Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a school of therapy that interferes with both cognitions and behaviors. CBT states that a person's thoughts create emotions and behavior emerges as a result. Techniques also aim to interfere with both cognitions and behaviors.
The Technique of Receiving Automatic Thoughts
Automatic thoughts are the first thoughts that come to a person's mind after the event, the reality of which has not been questioned, and unevaluated. The more biased the thought that comes to our mind about the event, the more dysfunctional in our emotions and behavior. CBT says that thoughts are conjectures and can be tested in their assumptions. This test is done by collecting evidence from the person's thought.
To get the person's automatic thought, the question 'What were you thinking at that moment?' is asked. In CBT, treatment usually begins with addressing automatic thoughts.
Exposure Technique
It is to confront the client with the feared situation. It is to encourage them to be exposed to the situation they are worried about and to the one whose anxiety decreases.
It consists of 4 stages.
1- Evaluation stage: To evaluate the anxiety dimension of the client and to collect detailed information about the problem.
2- Preparing the client for therapy: It is cognitively prepared by working with the client's thoughts.
3- Exposure: It is confrontation and encouragement until the anxiety and fear decrease and disappear.
4- Self-control phase: Encouraging him to become his own therapist in order to consolidate the gains he has made during the sessions. To encourage frequent situations that cause anxiety.
Modelling
To enable clients to learn new behavior by observing another person's behavior.
Symbolic Modeling: We can present the event and characters there as a model by suggesting a movie and book about the client's problem.
Participatory Modeling: Using a real model about what to teach the client. It is the technique in which the therapist participates. The therapist showing and modeling a client who cannot ride the escalator.
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It is gradually confronting the person with the feared or anxious situation. The goal is to normalize what is feared. It is often used in phobias. First of all, the individual is taught relaxation-breathing exercises. The client is made a list of situations related to the thing he fears from the least frightening to the most frightening. Afterwards, it is gradually revitalized and relaxation exercises are applied. The last is gradually experienced in real life.
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