How Can Modern Behavioural Therapies Help a Client Accept the Uncertainty of Their Future
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How Can Modern Behavioural Therapies Help a Client Accept the Uncertainty of Their Future
In order to evaluate whether modern behavioural therapies can help a client accept the uncertainty of their future, I am going to look in detail at two Modern Behavioural therapies, REBT – Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy and CBT – Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to ascertain their use in therapy with a client.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one of the classic “talking therapies” based on a concept created by Aaron Beck around the 1950's. Seen now as a short term therapy that revolves around solving problems and changing negative thinking patterns. It is a way of talking about how you think about yourself, the world and other people and how what you do affects your thoughts and feelings. CBT looks at our emotional development and encourages clients to actively change negative behaviour patterns. CBT therapy will give clients homework to complete outside the sessions and relies on clients taking a very active part in the therapy. The disadvantage to this is that it is unlikely to be successful with clients who are undertaking therapy unwillingly or are not wanting to change.
CBT can help you to change how you think ('Cognitive') and what you do ('Behaviour'). Unlike some of the other talking treatments, it focuses on the 'here and now' problems and difficulties. Instead of focusing on the causes of your distress or symptoms in the past, it looks for ways to improve the way you process thoughts and feelings and turn your behaviour patterns towards the positive rather than the negative. CBT is recognised to help with many different mental health issues. These include: anxiety, depression, panic, phobias (including agoraphobia and social phobia), stress, bulimia, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and psychosis. CBT may also help if you have difficulties with anger, a low opinion of yourself or...
In order to evaluate whether modern behavioural therapies can help a client accept the uncertainty of their future, I am going to look in detail at two Modern Behavioural therapies, REBT – Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy and CBT – Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to ascertain their use in therapy with a client.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one of the classic “talking therapies” based on a concept created by Aaron Beck around the 1950's. Seen now as a short term therapy that revolves around solving problems and changing negative thinking patterns. It is a way of talking about how you think about yourself, the world and other people and how what you do affects your thoughts and feelings. CBT looks at our emotional development and encourages clients to actively change negative behaviour patterns. CBT therapy will give clients homework to complete outside the sessions and relies on clients taking a very active part in the therapy. The disadvantage to this is that it is unlikely to be successful with clients who are undertaking therapy unwillingly or are not wanting to change.
CBT can help you to change how you think ('Cognitive') and what you do ('Behaviour'). Unlike some of the other talking treatments, it focuses on the 'here and now' problems and difficulties. Instead of focusing on the causes of your distress or symptoms in the past, it looks for ways to improve the way you process thoughts and feelings and turn your behaviour patterns towards the positive rather than the negative. CBT is recognised to help with many different mental health issues. These include: anxiety, depression, panic, phobias (including agoraphobia and social phobia), stress, bulimia, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and psychosis. CBT may also help if you have difficulties with anger, a low opinion of yourself or...