100 likes | 485 Views
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for one hell of a mind blowing experience. What is CBT…. It is psychotherapeutic approach to dealing with abnormality It’s aim is to challenge irrational and dysfunctional thought processes.
E N D
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourselves for one hell of a mind blowing experience.
What is CBT… • It is psychotherapeutic approach to dealing with abnormality • It’s aim is to challenge irrational and dysfunctional thought processes
Becks cognitive therapy • Becks (1976) believed that a negative schemata lead to pessimistic thoughts about the self. • The aim of Becks approach was to challenge these irrational cognitions and replace them with more realistic appraisals. • Thetherapist will help the client to identify negative thoughts by making hem keep a record of all negative thoughts. • The therapist will then challenge these pessimistic thoughts by drawing attention to positive incidents which contradict the clients negative assumptions. • Beckalso used behavioural techniques to encourage more positive behaviour such as training clients in problem skills, or just to encourage people suffering from severe depression to do little things. • However the focus of the therapy is very much on cognitive restructuring.
Ellis and rational-emotive behavioural therapy (REBT) • REBT approach is very similar to Beck’s. • Specific events activate irrationals thoughts and need to be challenged. • Ellis believes that people maintain a negative view about themselves be cause they are constantly looking for evidence to prove the fact that they are inadequate. • The therapists works together with the client to help identify situations and the negative reactions they produce. • The therapist helps the client get a more realistic perspective.
Evaluation of CBT • It is effective as a treatment for depression and social anxiety. • The cognitive approach ignores genetic and biological factors in states such as depression. • The idea of schemata lacks detail and in particular there is no clearly described mechanism for how negative schemata develop in the first place.
the END Thank you everyone for listening, I hope this has proved useful and good luck with your exam.