Extraneous cognitive load

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is all about changing the thoughts that a person has and their current way of thinking. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a gradual process that helps a person take incremental steps towards a behavior change. There are two steps that are generally used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The therapist begins by helping the patient identify the problematic beliefs that they have. This step is important for learning how feelings, situations, and thoughts can attribute to…

I was inspired through the introduction of the open dialogues approach in the lecture, a new ways of thinking about mental illness and the treatment. Psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses; para-professionals; clients; even their family and the public, mostly focused on the controlling of symptoms, as well as removing the symptoms as possible; I thought attention could be more directed to generating dialogues from clients and their family members, attended to what they are saying rather than planning…

A solution-focused helping is instructed in current problems that narrow the time frame for a resolution. Many factors of solution-focus have several approaches used by counselors on managing clients individually. A positive philosophy is a foremost factor used in today’s therapy with the clients and counselors. The views of the clients are used to help clients interpret their powers to control the problem. A counselor helps clients acknowledge the successes rather the failure enhance them…

The following article evaluates the potential benefits of viewing a mirror image of an unaffected upper limb on recovery in patients with hemiparesis early after ischemic stroke. Participants included thirty-six individuals who had severe hemiparesis following a first-time ischemic stroke in the middle cerebral artery territory. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups; the control group (n=18), who received standard therapy, or the experimental group (n=18), who received…

Choices of Intervention I have chosen a couple of courses of intervention to help my client. The first is problem solving in conjunction with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). As a social worker, my job is to listen to my client’s problems, or their perception of their problems, and help them find ways to solve those problems. Next, CBT, is an effective form of therapy for people who have experienced trauma. I believe, due to my client’s abuse history she suffers from posttraumatic stress…

Psychodrama and CBT for Depression. The Hamamci (2006) study compared the effects of a psychodrama program that was integrated with cognitive behavioral group therapy for the treatment of depression. Psychodrama is a method of exploring psychological and interpersonal challenges by having participants enact the related events in their lives instead of only talking about them. Psychodrama techniques are especially helpful in situations where irrational beliefs cannot be detected by writing them…

Culture is a set of accepted customs and norms in which a group of people practice, behave, or celebrated in a distinct way different from other types of customs and norms who live in a particular community or society. Individuals living within a particular culture has a cultivation of learning through the specific style of living by its own society. I believe to become a more effective therapists he/she has to respect the different culture client bring to counseling in order to establish a…

interesting. One form of therapy that is interesting is the cognitive behavioral therapy. Another interesting form of therapy is electroconvulsive therapy. Lastly, a third interesting form of therapy is existential therapy. Each form of therapy has their own specific goal and key components to reach those goals. 2) Cognitive behavioral therapy has the goal of treating a patient's fear, thought process, and behavior. Some techniques involved in cognitive behavioral therapy is role play,…

There are many different ways to treat psychological disorders. The two main types of therapies are insight therapy and behavior therapy (behavior modification). Insight therapists rely on trying to change the way people think and feel. Behavior therapists seek to understand how unwanted behaviors might have been learned and, even more important, how they can be eliminated and replaced by more effective patterns (Geller & Dula, 2015). Behavior therapy is the most compelling to me. Under behavior…

variety of therapeutic approaches have been used to address the illness in client populations, with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) standing as the most frequently-applied methods (Miklowitz, 2009). This paper will explore the history of CBT theory and its major techniques, its efficacy in the treatment of bipolar disorder, and the author’s personal reactions to it as a theoretical orientation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: History and Overview Founded by Aaron Beck, CBT is a theoretical…