Extraneous cognitive load

Why Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Growing up, I had always wanted to be a doctor. I worked hard in school, networked, and planned out my entire life by eighth grade what I wanted to do. Eventually in high school, I became anxious and depressed. My life plan of becoming a doctor destroyed the schema I had for my world. I attended counseling with a cognitive behaviorist and fell in love with the profession. As my worries became less and I took back the world that was rightfully mine, I also…

Introduction Imaginative escape is creation of images in the head, like remembering how your young life was. Visualization of the past happenings is eminent in these stories. Imagination is much eminent in the story of Araby. The narrator is filled with thoughts of his friend’s sister though the girl knows little about it as the narrator doesn’t talk much with the girl, he fears expressing his secret love to her. Physical escape is simply to put what you have imagined into action. It is…

What is Strategic Family Therapy? Refined and mastered by Jay Haley, Strategic Family Therapy (STF) is a form therapy that seeks to address specific problems in a shorter period of time unlike other forms intensive therapeutic treatments. However, it is considered as one of the major treatment models of both family and brief psychotherapy. The major difference in this style of therapy compared to others is that the therapist takes the role of responsibility. The Mental Research Institute…

Transference Focused Therapy Another form of treatment that is commonly used for borderline personality disorder is transference focused psychotherapy. TFP is a modified psychodynamic psychotherapy (a form of depth psychology of which the primary focus is to reveal the client’s unconscious, deep-rooted feelings in order to make it possible to resolve them). TFP combines methods of standard psychoanalytic technique (such as attention to unconscious processes, focusing on transference, and…

case, the therapist and client cooperatively developed a list of concerns in which three important issues were emphasized to focus on, specifically, anger. They both agreed on the target, problem. Additionally, the therapist introduced Karen to cognitive and behavioral skills as well as role-play and behavioral experiment to promote the practice of the learned skills to specific life situations. The therapist has also provided homework assignment. As a result, the client was able to learn how to…

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) provides Nancy and Garry with a mental tool kit that can be used to challenge negative thoughts. Clients benefit from CBT due to its direct and practical approach to problem-solving. The therapist goal is to provide an environment that encourages the client to change the patterns of thinking or behavior that causes the client difficulties. CBT is used to address some of Garry’s problems that includes sleeping difficulties, relationship problems with Nancy, and…

How Do You Perform NLP Techniques? By Dane Bergen Aug 18, 2007 NLP therapy is of a form of psychotherapy which draws on NLP techniques. Psychotherapists trained in these NLP techniques, are also trained in several other areas like cognitive therapy, and will draw from this as required. People come to these psychotherapists to change or 'fix' some area of their lives and the therapists use an NLP technique or several techniques to help them modify their internal language, so that they can…

A personality disorder is an enduring pattern of an inner experience and behavior that digress considerably from the expectations of the individuals culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Narcissistic Personality Disorder is one that appears dramatic, emotional, or erratic and is a pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration,…

Action Theories Solution-Focused Brief Therapy assumes that realities are socially constructed, and there is no absolute reality. This theory looks at people as they are healthy, knowledgeable, and resourceful. According to SFBT, people have the ability to create solutions and different stories to enrich their lives. SFBT helps clients to recognize their capabilities and build on their potential, strengths, and resources they may have. The philosophy of SFBT can be summed up in three rules of…

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) was developed by Aaron T. Beck, who was originally trained in psychoanalytic theory. Beck theorized that psychiatric disorders are the result of defective thought processes. CBT is designed to alter thought processes, interrupting faulty and illogical thoughts, thus changing the impact on a patient’s emotions. According to CBT, negative thoughts and emotions are the result of faulty or illogical feelings and perceptions (Clevenger, 2014). There is voluminous…