Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Case Study

Framework Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the modality which I have chosen to use with the Case of Ruth. CBT’s framework is constructed around recognizing and bringing to light the client’s irrational thought processes and how they are effecting the client’s emotional and behavioral responses. An analytical approach is used to understand the client’s emotions, triggers, and how they are played out behaviorally. CBT employs interventions which change the client’s thought process encouraging change in their emotional and behavioral responses; which will be more effective for the client’s daily life. Understanding the client’s schema is also a significant component of CBT. Distorted thought processes will have an impact on the individual’s understanding of themselves and their world. One reason CBT is an effective theory to utilize in the Case of Ruth are the ample thinking errors she entertains. Her thinking errors are generating distressing emotional and behavioral responses as well as negative physical symptoms. She appears to be caught in a cyclical pattern of thinking errors causing negative symptoms and negative symptoms causing thinking errors.

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Ruth’s high frequency of automatic thoughts appear to have a significant number of triggers imposing on her mental health and daily functioning. Her main triggers appear to be food, fear of what others think about her and her choices, religious guilt, her parents, her interactions with her family members, and the fear of making a “wrong” decision. The fear of making the wrong the choice is halting her ability to make any decision, which is keeping her in a loop of unhappiness; ineffective emotions and