Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Video Analysis

Extra Credit 2: Therapy Video The video I decided to watch is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Specific Phobia of Heights by Dr. Michael Tompkins. In the video Michael Tompkins has the patient say what kind of phobia he had and how he came to find out about having a fear of heights. By asking the patient questions he was able to get enough information from him to go back to the beginning of the story of when he first found out about having a fear of heights, Further in the video he approaches the patient with the question of what triggered these fears and the patient explains that he doesn’t go anywhere that is too high for him. I liked how Dr. Michael Tompkins approached the seriousness of Pitt’s fear and then decided to use a deer analogy …show more content…
CBT was also my control treatment because I believed that exposure therapy would better work for this type of disorder. I enjoyed this video, mostly because Dr. Tompkins didn’t make his patient feel uncomfortable or embarrassed. I’ve watched other therapy videos where the psychiatrist/psychologists would make their patient very uncomfortable and still push the patient to continue, when they don’t want to continue the treatment. I also enjoyed the idea that while listening to Pitt, Dr. Tompkins had a follow up question for whatever Pitt was telling him about whether it be about the first time he found out he had a fear of heights to what type of heights he avoided in general. This video would be very helpful when it came to writing these research papers because we would get the in depth feel on how these therapies work and then be able to decide which therapy would be best to work with the anxiety disorder we have. I would have been really glad to have these video at my disposal to watch, so I would be able to write my Theory of Solution and my Methods section with better