Definitions
Faulty or inaccurate thinking, perception, or belief
Cognitive distortion
Forecasting
A type of thinking where instead of naming a person's negative error, a person is given a negative label
Labeling
Blaming
What does CBT stand for?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This thinking occurs when something is enlarged or altered to be better or worse than it actually is
Exaggerating
"I shouldn't have eaten that"
Judging
A type of thinking that presumes to know another person's thoughts, feelings, intentions, motivations, or other internal processes, often with few observable facts
Mind-reading
"I wasn't fully meal plan compliant at lunch, none of the other times I was compliant matter and neither does all of the effort I put in at lunch"
Discounting the positive
What does DBT stand for?
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
A type of thinking where positive experiences are rejected by insisting they don't count for some reason
Discounting the positive
"If I fail this test, I'll fail 10th grade, I'll fail high school, and I'll never get a job"
Catastrophizing
A type of thinking that says because we feel it, it must be real and therefore negative feelings reflect our reality
Feelings are facts/emotional reasoning
"I feel like I don't deserve treatment so I know that's true"
Feelings are facts/emotional reasoning
Name a skill you could use at the table
Radical acceptance, mechanical eating, opposite action, etc
Also known as "should statements", a type of thinking that is critical of self or other for what a person is 'supposed' to do
Judging
You get denied something you wanted - "This is the worst day of my life"
Exaggerating
A pattern of thinking that expects disaster to strike or for the worst possible outcome to happen
Catastrophizing
"My friend didn't text me back, I know they're mad at me"
Mind-reading
What are the three points of the triangle in CBT?
Thoughts, feelings/emotions, behaviors/actions
A type of thinking that distorts the severity or details of a situation
Magnification and minimization
"They were only nice to me because they had to be, not because they actually like me"
Discounting the positive
Also known as "what if" thinking, a type of thinking where it is predicted that events will end badly
Forecasting
"I'm already not getting choice snack tomorrow so I might as well not try at all"
All or nothing thinking
Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, time-bound