COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY CBT

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COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY (CBT)
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OVERVIEW

• What is CBT
• The ideas underpinning CBT
• Processes involved in CBT
• CBT OT
• Skills for your video demonstration
• Practical exercises

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What is CBT?

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on
  helping people to
• Identify their thinking patterns
• Identify their emotional responses to the world
• Understand their behaviour and how it is
  influenced by their thoughts
• Broaden their knowledge
• Improve ability to problem solve

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The ideas underpinning CBT
Learning experiences ? Schema (basic rules for
living) ? incident or event something
happens that activates the rules for living ?
negative thoughts (automatic) We are what we say
to ourselves in response to the
event. ? responses as a result of negative
thoughts include emotions physical
behaviours Cognitive distortions
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Focus of CBT intervention

• Intervention focuses on behavioral and cognitive
  strategies
• Example of behavioral strategy are activities
  which enable the person to experience being
  capable
• Example of cognitive strategy is challenging
  irrational thoughts and thinking

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Processes involved in CBT

• This is not necessarily a linear process
• 1. Engage the person
• 2. Offer interactive education opportunities
• 3. Assist with developing self management
  strategies
• 4. Set goals
• 5. Engage in problem solving
• 6. Assessment and intervention
• Cognitive
• Behavioral
• 7. Establish ongoing processes

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CBT OT

• Shared characteristics
• Uniqueness of individual experience
• Collaborative relationship
• Valuing cognitive awareness and problem solving
• Use of tasks or activities in intervention
• Use of practice in various settings to increase
  generalisation

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SKILLS YOU COULD DEMONSTRATE FOR YOUR VIDEO
ASSIGNMENT

• Discussing with a client the use of activity
  planning
• Working with the process of challenging upsetting
  thoughts
• Working with the process of challenging upsetting
  events.
• Introducing the idea of self monitoring to the
  client and discussing ways the client could get
  into the habit of dealing with stress and early
  warning signs.

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Practical exercises commence 10am

• You will be exploring 3 aspects of using CBT. We
  are not able to explore all possible
  interventions so these have been chosen to give
  you a spread of options
• Self Management
• Assessment and Intervention Cognitive
• Assessment and Intervention Behavioural
• CBT is a method, which can be useful for
  everyone. Some of the exercises are for you to
  try out for yourself, other activities ask you to
  consider application with other people or to
  explore concepts and issues in the CBT approach.

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• Divide into 12 groups (maximum of 6 people per
  group) and you will spend 35 minutes on each of
  the 3 packages provided.
• Tutors will move between the groups and also be
  time