Cognitive Distortions 1
"I am going to be stuck in treatment forever"
"Bobby is not going to have a future if he doesn't start listening to rules"
What is Catastrophization
Child: "I leveled up to silver!"
Parent: "it's too bad you couldn't participate in family therapy last week, we could have accomplished a lot".
What is disqualifying the positive
"If you were a better parent, I wouldn't have to be here"
"If you tried harder, you would feel better"
What is criticizing.
"If you make me go to school I will jump out of this car"
What is threatening
"if you didn't make me go to school, I wouldn't have been so anxious in history"
what is logical argument
"I had a hard time in class today, I can't do anything right"
What is overgeneralization
"I should have never trusted you"
What is "should" statements
"You are so ignorant"
What is name calling
"You should always tell the truth because lying makes you a bad person. Good people are honest, and I expect you to be one of them."
What is moralizing
"don't worry, this won't last forever"
"If I self harm, I won't feel pain anymore"
What is magical thinking
"I feel scared to interact with Sam. Sam must be a scary person"
What is emotional reasoning.
"you are are in the midst of an autist burnout, you didn't mean that"
What is diagnosing
"how was your day? what happened? why are you upset? what's wrong? I can tell that you are upset, why can't you just tell me what's going on?!?!"
What is excessive questioning
"You are diverting from the conversation!!!!"
What is judging
"Bobby is always so sad, it must be because of me".
"You never listen to me!"
What is all or nothing thinking. The use of "never", "always".
"you are so good when you behave"
What is praising evaluatively
"I think that you should just ignore the texts that are causing you anxiety"
What is advising
Which member of the herd has the strongest underbite?
Who is Murphy!
"He interrupted me, he must think my opinion doesn't matter"
What is jumping to conclusions/ mind reading
Who is the "escape artist of the farm"
Who is Jetroy.
"Put your phone down when you speak to me"
"why?"
"Because I said so"
What is ordering
"just try not to think about it, in a week you won't even remember what happened in math today"
what is diverting
What mentor has been working at Haven the longest?
Who is Mikey!