lecture #13: CBT for Panic disorder

Behavior therapies

behaviors are learned, modification occurs via application of leaning principles

Cognitive therapies

Cognition mediates emotional events and behaviors

CBT goals

• modify maladaptive behavior and cognitive patterns

• focus on personal functioning

• combine BT and CT therapies

Education and monitoring

• Uses tools for monitoring

  • panic record, mood record, progress record

• Education on panic attack

• interrupt the idea that panic attacks=physical harm

• Breathing restraint

Thinking Skills

• thoughts linked to emotions

• identifying negative thoughts

• challenge, reevaluate, thoughts and their outcomes

Exposure

gradually get client comfortable with panic attacks and panic situations

Rationale

• part of exposure

• facing symptoms directly to learn they’re not harmful

Symptom assessment

• part of exposure

• what experiences produce symptoms similar to panic attacks?

Create Hierarchy

• part of exposure

• rank exercises based on anxiety level

Practice

• part of exposure

• work up hierachy

Facing physical symptoms

If you’re literate in the human language this should make sense