CBT
What does "CBT" stand for?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
What are the three types of reassurance seeking?
1. Self-Reassurance
2. Reassurance Seeking from Others
3. Research Reassurance
What does ERP stand for? Why is it helpful for OCD?
Exposure Response Prevention
It exposes you to your trigger in hopes of changing your response
What does OCD stand for?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Name one example of a grounding technique
5-4-3-2-1, Categories, Body Awareness and Mental Exercises
What are the three areas of focus of CBT?
Thoughts, Feelings, Behaviors
Which type of reassurance has been known to be the most difficult to resist?
Self-Reassurance
What do we use to determine which exposures we complete first?
Exposure Hierarchy
What is an obsession?
A reoccurring thought that causes distress
When you are practicing mindfulness, what are you focusing on?
The present
CBT and _______ is the best treatment for OCD
ERP
What are the four parts of the OCD Cycle
1. Obsession
2. Anxiety
3. Compulsion
4. Temporary Relief
What is a compulsion?
An unhealthy response to an obsession to make you feel less distressed
What does TIPP stand for?
Temperature, Intense Exercise, Pace Breathing, Paired Muscle Relaxation
The CBT Model tells us that changes in our ______ and ______ will lead to a change in our _______
1. thoughts 2. behavior 3. emotions
What are some differences between information-seeking and reassurance seeking?
An information-seeker:
•Asks a question once
•Asks questions to be informed
•Accepts the answer provided
•Asks people who are qualified to answer the question
•Ask questions that are answerable
•Seeks the truth
•Accepts relative, qualified, or uncertain answers when appropriate
•Pursues only the information necessary to form a conclusion or make a decision
A reassurance-seeker:
•Repeatedly asks the same question
•Asks questions to feel less anxious
•Responds to an answer by challenging the answerer, arguing, or insisting the answer be repeated or rephrased
•Often asks people who are unqualified to answer the question
•Often asks questions that are unanswerable
•Seeks a desired answer
•Insists on absolute, definitive answers whether appropriate or not
•Indefinitely pursues information without ever forming a conclusion or making a decision
What are the four parts of the Anxiety Cycle?
Trigger-Avoidance-Temporary Relief-Anxiety Growth
What is the best treatment for OCD?
CBT AND ERP
Explain Opposite Action and give one example
Whatever your OCD tells you, you do the opposite.
Explain how CBT works and what it believes
Your thoughts, feeling, and behaviors all interact. When you can change one you can change them all
Why do we seek reassurance?
Intolerance of Uncertainty
Name three unhelpful thought patterns
All or Nothing Thinking, Mental Filter, Jumping to Conclusions, Emotional Reasoning, Labelling, Personalization, “should, must, ought”, Magnification & Minimization, Disqualifying the positive and Over-generalizing
What is rumination?
The act of focusing on negative thoughts that lead to overwhelming dread and worry.
What skills improve distress tolerance?
STOP, Pros and Cons, Self-soothe, Improve the moment, Body scan meditation