Psychological Treatments: CBT Flashcards
What is meant by CBT?
Cognitive behavioural therapy: patients identify irrational thoughts and try to change them + also make sense of how their delusions and hallucinations impact their feelings.
What a is meant by critical collaborative analysis?
Where patients identify irrational thoughts and try to change them.
What are the different stages of CBT?
- Assessment
- Engagement
- ABC model
In CBT, what is meant by assessment?
Patients identify irrational thoughts and potential causes for them - reflection is key part of stage and is where patient thinks back to identify where their symptoms stem from and what makes the better/worse.
In CBT, what is meant by engagement?
Once irrational thoughts have been identified, therapist sets out a cognitive framework to logically work through their problems.
In CBT, what is meant by the ABC model?
Attempts to restructure patients thought patterns through identifying activating events, behaviours and beliefs.
What does the ABC model stand for?
- Activating events - what is the cause?
- Behaviour and beliefs - how is the patient reacting?
- Consequences - what are the consequences?
In CBT, what is meant by normalisation?
Showing people that recovery isn’t always linear.
How many sessions of CBT are needed?
Between 16-20.
What are 2 weaknesses of CBT?
- Most effective when used alongside drug therapy.
Using CBT alone ignores bio basis of SZ.
Shows CBT isn’t enough by itself. - CBT has a short term effectiveness rate.
Research has shown that CBT has the same rate of relapse as standard Care.
Shows extra time + effort is not worth while.
What is one strength of CBT?
- Research support.
Kuipers et al: over 9 months, found significant improvement for patients receiving CBT compared to those receiving standard care.
Shows CBT has positive outcomes + high satisfaction.
