Treating Depression

• Aim of CBT


  To teach patients to rethink and challenge their negative perceptions
• Phase 1 of Beck's CBT


  Patient and therapist identify automatic negative thoughts and work together to clarify the patient's problems
• Phase 2 of Beck's CBT 


  Challenge negative thoughts related to the negative triad

  Reality test negative thoughts
• Phase 3 of Beck's CBT 


  Client as scientist

  Patients are encouraged to test reality of irrational beliefs

  Set homework which must be completed or the therapy becomes ineffective

  • Record when enjoying an event

  Therapist uses this to prove irrational beliefs are incorrect
• Difference between Ellis' REBT and Beck's CBT

  Irrational beliefs are challenged in REBT
• Phases A + B of the REBT


  Identify the Activating event and the Belief about the event
• What does REBT stand for?

  Rational Emotional Behavioural Therapy
• C Phase of REBT

  Identify the emotional Consequences

  • How did it make you feel?
• D phase of REBT


  Disputations to challenge the irrational beliefs
• E Phase of REBT


  introducing Effective new beliefs to replace irrational ones