Often clients will come to their first appointment, anticipating instant remedies, the new miracle pill once assigned to the doctors. “Just give me some techniques to cope and I’ll be fine!” they cry. It’s true that Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is well known for its effective intervention techniques.
However, its really important and it’s an essential part of this approach, to take the time initially, to develop a working concept about you as a particular individual. CBT starts with having a concept that ties a cognitive behavioural theory with your unique psychological makeup.In this way this treatment, by using these techniques, can help break patterns of avoidance and helplessness. You can learn ways to face up to fearful situations and build on your list of coping skills thereby reduce the painful, agonising emotions that pop up automatically. CBT is a powerful tool to cut down on or eliminate symptoms of suffering and promote real positive change in your life.
Its a collaborative approach, the therapist and you look at the ways you are thinking, a way to guide you to recognise those thinking errors and then change your automatic thoughts. Then future triggers can be managed. As you become more adept at recognising your thinking errors, you’ll be able to avoid “catastrophic” thoughts that plummet you downward in stressful situations. This is a benefit that keeps on working even after therapy ends.
CBT which has roots in ancient writings and more recently when Aaron T Beck published his works in the 1960′s, has become one of the most widely practised forms of psychotherapy. This is due to the large amount of empirical research which examined its basic theories and demonstrated its success as a treatment mode.
It really is a common sense approach. Epictetus the Greek philosopher wrote, ” Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things.”
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