Cognitive therapies- CBT

Cognitive therapies

• Focus on challenging the way the client thinks
• the clients are in control
• cognitive behavioural therapy
• RET and Beck's treatment for negative thoughts

RET

• irrational thoughts cause emotional distress 
• aims to challenge thoughts by helping the client recognise and discover them
• clients are then taught to replace their irrational thoughts with new more construcitve and realistic ones
• can involve very tough and challenging conversations between the client and therapist

Becks treatment for negative thoughts

• based on the idea that depression is caused by maladaptive cognitions leading to…