1. Cognitive restructuring

2. What is cognitive restructuring?
The changing of one’s thoughts and feelings from negative ones to positive ones

3. Who will benefit?
Anyone with the following:
Anxiety
Depression
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

4. WHO Will benefit, cont’d
Cardiovascular Disease
Cerebrovascular Disease
Those with highly stressful jobs

5. How does it work?
Identify the thought or thoughts causing depression, anxiety or stress
Identify what aspect of these thoughts makes the patient the most uneasy

6. How it works, cont’d 3. Develop a list of more realistic outcomes
4. Replace the negative and stressful thoughts with the more positive realistic thoughts
5. Continue to practice

7. Practical application
Lake County Jail, Illinois
Inmates received behavioral therapy, including the teaching of cognitive restructuring techniques
Inmates learned how to identify their own, personal causes of anger

8. Lake county jail, cont’d
Inmates then learned how to think logically about the situation and figure out better ways of coping with confrontation
Studies show inmates involved with cognitive restructuring had decreased instances of violence and decrease instances of repeat institutionalization