Cognitive approach
- Created by: Kelsie.scanlon
- Created on: 16-04-15 10:20
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- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Distorted thinking
- Dysfunctional beliefs
- unhelpful
- Thinking is based on little or no evidence
- Conclusion- irrational and not supported by evidence
- Result- problematic behaviour, fears, anxieties and depression
- Dysfunctional beliefs
- Rational thinking
- Functional beliefs
- These are useful and helpful
- Based on good evidence
- Conclusions are logical and based on evidence
- Results- happy competent and effective people
- Functional beliefs
- Schemas
- How we mentally organise information
- About things around us
- About outselves
- People with different life experiences have different schemas
- Memory cant remember everything
- Schema helps you to understand what to do in particular situations
- Gives you expectations
- Used to fill in gaps in the memory
- Can cause 'Confirmation Bias'
- When you look for things to confirm your assumption and expectations
- How we mentally organise information
- Advantages
- Can be combined with behavioural techniques
- A highly focussed approach
- Highly structured approach
- Educational approach
- Structured with clear goals
- Makes sense to a lot of people
- Relatively quick
- Cost effective
- Works well with anxiety/depression
- Gives people strategies to help themselves
- Encourages empowerment
- Disadvantage
- Deals with symptoms- doesn't look at the underlying cause
- Clients may not want to talk about problems
- Only deals with one dysfunctional belief at one time
- May not be suitable for those with limited language skills
- ABC
- B
- Beliefs about the event
- A
- Activating event
- C
- Consequences- behaviour or feelings
- B
- Distorted thinking
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