cbt

• cbt

  talking therapy that helps manage problems by changing the way you think and feel
• ellis changed

  peoples irrational beliefs
• beck changed

  peoples negative schemas
• strategies

  1. THOUGHT CATCHING - identify client irrational thoughts this allows therapist to see negative views of the client
  2. PATIENT AS SCIENTIST - patient asked to test their negative hypothesis by testing those negative thoughts eg patient thinks no one wants to talk to them but when person talks to them they figure out their hypothesis is wrong so there beliefs are challenged
• FINAL STEP

  3. BEHAVIOURAL ACTIVATION - patient given a HW task to improve confidence in themselves eg client believes they have no friends. Therapist tasks them to go to the store and talk to the cashier
• ellis ABCDE

  disupte

  • logical disputing - therapists tries to see if beliefs were logical
  • empirical disputing - therapist tries to see if the client has any evidence to back up their thoughts
  • pragmatic disputing - therapist asks if it is useful to think in such a way

  effects

  • see how patient feel after 5 - 20 sessions