Key Concepts
This term is used in CBT to describe faulty or unhelpful thinking
What are Cognitive Distortions
When the counsellor and client work together to identify cognitive distortions and use evidence to disprove them.
What is collaborative empiricism?
Somatic counsellors focus on exploring and understanding the ways that their clients experience their _______?
What are bodies?
CBT largely ignores these things, which makes it helpful in solving immediate problems for many people.
What are religion, culture, ethnic background...
A somatic therapy that involves asking the student to focus on different parts of the body to promote relaxation and awareness.
What is a somatic body scan?
Derived from the Greek word meaning “body”, this term emphasizes the physical aspect of one’s health and well-being.
What is Somatic?
According to CBT, the way that you feel depends on this.
What are the thoughts that you have in the situation?
Name one thing that Somatic counsellors validate.
What are emotional experiences, struggles, and strengths.
CBT is heavily focused on the Individual and ideals such as assertiveness and independence, all of which are shared norms of this culture.
What is Western/European/Mainstream Canadian culture?
An Approach that uses CBT to support younger clients.
What is Integrative Play Therapy or Cognitive Behavioural Play Therapy?
The cognitive triangle demonstrates the interconnectedness between these three components of our emotional experience.
What are thoughts, behaviours and feelings?
This term describes the level that our body considers normal, which can be affected by trauma.
What is homeostasis?
The initials “TRE” represent this in the context of somatic therapy.
What are trauma release exercises?
The fact that the mental maps of our bodies and our body experiences may not be the same as other people's may not be obvious to some practitioners because of this outdated mindset.
What is Colonialism?
Effective ways that school counsellors can incorporate CBT into their sessions with younger students.
What are games, story-telling, and drama?
A term for the counselling theory that emphasizes the mind-body connection, especially the influence of bodily sensations on psychological well-being?
What is Somatic Theory?
The three corners of the CBT triangle.
What are thought, actions, emotions?
Two somatic techniques frequently utilized by therapists.
What are breath work, art, movement, TRE, etc...
According to Somatic theory and many others, this remnant of Colonialism continues to traumatize people from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
What is racism?
A technique often utilized with school-aged students to promote regulation, it involves inhaling, holding, exhaling, and holding again in equal counts.
What is square breathing?
Which psychologist wrote a book called Character Analysis on somatic theory, proposing that unresolved emotional experiences could manifest as physical symptoms?
Who is Wilhelm Reich?
Therapies for releasing trauma tend to focus on connecting these things.
What are the body and the mind?
CBT primarily focuses on things that are in the past, present, or future.
What is the present?
Trauma is often seen as something in the client's past, but for people from diverse backgrounds, these types of trauma are ongoing.
What are colonialism and racism?
This is the most important thing to do.
What is the thing that you are afraid of?