This therapy helps to see life and the world in a new light. This helps to abandon toxic thoughts and impressions. It enables one to accept oneself unconditionally. This therapy method can be utilised to treat various mental health problems such as depression and anxiety disorders. These two have become two very common issues in recent times. CBT can effectively control these two conditions. This cognitive behavioural therapy believes that thoughts, feelings, and behaviour have a connection.
All these are interconnected. Using this idea, we can explain how our thoughts have the power to determine our mood, feeling, and behaviour. All these share a closed relationship. CBT and REBT are two types of psychotherapy that are extensively used to treat individuals who suffer from mental problems.
CBT has to be understood as an umbrella term that is used for psychotherapy. This article attempts to elaborate on these two psychotherapeutic methods while highlighting the difference. Cognitive behavioral therapy is a psychotherapeutic method that is used to treat those who suffer from mental problems.
This therapy can be used for various mental problems. Depression and anxiety disorders are two of the most common problems for which this therapy can be used.
The main idea of the cognitive behavioral therapy is that our thoughts, feelings , and behavior are all inter connected. The first column records the objective situation, that is, an event that ultimately leads to some type of high emotional response or negative dysfunctional thinking. In the second column, the client writes down the negative thoughts that occurred to them. The third column is for the negative feelings and dysfunctional behaviors that ensued.
The negative thoughts of the second column are seen as a connecting bridge between the situation and the distressing feelings. The third column C is next explained by describing emotions or negative thoughts that the client thinks are caused by A.
This could be anger, sorrow, anxiety, etc. Ellis believes that it is not the activating event A that causes negative emotional and behavioral consequences C , but rather that a person interprets these events unrealistically and therefore has an irrational belief system B that helps cause the consequences C.
Gina is upset because she got a low mark on a math test. The Activating event, A, is that she failed her test. The Belief, B, is that she must have good grades or she is worthless.
The Consequence, C, is that Gina feels depressed. After irrational beliefs have been identified, the therapist will often work with the client in challenging the negative thoughts on the basis of evidence from the client's experience by reframing it, meaning to re-interpret it in a more realistic light.
This helps the client to develop more rational beliefs and healthy coping strategies. A therapist would help Gina realize that there is no evidence that she must have good grades to be worthwhile, or that getting bad grades is awful. She desires good grades, and it would be good to have them, but it hardly makes her worthless. If she realizes that getting bad grades is disappointing, but not awful, and that it means she is currently bad at math or at studying, but not as a person, she will feel sad or frustrated, but not depressed.
The sadness and frustration are likely healthy negative emotions and may lead her to study harder from then on. Rational emotive behavior therapists have cited many studies in support of this approach. Cognitive therapists help clients to recognize the negative thoughts and errors in logic that cause them to be depressed. The therapist also guides clients to question and challenge their dysfunctional thoughts, try out new interpretations, and ultimately apply alternative ways of thinking in their daily lives.
As we confront the many situations that arise in life, both comforting and upsetting thoughts come into our heads. Quite often these negative thoughts will persist even in the face of contrary evidence.
The cognitive triad are three forms of negative i. These thoughts tended to be automatic in depressed people as they occurred spontaneously. As these three components interact, they interfere with normal cognitive processing, leading to impairments in perception, memory and problem solving with the person becoming obsessed with negative thoughts.
Beck believed that depression prone individuals develop a negative self-schema. They possess a set of beliefs and expectations about themselves that are essentially negative and pessimistic. Beck claimed that negative schemas may be acquired in childhood as a result of a traumatic event. Experiences that might contribute to negative schemas include:. So this means events that are very similar can be interpreted in different ways. This is due to the meaning different people can place on them.
But another person might think it has been given to them as a punishment for not working efficiently. They may even think it means they are being pushed to the limit, so that their company can find a reason to let them go.
They will then have fear as a driving force — and that will negatively affect their behavior. CBT aims to recognize and change patterns of thinking that are negative. If these can be replaced by positive thoughts it leads to positive feelings and beneficial changes in behavior.
They are distinct and yet also linked to one another. Since it was founded, CBT came to be known not only as a therapy but as the way to describe all cognitive-based therapies. REBT is based on the theory that emotional disturbances such as self-pity, shame, guilt, depression, stress and anxiety are largely self-constructed by our thoughts and belief systems. It seeks to address this often irrational self-defeating thinking. It was created in the s by psychologist and psychotherapist Albert Ellis Ellis was inspired by Greek, Asian, Roman and modern-day philosophers.
He explained that the major principle of REBT was that individuals are affected by their thinking about situations and events rather than the actual situation or event itself. So Ellis saw that people often have erroneous beliefs about an event or a situation they find themselves in.
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