Tools & Techniques
Going on a rollercoaster as someone with a fear of heights
What is Exposure Therapy?
Deciding what to focus on at the beginning of a session
What is Agenda Setting?
The core idea of CBT
What is the connection between our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors?
A structured schedule of weekly tasks
What is Activity Planning?
A theory that supports lasting change and healthy habits within the family system
What is Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy?
Identifying and challenging automatic negative thoughts about a partner
What is Cognitive Restructuring?
Assigning a client a task to complete outside of session
What is Homework?
The father of CBT
Who is Aaron T. Beck?
Identifying, exploring, and ranking important aspects of one's life
What is Values Rating?
A theory that focuses on how intergenerational trauma affects the family structure
What is Bowenian family therapy?
Documenting repetitive thoughts that evoke particular emotions (ex: taking note of every time I feel like someone does not like me)
What are Thought Records?
Continuing to use the interventions learned in session at home
What is Skill Practice?
The decade CBT was developed
What are the 1960s?
Focusing on the present moment; being in tune with one's current thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations
What is mindfulness?
A theory in which clients become their own support system
What is CBT?
Practicing learned skills in a simulated scenario with a therapist
What is Role-Playing?
Reflecting on client progress at the end of the session
What is Summary?
Focusing on how thoughts and behaviors affect a system rather than an individual
What is Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy?
Logging situations and feelings to identify thought patterns
What are Thought Records?
A theory with attainable and measurable goals
What is CBT?
Making plans with a friend to increase mood
What is Behavioral Activation?
In-session work (roleplaying, self-monitoring, activity scheduling)
What is Intervention Work?
Quick, repetitive, influential ways of thinking in response to a situation
What are Automatic Thoughts?
*BONUS*
Tracking physical sensations that coincide with thoughts and behaviors
What is Physiological Monitoring?
A theory that explores past experiences to explain current behaviors within the family system
What is Psychodynamic Family Therapy?