Cognitive behavioral therapy

People have a schema which is the sum of all of our thoughts and experiences. This alters how we observe things. Abnormal behavior can be the result of unfavorable schemas. In order to eliminate the abnormal behavior, the belief, schema, and cognitive mindset must be changed. Abnormal behavior can be caused by a particular perspective. For example, a feeling of hopelessness can lead to depression. In Dora’s case, let’s assume that a traumatic event occurred within her household, which is the…

limit the amount to 6 times a week and then keep going lower as she obtains the goal. A treatment that I would recommend would be CBT for obsessive-compulsive disorder. The reason I chose this treatment was because it’s the most commonly endorsed therapy approach and a majority of clinicians are using this approach. Another reason that I chose this approach was because of the underlying premise of the approach. Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected, and influence one another.…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Have you been through some traumatic event in your life and sometimes continue to dwell on the event? If you do this could be the cause of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This effects many thousands of people throughout the United States and the world. People who have greater risks for PTSD are first responders and Military personnel. According to the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, for every ten men, six of them will experience one…

I would diagnose Mr. Schackleford with PTSD, depression, and specific phobia of germs. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) requires that a trauma must be experienced, witnesses, or heard about in order for a patient to be diagnosed. Mr. Schackleford served in the Operation Iraqi Freedom conflict and experienced many traumatic situations including IEDs. The specific event that he believes to have had the greatest impression on him as a time with their troop was cleaning up after an event and…

and the moods that affect their lives. Recovery from mental illness, including being able to deal with everyday life socially, academically and in work environments, is possible. Cognitive and dialectical behavior therapy is one approach that has been successful in the recovery of mental illness. Dialectical behavior therapy is an extensive…

Stigmas almost always carry negative, life changing effects. In regards to mental illness, the stigma that surrounds it can prevent an individual from living their life the way it deserves to be lived, and from seeking the treatment that could potentially help these individuals suffering from mental illness in huge, positive ways. Recent studies have shed a light on a person’s own self-stigma may have worse effects than the stigma that they would face out in society. The media gives off an often…

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is the third wave of behaviour therapy (Öst, 2008; Hayes, 2004), which has some different focal points from traditional behaviour therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy. Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on discussing and changing an individual’s thoughts and the focal points also include the function of problematic cognition rather than the content of private experiences; whereas, traditional behaviour therapy focuses on observable and…

Unable to cognitively process the questions, “Who am I?” and “Who do I want to be?” at a very deep level during childhood, the exercise of self-reflection begins with early adolescence. The teenager moves away from childhood towards adulthood and feels the confusion of being “in between”. Self-consciousness is magnified; as one scrutinizes himself, he believes everyone else is scrutinizing him, too. A teenager experiments with different modes of identity—through peer groups, fashion,…

Depression can be explained at the Four Levels of Explanation. The biological level relates to the chemical processes underlying behaviour. The major effects that depression has at the biological level are headaches, insomnia, change in appetite and an imbalance of neurotransmitters. Basic process refers to the processes underlying behaviour; physiological effects can take place such as thoughts of death and suicide, feeling unhappy and a sense of helplessness. The Person level of explanation…

“Many people pursue it for its own sake, not merely to get any of the other elements” (Schlechter, Lerner). These three attributes make for an outstanding model; however, the model stands incomplete without a sense of direction. Take the Cognitive Behavioral Theory model…