psychotherapy lecture 4 | Quizlet

cognitive therapy

a talk therapy that treats distressing emotional repsonses and behaviours by identifying and correcting unhelpful, inaccurate thought patterns

beckian theory

proposes that life events trigger negative automatic thoughts, which activate deeper cognitive structures, contributing to psychological disorders

negative automatic thoughts (NATs)

automatic, intrustive, semi-conscious, uncritically accepted thoughts.

socratic questioning

technique used to help clients examine and challenge their NATs. the therapist asks questions to help clients to evaluate that for themselves

pie chart technique

make a list of the believability of the explanations of the symptoms in a patient with illness anxiety

behavioural experiment technique

a technique used to test whether a client's beliefs or core assumptions are actually true in real life