercede between an event or stimulus and emotional or behavioral reactions
-can be positive or negative
Negative automatic thoughts
-distortion of reality, emotional distress, and/or interfere with the pursuit of life goals
-can contribute to psychological distress
Dysfunctional Thought Record
-used to record negative thoughts outside of therapy
-record event/situation that led to unpleasant emotion, automatic thoughts that precede the emotion, type of emotion, intensity on scale from 1-100, alternative rational response to automatic thought, and outcome (emotion & any change in bx elicited by rational response)
Cognitive Distortions
-systematic errors in reasoning that effect thinking when a stressful situation triggers a dysfunctional schema that in turn affects the content of automatic thoughts
Common cognitive distortions
-arbitrary inference
-selective abstraction
-dichotomous thinking
-personalization
-emotional reasoning
Arbitrary inference
-drawing negative conclusions without any supporting evidence
Selective Abstraction
-paying attention to and exaggerating a minor negative detail of a situation while ignoring other aspects of the situation
Dichotomous thinking
-classify things into one of two extremes
Ex. Success or failure
Personalization
- concluding someone’s actions cause an external event without evidence for that conclusion
Emotional reasoning
- reliance on one’s emotional state to draw conclusions about self, others, & situations.
Goals of CBT
- correct faulty information processing
- help patients modify assumptions that maintain maladaptive behaviors and emotions
CBT therapist approach
- an active structured approach
- use a variety of cognitive and behavioral techniques
Cognitive techniques used in CBT
- redefining the problem
- reattribution
- decatastrophizing
Behavioral techniques used in CBT
- behavioral rehearsal
- exposure therapy
- guided imagery
Essential feature of CBT
- reliance on collaborative empiricism
- Socratic dialogue
Collaborative empiricism
- collaborative therapeutic alliance between the therapist and client
,- work as co-investigators and examine the evidence to accept support reevaluate or reject the client’s thoughts, assumptions, intentions and beliefs
Socratic dialogue
- involves asking the client questions that are designed to clarify and define the client’s problems
-identify the thoughts and assumptions that I underline those problems
- and evaluate the consequences. Maintaining maladaptive thoughts and assumptions
Rational emotive behavior therapy
-Ellis
- attribute psychological disturbances to irrational beliefs
Irrational beliefs
-rebt
- absolute or dogmatic
- expressed in the forms of mass, shoulds, odds, have tos
- lead to negative emotions at largely interfere with goal pursuit and attainment
A-B-C-D-E
-REBT
- explain psychological disturbance and the process of change in therapy
A
- activating event
B
- the clients irrational beliefs about that event
C
- the emotional or behavioral consequence of that belief
D
- the therapist use of techniques that dispute the client’s irrational belief
E
- the effects of these techniques
- the replacement of their rational beliefs with the more rational one
Practitioners of REBT
- use a variety of cognitive, behavioral, and emotive techniques
- active disputation of irrational beliefs
- rational-emotive imagery
- systematic desensitization
- skills training