Cbt Theory
This essay will show first, how cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) explains the core characteristics of anxiety disorders, the way the anxiety process happens, and its maintenance six processes and cognition biases. Then second, the focus of CBT treatment of anxiety disorders, its different interventions and the use of gradual exposure as a fundamental treatment for all phobic anxieties.
CBT theory believes that the main concept in anxiety disorder is an over involvement with exaggerated ideas about a perceived threat. This is associated with undermining the client’s own abilities of coping. In addition, such clients are often in possess of views about the world and about their selves that are not flexible (Wells, 1997 cited in Freeman, 2004, …show more content…
Such as selective attention, extreme thinking, relying on intuition, taking things personally, high standards, catastrophizing, mental filter, magnification and minimizing and name calling (Borkovec, 1994 cited in Westbrook, Kennerley and Kirk, 2011, …show more content…
To obtain this, there are different interventions, such as cognitive, behavioural or physical. Selecting one of these depends on the identified process behind the maintenance of anxiety (Westbrook, Kennerley and Kirk, 2011, p291). Thus, relaxation techniques are used if physical symptoms are affecting the client’s performance. Meanwhile, planning, scheduling activities and self-monitoring are beneficial for avoidance. In addition, there are cognitive approaches for helping the client to find out the maintenance process by reassessing their unhelpful perspectives and their methods of processing information. Finally, there is experimenting technic that test two opposite perspective, with one of them is challenging the fear beliefs (Salkovskis and Bass, 1997 cited in Westbrook, Kennerley and Kirk, 2011, p287). To do that, a therapist need not to oppose the client beliefs, but to suggest the possibility of different interpretation to the situation and to test them retrospectively and prospectively. This testing might bring the functional sort of perspective into the client attention and
CBT theory believes that the main concept in anxiety disorder is an over involvement with exaggerated ideas about a perceived threat. This is associated with undermining the client’s own abilities of coping. In addition, such clients are often in possess of views about the world and about their selves that are not flexible (Wells, 1997 cited in Freeman, 2004, …show more content…
Such as selective attention, extreme thinking, relying on intuition, taking things personally, high standards, catastrophizing, mental filter, magnification and minimizing and name calling (Borkovec, 1994 cited in Westbrook, Kennerley and Kirk, 2011, …show more content…
To obtain this, there are different interventions, such as cognitive, behavioural or physical. Selecting one of these depends on the identified process behind the maintenance of anxiety (Westbrook, Kennerley and Kirk, 2011, p291). Thus, relaxation techniques are used if physical symptoms are affecting the client’s performance. Meanwhile, planning, scheduling activities and self-monitoring are beneficial for avoidance. In addition, there are cognitive approaches for helping the client to find out the maintenance process by reassessing their unhelpful perspectives and their methods of processing information. Finally, there is experimenting technic that test two opposite perspective, with one of them is challenging the fear beliefs (Salkovskis and Bass, 1997 cited in Westbrook, Kennerley and Kirk, 2011, p287). To do that, a therapist need not to oppose the client beliefs, but to suggest the possibility of different interpretation to the situation and to test them retrospectively and prospectively. This testing might bring the functional sort of perspective into the client attention and