Definitions
You see things in black and white categories If a situation falls short of perfect, you see it as a total failure.
Polarized Thinking/ All or Nothing
When people assume they know what others are thinking
Mind Reading
Ben becomes terribly upset when he notices that his tire is flat. He tells himself, "Just my luck! Bad things like this are always happening to me."
Overgeneralization
It happens when you make a rule after a single event or a series of coincidences. The words "always" or "never" frequently appear in the sentence.
CBT stands for_____.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Coping skills are.....
The methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations
You see a single negative event as a never ending pattern of defeat by using words such as ‘always’ or “never” when you think about it.
Overgeneralization
Taking things personally when they’re not connected to or caused by you at all.
Personalization
Sally has been struggling to get along with her brother, parents, friends, and teammates. While venting to her best friend, Sally says, "I'm just being real and no one can take it."
Blaming
You focus on the other person as the source of your negative feelings and refuse to take responsibility for changing yourself.
What is another term for Cognitive Distortions?
Thinking Errors!
_____ are short, positive statements that can be repeated to yourself to help improve your confidence and build you up, even when things are hard.
Positive Affirmations
You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively, so that your vision of all of reality becomes darkened.
Mental Filtering
You tell yourself that things ought to be the way you hoped or expected them to be.
Should Statements
She did not say anything about my new haircut. She must think it is ugly!
Mind Reading
Take away the power of cognitive distortions by first ________ them.
Take away the power of cognitive distortions by first identifying them.
_____ is who I can talk to if I am struggling with cognitive distortions.
Therapist/ Support system
Any feeling must be true. The Emotion is accepted as fact because all logical reasoning is blocked.
Emotional Reasoning
Make conclusions and predictions with no evidence
Fortune Telling
Cynthia gives a presentation to her coworkers and receives many compliments, but also mild criticism from one of her peers. She obsesses about the criticism she received for days and ignores all the positive feedback.
Mental filter
Instead of taking one small event and generalizing it inappropriately like in overgeneralization, the mental filter takes small (negative) events and focuses on them exclusively, filtering out anything else.
CBT Triangle is.....
Where your thoughts>feelings>actions connect in a triangle
______ is a network of people who provide emotional or practical support.
Support System
leads people to dread or assume the worst when faced with the unknown
Catastrophizing
You exaggerate the importance of your problems and shortcomings, or you minimize the importance of your desirable qualities.
Magnification
She is moving to a new apartment because she does not like having me as a neighbor.
personalization
What are ANTS?
Automatic Negative Thoughts
Looking for alternative explanations, shades of gray, positive interpretations, and objective evidence is called_____.
Reframe