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Cognitive Approaches
Question | Answer |
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Who developed cognitive therapy? | Aaron Beck |
Who developed REBT? | Albert Ellis |
What is REBT? | Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy; Current thoughts determine how we feel and behave |
What is the therapeutic relationship? | Counselor: helping the client identify and change irrational thoughts; be an active teacher |
What is the client-counselor relationship? | Counselor-Client: actively working on the clients problems; could vary depending on the therapist |
What are the goals of REBT? | Negotiate between the client and therapist; Identify irrational beliefs; Live a rational lifestyle |
Initial Exploration Stage | Exploring the connections among the ABC's and the irrational beliefs |
Action Stage | Therapist uses techniques to help the client give up irrational thoughts and replace with rational thoughts |
A | Actual event |
B | Behavior |
C | Consecuences of A and B interacting |
D | Disputing the irrational behavior |
E | Effective and rational philosphy of life |
F | New Feeling from disputing irrational belief |
What is the focus cognitive therapy? | “Linear” relationship between a person's cognitions, feelings, behaviors, and motivations |
Major aspects of coginitve therapy | Systems functions in modes Create our own reality Cognition mediates affect and behavior Cognition is knowable Cognition change is primary in the change process |
What is a Schema? | Schemas: core beliefs developed through life that affects one's perception of events |
What is automatic thoughts and schemas? | Schema develop into automatic thoughts |
Thinking Distortions | Arbitrary Inference Selective Abstraction Overgeneralization Magnification and Minimization Personalization Dichotomous Thinking |
What are dysfunctional modes? | Schemas form modes that are networks of cognitive, affective, motivational, and behavioral schemas to form personality and interpret ongoing situations |
What is the therapeutic relationship in cognitive therapy? | Flexible and effective interpersonal skills |
What is the client-counselor relationship? | Work together; trust and respect |
What are the goals of cognitive therapy? | Modifying thinking that leads to problem behaviors and feelings; Consider the client's situation |
Therapeutic Techniques- Automatic thoughts | Identifying those connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; Recognize the impact these connections have on negative feelings and behaviors |
Therapeutic Techniques- Avoiding retribution | Clients take on responsibility for any event that goes wrong creating negative emotions and behaviors |
Therapeutic Techniques- Logical Analysis | Testing automatic thoughts with evidence to identify logical distortions |
Therapeutic Techniques- Decatastrophizing | Imagine the worst possible outcome; Challenge this thinking by using “what if |
Therapeutic Techniques- Challenging Maladaptive Assumptions | Assumptions made by clients that they are aware; Thought stopping; Positive imagery; Positive self talk |
Problem Solving Therapy | probvlem definition; generation of alternatives; decision making; solution implementation |