Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Psychological Analysis

Shakespeare had an exceptional mind. He showed an interest in human behavior in his work like in the play Hamlet. Shakespeare wrote, “There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” (Shakespeare). He meant that nothing is good or bad, but people are the ones that give meaning to what happens to them based on how they think about a positive or negative event in their lives. The popular and effective therapeutic approach known as cognitive behavior therapy is based on this idea.
Cognitive factors play a key role in the development of many anxiety and mood disorders. Cognitive-behavioral treatments use different combinations of verbal interventions and behavior modification techniques to help clients change the way they think about events in their lives. This idea developed in the United States in the 1970s to detect and challenge the automatic negative thoughts that cause depression and …show more content…
Ellis found that irrational assumptions and core beliefs contribute to negative self-worth. He used three columns in therapy. The first column is the objective situation or negative event that causes the client to have an emotional response or negative thinking. The second column the client records the negative thoughts that they have had. The third column is for negative thoughts or behaviors that have ensued. The columns allow the client to connect the negative event with the way it has made them feel. Beck focused on the causes of depression. He found that depression is caused by different types of negative thinking based on the cognitive triad and errors in logic. People that are depressed have negative views about the world, negative views about themselves, and negative views about the future. Their negative outlook is a result of the automatic thoughts that are created by the client and lead to depression