QP provided MY-Kayla with a CBT activity geared towards mood management. QP explained to My-Kayla that the activity will help her to understand negative emotions, help her to identify automatic thoughts that leads to negative emotions and develop ways to counter automatic thoughts and relate negative moods with cognitive and behavioral changes. QP asked My-Kayla to list some negative feelings and thoughts that leads to negative emotions. QP discussed with My-Kayla ways to counteract negative emotions. QP discussed with My-Kayla, how she can better manage mood.…
Discuss how to write up a case of CBT according to Beck Case of cognitive behavioral therapy write up begins from the moment the client walks into the clinic. Case formulation entails all the information asked by the therapist and especially responses from the client. According to Beck (2011), it is very important that the therapist take notes from the onset of meeting the client, this will make case formulation easier to write up, serve as a reference back tool and minimize redundancy in questioning. The therapist will collect detailed case history such as; identifying information, chief complaint, History of present illness, psychiatric history, personal and social history, medical history, mental status check, and DSM-IV-TR Diagnosis (Beck,…
As social work students who are interested in the social work fields of private practice, criminal justice, and education, we are likely to encounter adolescents at-risk of encountering the juvenile justice system or with a history in the system. Included in the ever-growing prison population in our country are thousands of people under the age of 18. In late 2014, there were over 50,000 adolescents under the age of 18 in juvenile detention facilities and over 4,000 adolescents under the age of 18 held in adult detention facilities. (Juveniles in Corrections: Demographics, n.d.). The population of females in juvenile institutions is growing as well, in addition to the number of males (McGlynn, Hahn, & Hagan, 2012).…
The in the article, “Paradoxical Effects of Thought Suppression” researchers explored the hypothesis that thought suppression is difficult for people to do and that suppressed thoughts can return to consciousness with minimal prompting, perhaps becoming obsessive preoccupations (Wegner, 1987.) To explore this, they conducted two experiments where they asked subjects to verbalize their stream of consciousness for 5 minute periods, asked subject groups to alternatively express or suppress thoughts of a “white bear”, and record occurrences of “white bear” thoughts during each period via verbal mentions or bell rings. Researchers found that thought suppression attempts resulted in a rebound effect that was especially pronounced when subjects were…
According to Beck (2011) the basic question to elicit automatic thoughts is "what was going through your mind"? This question will start a conversation to help identify and describe the problem or situation that which the problem stems from. This will help Thelma in achieving her treatment goal to address the sexual abuse she endured. Clients often do not recognize their automatic thoughts so by asking them to describe a specific situation helps to access them. Asking Thelma to relive the abuse through images may be difficult for her, but it’ll allow us to address her thoughts about feelings surrounding the abuse in that…
The automatic thought record worksheet is an important instrument when learning to identify your automatic thoughts and how they are related to your emotional states. This instrument is seen in cognitive behavioral therapy also known as CBT. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a type of psychotherapy that alters defective emotions, behaviors, and thoughts. The CBT thought record identifies negative automatic thoughts, help clients comprehend the links between thoughts and emotions, analyze the evidence for the negative automatic thoughts and help you to think of a more realistic and balanced perspective.…
To begin, I want to say I find this course insightful. Through the weeks, I have come to accept that everyone has unconscious bias, but also, that it is not something to be ashamed of, if anything, it is something to learn from. Before this class, I was not sure how to articulate my experiences on cultural differences. Also, I did not have a good grasp on culture and how it affects us all differently. I have learned to recognize that I have my own ethnocentrism, that it is okay to feel proud of my own culture in the sense that, maybe there are other ways to do things, but I like my way better because that is the way I am accustomed to.…
Human nature and abnormal behavior are defined very differently by the several counseling theories. One could say that two of the most contradictory theories are: Psychodynamic (PD) versus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Both of them attempt to relieve clients of emotional distress, however, the underlying reasons of why the distress occurs, and how the counselor helps the client relieve it, differs highly between the two theories. One of the first and most revolutionary theories in the history of psychology was the Psychodynamic theory. Even though it was originally funded by Freud, many of his students and followers imparted their own theories (e.g Jung, Erikson.)…
We chose to focus our study using a Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) as our theoretical framework. Cognitive behavioral therapy was developed in the 1960’s by Aaron Beck and combines cognitive and behavioral therapies. In CBT, an individual's thoughts, feelings, and behavior are all interrelated. CBT helps an individual build a set of skills to be aware of their thoughts and emotions. An individual will learn to how recognize a situation, thought or behavior that may be influencing their emotions as well as reduce their dysfunctional thoughts or behavior (Cully & Teten, 2008)…
According to our text, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is defined as; Interventions that directly or indirectly change clients’ cognitions that are maintaining their problem behavior. (Frew & Spiegler 2013). CBT includes several types of therapies that focus on the impact of an individual’s thinking as it relates to spoken behaviors. Some of those particular treatments are behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, mindfulness-…
In his book Thinking: Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman explains the process of thinking by characterizing initial thought and deeper thought. In doing so, he calls the initial thought System I and the deeper thought System II. System I can be characterized by being fast, heuristic, and intuitive. It is the default thinking of our minds. This type of thinking is important when a quick decision needs to be made, one that does not require much thought.…
Analysis Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking In this paper we will be discussing the book Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking. We will cover the theory of adaptive unconscious and how small slicing and rapid cognition plays a role in our decision making and intuition. Author Malcolm Gladwell uses different studies to explain how these process can help with decision making and how one can improve adaptive conscious.…
Cant our thoughts be kind enough not to distract us when we are trying to achieve something important? But it’s not that easy to wish your mind to silence. According to Gary Keller, the average person witnesses about 4000 thoughts popping into their heads every day, and you run the risk of derailing from your goals with every 14 seconds that pass. The temptation is powerful, but fortunately, it can be controlled with the right…
Cognitive bias is a limitation in objective thinking that is caused by the tendency for the human brain to perceive information through a filter of personal experience and preferences. Cognitive biases are often a result of an attempt to simplify information processing. Psychologists Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky introduced the concept of psychological bias in the early 1970s. They published their findings in their 1982 book, "Judgment Under Uncertainty."…
The key therapeutic interventions used in Psychoanalysis are free association, interpretation, analysis of transference, resistance and dreams, and projective tests (e.g. TAT, Rorschach Inkblot Test, human figure drawings). On the other hand, in Cognitive Therapy, the techniques used could be forceful disputing, reality testing, chasing cognitive distortions, and identifying automatic thoughts. Unlike Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Therapy is directive and goal oriented and does not look at the client’s past, which some people may consider a disadvantage arguing that if the root of the problem is not treated, the symptom or behavior will eventually reoccur. Likewise, in Psychoanalysis there is a danger that the client could become dependent on their therapist whereas in Cognitive Therapy the client is taught to be…