CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) is a very popular method and known as a very effective way of treatment. It differs from other approaches in many ways but the most significant difference between CBT and other techniques is that it doesn't deal with your past and your child but focuses on your behavior and thinking patterns in order to identify the underling thoughts or misconceptions that lead one to behave in a way that removes him/her from their goals in life.
There are different and varied methods of treatment that are all considered CBT as they share common characteristics. Albert Ellis, one of the pioneers of CBT, realized the dynamic treatment just doesn't help certain patients and based a different method. He argued that our feelings are based on the way we react and interpret the situation and while one person interprets the same situation in one way, the other will interpret the same exact situation in another way.
The goal in this kind of therapy to identify those beliefs and understand that there are only beliefs and not the truth itself, once the patient identify the beliefs behind his or her behavior they are able to examine them, change them and act differently.
Ellis listed eleven irrational thoughts that we all share: everyone must love me, my pain and misery is because external circumstances, in order to feel good with myself I must be successful and beautiful, everyone reacts the same to the same circumstances, it is better to avoid thing than to confront them and deal with them etc.
Those 11 listed thoughts affect us sometimes in an undesirable manner and prevent us from reacting in a way that serves us and do ud well; thus, the goal of CBT would be to learn to identify them before we react and react do different circumstances in life differently.
There are different and varied methods of treatment that are all considered CBT as they share common characteristics. Albert Ellis, one of the pioneers of CBT, realized the dynamic treatment just doesn't help certain patients and based a different method. He argued that our feelings are based on the way we react and interpret the situation and while one person interprets the same situation in one way, the other will interpret the same exact situation in another way.
The goal in this kind of therapy to identify those beliefs and understand that there are only beliefs and not the truth itself, once the patient identify the beliefs behind his or her behavior they are able to examine them, change them and act differently.
Ellis listed eleven irrational thoughts that we all share: everyone must love me, my pain and misery is because external circumstances, in order to feel good with myself I must be successful and beautiful, everyone reacts the same to the same circumstances, it is better to avoid thing than to confront them and deal with them etc.
Those 11 listed thoughts affect us sometimes in an undesirable manner and prevent us from reacting in a way that serves us and do ud well; thus, the goal of CBT would be to learn to identify them before we react and react do different circumstances in life differently.
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