Anything But Basic CBT
Aaron Beck developed this therapy model, emphasizing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This type of thinking error involves expecting the worst possible outcome.
Catastrophizing
This DBT module teaches individuals how to stay present in the moment.
Mindfulness
This concept, used in both CBT and DBT, involves gradually facing feared situations instead of avoiding them.
Exposure
This DBT intervention explicitly targets vulnerabilities like sleep, nutrition, and substance use before emotional crises occur.
PLEASE Skills
This behavioral strategy involves scheduling rewarding activities to combat depression.
Behavioural Activation
Believing you know what others are thinking without evidence is called this.
Mind Reading
A client plunges their face into cold water during a panic spike—this is part of:
TIPP
This DBT theory would explain chronic shame as the product of high emotional sensitivity plus repeated invalidation—not distorted thinking.
Biosocial Theory
This DBT stance allows that emotions can be both valid and maladaptive simultaneously.
Dialectics
In CBT, this structured tool helps clients track situations, thoughts, emotions, and alternative responses.
Thought Record
Predicting a negative outcome as if it’s guaranteed.
Fortune Telling
Client says, “I don’t want to use skills.” Therapist internally thinks: “This is a great time for…”
Opposite Action
A therapist says, “Let’s not change the thought—let’s change what you do next time it shows up.” This is more aligned with this therapy.
DBT
This concept is central to CBT and involves anticipating high-risk situations and coping responses.
Relapse Prevention
This CBT technique involves testing beliefs through real-world experiments rather than just talking about them.
Behavioural Experiments
Expecting perfection and criticizing anything less.
All-or-Nothing Thinking
This DBT phrase is often code for “this is really hard AND you still have to do it.”
Radical Acceptance
A therapist says, “Given your history, it makes complete sense you’d feel this way”—this is foundational to this DBT strategy.
Validation
What is the street address of our new office?
31 Ironstone
These deeply held beliefs about the self, others, and the world are central targets in CBT.
Core Beliefs
“I should always be calm and in control.”
Should Statement
In DBT, this prioritizes life-threatening behaviours first.
DBT Treatment Hierarchy
This process explains how avoidance behaviours maintain anxiety disorders through short-term relief.
Negative Reinforcement
What is our clinical lead's name?
Elisha