CBT

rational emotive behavior therapy

• Irrational beliefs maintained through negative self talk 

• Goal = Unconditional self + other acceptance

REBT techniques

dispute irrational beliefs, cognitive HW, change one’s language, rational emotive imagery, role playing, shame attacking exercises, humor

dispute rational beliefs

changing the way that you’re thinking

cognitive HW

anything assigned to client outside of session that monitors thoughts

change one’s language

change self talk

rational emotive imagery

have clients imagine the stressful event and as they visualize, they identify their thoughts and work on shifting them

role playing

act it out

shaming attacking exercises

go out and do the thing and monitor thoughts

humor

use humor to make people believe that their beliefs are not practical

cognitive therapy (beck)

negative automatic thoughts, depressive schemas, cognitive triad

negative automatic thoughts

negative thoughts

depressive schemas

overall thinking is depressive and from a negative perspective

cognitive triad

• negative thinking about self, world, future

• (im not good enough, everyone thinks im not good enough, and it’s not going to get better)

cognitive therapy distortions

arbitrary inference, selective abstraction, overgeneralization, magnification, minimization, personalization, labeling, polarized thinking

arbitrary inference

when i make a conclusion with no evidence) (i believe someone doesn't like me for no reason

selective abstraction

take one piece of evidence and draw conclusions based on that Ie i go out with my friends and it goes well other than one stupid think i said, say whole night is bad based off just that

overgeneralization

take one bad thing that happened and assume it always will happen

magnification

blow (negative) things out of proportion

(minimization is the opposite)

personalization

make something about me when its not

labeling

we put a negative label on ourselves

polarized thinking

• all or nothing, dichotomized, black and white

• thinking in the extremes

cognitive behavior modification- meichenbaum

focus on self statements

self inoculation training

education, skills acquisition, application

• (idea we can teach people these skills before depression or negative interaction, we can proide CBT info and coping skills to prevent issues during times of stress)

constructivist approach

• Idea we create our own story/narrative, looks at if it is good for you

• Focused on is it what we believe

  • If we believe our parents love our sibling more, that is our reality

  • Shift this to my sibling needed more guidance than me

CBT strengths and limitations

S:Quick, Empirically validated, Inexpensive

L: don’t spend time on past, social/political forces, ethnicity