Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Question 1

What are the 3 components of CBT?

Answer 1

Thinking
Feeling
Behaviour

Question 2

What is the theory around CBT?

Answer 2

Your thoughts have a direct affect on your emotions, behaviour and physiology
Therefore, changing the automatic thoughts to more accurate thoughts improve symptoms

1) identify why the patient isn’t able to solve problem on their own - lack skills (cognitive, social, or interpersonal), lack motivation
2) pathological thinking (acquiring info, synthesising info, formulating a plan)

Question 3

What are the different cognitive distortions

Answer 3

Dichotomous thinking
Arbitrary reference
Maximisation or minimisation
Selective abstraction
Overgeneralisation
Personalisation

Question 4

What are the cognitive strategies used in CBT?

Answer 4

Collaborative empiricism (dr and patient coinvestigate)
Guided discovery (behavioural/thought experiments)
Socratic dialogue (promote new learning by asking probing questions)

Question 5

What is the behavioural theory of CBT?

Answer 5

Behaviour is formed/acquired and maintained by the problems of daily living
It is maintained by current determinants

Question 6

What are determinants of current behaviour?

Answer 6

External stimuli
External reinforcement
Cognitive mediational processes

Question 7

What methods are used in CBT for behavioural modification?

Answer 7

Conditioning
Positive reenforcement
Negative reenforcement
Punishment
Extinction