Cognitive Therapy Flashcards
Describe the cognitive/hot cross bun model
Thoughts emotions behaviour physiology
(All affect each other)
Environment also plays a part
Describe how your early learning experiences contribute to mood disorders
Early experience –> core beliefs –> assumptions (schemata mah be activated by certain events)
Describe some activities done in cognitive sessions
Activity scheduling
Pleasure rating
Mastery rating
Guided discovery
What is cognitive therapy?
Exploring why people have certain thoughts
Define the thinking error ‘all or nothing’ thinking
You view a situation in only two categories, instead of a continuum
Define the thinking error ‘catastrophising’
You predict the future negatively without considering other more likely outcomes
Define the thinking error ‘discounting the positive’
You unreasonably tell yourself that positive experiences, deeds or qualities do not count
Define the thinking error ‘emotional reasoning’
You think something must be true because you ‘feel’ it so strongly, ignoring or discounting evidence to the contrary
Define the thinking error ‘labelling’
You put a fixed, global label on yourself and others without considering that the evidence might more reasonably lead to a less disastrous conclusion
Define the thinking error ‘magnification/minimisation’
When you evaluate yourself, you unreasonably magnify the negative and/or minimise the positive
Define the thinking error ‘mental filter’
You pay undue attention to one negative detail instead of seeing the whole picture
Define the thinking error ‘mind reading’
You believe you know what others are thinking, failing to consider other more likely possibilities
Define the thinking error ‘overgeneralisation’
You make a sweeping negative conclusion that goes far beyond the current situation
Define the thinking error ‘personalisation’
You believe others are behaving negatively because of you, without considering more plausible explanations for their behaviour
Define the thinking error ‘“should” and “must” statements’
You have a precise fixed idea of how you or others should behave and you overestimate how bad it is that these expectations are not met
