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Understanding Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) targets thinking and behavioral patterns to identify patterns of events and consequences as well as thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. CBT explores how feelings and behavior are influenced by thoughts. The ABC model used in CBT describes how external stimuli lead to subconscious thoughts and conscious effects. The ABC model breaks down events into activating events, beliefs, and consequences.

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Understanding Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) targets thinking and behavioral patterns to identify patterns of events and consequences as well as thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. CBT explores how feelings and behavior are influenced by thoughts. The ABC model used in CBT describes how external stimuli lead to subconscious thoughts and conscious effects. The ABC model breaks down events into activating events, beliefs, and consequences.

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Cognitive-behavioral Therapy: Review

Cognitive-behavioral Therapy, or CBT, represents a family of intervention styles and

CBT
strategies that target thinking and behavioral patterns. CBT works to identify the
patterns of events and consequences, and the thoughts, feelings and beliefs that exist
in-between. Specifically, CBT explores how feelings and behavior are influenced by
Cognitive-
thoughts.
behavioral
Therapy The ABC Model is used within CBT to describe how external stimuli lead to
subconscious thought, which has conscious effect.

A An Activating Event is the combination of a situation or moment that provokes a response, either
conscious or subconscious, and our perception of that situation or moment. While both the objective facts of
the event and our perception of it are part of the Activating Event, evaluation of that event is not.

B Beliefs are evaluations of reality. They filter Activating Events through one’s thoughts, attitudes, judgments,
values and “self-talk.” Beliefs can be rational or irrational, and they have a powerful effect on both how we
perceive events, and how we respond to them.

Rational Beliefs Irrational Beliefs


• consistent with reality • not based on reality
• can be supported by • not supported by evidence
objective evidence • expressed as demands, commands, “shoulds” and needs
• often expressed as
preferences, hopes,
wants or wishes
Awfulizing Shoulds, Evaluations of Need
Statements Oughts, Musts Human Worth Statements

The Ten Common Thinking Errors


• Absolutes • Statements of “Fact” • Loaded Words
• Can’t Statements • “Should” Statements • Blaming
• Rhetorical Questions • “Have to, Need to, Must” • “He, She, It” Statements
• Awfulizing Statements Statements

C Consequences are the emotional, physiological or behavioral responses that form out of the evaluations
of one’s Activating Events. Consequences can be experienced in terms of positive or negative outcomes.
Consequences often function as reinforcements for future Activating Events and Beliefs; in other words,
Consequences can trigger a new Activating Event.

Physiological Consequences Emotional Consequences Behavioral Consequences

Cognitive-behavioral Therapy - Review

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