Beck’s CBT

• If they use becks cognitive therapy a therapist will help the patient to identify negative thoughts in relation to themselves, the world and the future, using becks negative triad.
• The patient and therapist will then work together to challenge these irrational thoughts, by discussing evidence for and against them.
• The patient will be encouraged to test the validity of their negative thoughts. The therapist may set their patient homework to challenge and test their negative thoughts.
• The ideas is that the patient identifies their own irrational beliefs and then proves them wrong.
• As a result, their beliefs begin to change