Chapter One: Getting familiar with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This has the initials CBT
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
The initials GAD stand for this.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
No two experiences of these are the same.
What are depression and anxiety?
Many things like losses (jobs, relationships, loved ones) and major stresses can lead to this.
What is depression?
Many of our emotional reactions come from this.
What is how we think about things that happen?
The 3 element that effect each other are _______, _______ and ________.
What are thoughts, feelings and behaviors?
Women are about __________ percent more likely to have an anxiety disorder than men.
What is 70.
We all have these that have kept us going, and they can get us through new challenges.
What are strengths?
Changing our behavior can "_______" changes in our thinking.
"Jump Start"
Often we are afraid of our own _______.
What is fear?
These principles of CBT include (there are 8 of them).
What is time limited, evidence based, goal oriented, collaborative, structured, focused on the present, an active treatment, skills oriented and emphasizes practice
In some cases, the anxiety and avoidance of this disorder are so strong that a person will stop going out of the house at all, sometimes for years.
What is Agoraphobia?
These six areas help to understand the ways that anxiety and depression may be affecting your life.
What is relationships, education and career, faith/meaning/expansion, physical health, recreation/relaxation and domestic responsibilities?
Doing the right kind of activities tends to have this effect.
What is an antidepressant?
This common theme in depressed thinking that leads to and attitude of "Why bother" where our reasoning is "If nothing we do makes things better" can often feed itself.
What is hopelessness?
The premise of cognitive therapy is that maladies like anxiety and depression are driven by this.
What is our thoughts?
A person has to either feel down for most of the day or lose interest in almost all activities for at least two weeks to be diagnosed with this.
What is major depressive disorder.
This is important to review several times a week.
What are goals?
There is no time when we say we have completed this.
What is beautifying our lives?
A person with GAD may believe that this is a useful exercise.
What is worrying?
The Greek philosopher Epictetus wrote "people are not disturbed by things but by the view they take of them" wrote this about _________ ago.
What is nearly 2000 years ago?
Each type of depression can have one of several specifiers or labels that tell us more about the nature of depression that include...(Name 7)
What are single episode vs recurrent episodes, Mild/moderate/severe, with anxiety distress, with melancholic features, with A typical features, with periparum onset, with seasonal pattern.
These words have an acronym of SMART for goal setting. (not in the packets)
What are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.
This metaphor is perfect for CBT as we often know in advance what's going to challenge us to abandon our intentions
What is binding yourself to the mast?
The driving thought in this is that you'll do something to embarrass yourself around other people.
What is social anxiety disorder?