WEEK 1 CBT Flashcards
What is the basic idea underlying CBT interventions?
Cognitions profoundly and causally influence emotions and behaviours and thereby contribute to the maintenance of psychiatric problems.
What are the theoretical origins of CBT?
Classical conditioning (Pavlov’s)
What is the key takeaway from Beck’s housewife theory (1976)?
Beliefs activate emotional response (if thinking dominated by danger, knock on door is a burglar)
What are assumptions?
Arise without reflection or reasoning (negative automatic thoughts)
What are the 5 aspects of the CBT model?
Environment, thoughts, emotion, behaviours, physical symptoms
What is conceptualisation?
Understanding symptoms in the context of the person
What are the key features of a CBT formulation?
Hypothetical (we cold be wrong)
Parsimonious (simple)
Tested out in therapy
Components of a developmental formulation
Vulnerability factors (childhood or adulthood)
Beliefs/assumptions
Precipitants
Triggers
The problem
Maintenance processes
Treatment target
What do safety behaviours, avoidance, performance anxiety, perfectionism maintain in the context of CBT?
CENTRAL COGNITIONS
True or false:
Maintaining factors are rarely things that a person conciously chooses to maintain the situation.
True
What does strength of alliance between therapist and patient rely on?
Degree of agreement about tasks and goals
Strength of relational bond
What role does a formulation serve?
Breaks maintenance behaviours
change interpretations of symptoms
reduce avoidance
drop safety behaviours
build resilience, adaptive coping
What four categories should a problem list be divided into?
Thoughts
Mood states
Body states
Behaviour
What is a modifier?
Factor that affects problems severity
What are the elements of Beck’s cognitive model of emotional disorder?
Early experiences, core beliefs, conditional assumptions, critical incidents, activation of negative beliefs and assumptions
