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• What is the first thing that CBT involves

  -cognitive elements: identify and challenge irrational and negative thoughts
• What is the 2nd thing CBT involves

  -Behavioural elements: Test these beliefs through behavioural hw
• What is central to any form of CBT

  -Challenging irrational thoughts.

  -Beck and Ellis created their own versions of CBT
• What does CBT begin with

  -a collaborative assessment

  -Patient and therapist work together to identify problems

  -Plan goals for therapy and create a plan for treatment
• What is the key goal of Beck's cognitive therapy

  -identify automatic negative thoughts about the world, self, future and challenge these thoughts either directly or through outside tasks
• The patient and therapist..

  -will work together to identify and challenge negative thoughts by finding evidence either for or against them

  -patients are encouraged to test the reality of their negative thoughts inside and outside of therapy
• Outline Ellis' Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT)

  -model is extended to ABCDEF

  -D: disrupting irrational thoughts

  -E: Effects of Disrupting

  -F: new feelings that are produced
• There are 3 types of disrupting. What are they?

  -Logical: does it make sense to think this way

  -Empirical: What evidence is there that this is true

  -Pragmatic: How is thinking like this going to help
• REBT focuses on

  -Challenging and disrupting irrational thoughts and beliefs and replacing them with effective rational thoughts which will make the individual feel better
• There are also out of therapy tasks to be completed such as

  -HW

  -Such as recording events they have enjoyed or when people have been nice to them

  -helps patients to identify irrational thoughts and challenge them to change their beliefs outside therapy
• Another out of therapy task is Behavioural activation. What does this mean?

  -Encouraging patients to engage in active pleasurable activities

  -Breaks patients out of the cycle of inactivity and depression