CBT
What does CBT stand for?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Believing that you know what someone else is thinking or the motivation behind their behaviors.
What is Mind Reading?
Making a really big deal out of something small, or making something a little bit bad seem like the worst thing ever.
What is Magnification or Minimization?
In a basketball game, how many players from each team are on the court at the same time?
5
What are the three elements to the Cognitive Triangle?
Thoughts, Feelings and Behaviors
Blaming yourself for anything that goes wrong around you, or that your are personally responsible for an event, even if you had nothing to do with it.
Personalization or Self-Blame
Having a negative belief about yourself or others and thinking it applies to everything you or they do.
What is Labeling?
How many bones do sharks have?
How is CBT useful?
CBT helps identify negative thought patterns or behaviors in an effort to recognize and restructure them. CBT can help you change how you approach a situation.
Believing that if you feel something, it must be true. You assume that negative emotions reflect the way things really are.
Emotional Reasoning or Feelings as facts.
Believing things have to be a certain way. Instead of accepting things the way they are, you tell yourself that they should have been the way you hoped or expected them to be.
What are "Should" statements?
In a website browser address bar, what does "www" stand for?
What is the "world wide web?"
What is a negative thought?
A thought that is harmful. Can be self-defeating and irrational.
You pay more attention to bad things and ignore when something good happens. You feel you just got lucky.
Discounting or disqualifying the positive
Thinking that you must be perfect in everything you do, otherwise your no good.
What is All or Nothing Thinking? Or seeing in "black and white."
Which month does not have a holiday?
August
Who created CBT?
*Hint: a clue is on your thought record worksheet!
Aaron Beck
Thinking you know what will happen in the future, and that it will be bad or possibly the worst case scenario.
Catastrophizing or Fortune Telling.
Daily Double!!!
Which thinking trap do you relate too most and why?
Answer may vary.
What is Eminem's real name?
Marshall Mathers