Understanding Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Psychotherapy Understanding Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Therapy An insight therapy, emphasizing and changing negative and maladaptive beliefs/thoughts Quick Therapy (4-20 sessions) Two “Versions”
Cognitive Therapy operates under these assumptions: Hypothesis w/RET is that emotions stem mainly from beliefs, evaluations, interpretations, and reactions to life situations. Therapy is to identify and change irrational beliefs Main Idea: Interpretations are the problem, not the event
Psychotherapy COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR Beck’s Experiential Approach Ellis’ Rational Emotive Therapy
Cognitive Therapy: Experiential Approach Where the therapist acts as an advisor, helping the client to discover their own faulty beliefs Aaron Beck
Cognitive Therapy: Experiential Approach Identifies faulty beliefs Treated as a hypothesis put to a test via recognizing where thoughts are awry Get feedback
Cognitive Therapy: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (RET) The goal is to provide clients with the tools to restructure their philosophic and behavioral styles Albert Ellis
Cognitive Therapy: Rational Emotive Therapy Activating Event Belief Consequence (Emotional & Behavioral) Dispute Effective Philosophy New Feeling
RET Steps Identify irrational thoughts Therapist disputes irrational thoughts Actively teach client rational thoughts Changes in behavior come through behavioral techniques
Psychotherapy COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR Exposure/ Flooding Aversion Therapy Systematic Desensitization
Systematic Desensitization Build Anxiety Hierarchy Deep Relaxation Work Through Hierarchy “counter-conditioning”
Exposure/Flooding Anxiety reduction technique that keeps people in a feared and harmless situation without escaping
Aversion Therapy An aversive stimulus is paired with a punishing response