Beck Text Flashcards
(11 cards)
What is CBT?
An adaptable, structured, short-term, present-oriented psychotherapy model for depression developed by Aaron Beck in the 1960’s/1970’s.
What is the basis for treatment in Beck’s CBT model?
Clinicians based treatment on a cognitive formulation: the maladaptive beliefs, behavioral strategies, and maintaining factors that characterize a specific disorder.
How long is a typical individual CBT session?
45 to 50 minutes
What is the theoretical model behind CBT?
The cognitive model proposes that dysfunctional thinking is connected to all psychological disturbances.
What are the 3 levels of adaptive and maladaptive cognitions?
Surface level, intermediate, and core beliefs 
Recovery orientation includes cultivating …?
Realistically positive automatic thoughts.
Beck found that rapid improvement took place when he began to help clients…
Identify, evaluate, and respond to their unrealistic and maladaptive thinking.
Cognitive therapy recovery orientation emphasizes a clients, personal qualities, skills, and resources rather than…
Their psychopathology.
CBT tends to focus on…. While cognitive therapy recovery tends to focus on…
The past; the future and accomplishing goals
These work as a tool of reference to help combat anxiety for the clinician as well as the client, when assigned appropriately.
Coping Cards
Skilled CBT therapists accomplish many tasks simultaneously during the course of the first session. 10 tasks include:
Building rapport, socializing and educating client, collecting data, conceptualizing case, working towards client goals, overcoming obstacles, teaching skills, summarizing, and eliciting feedback.
