CBT- Key Terms 100% Correct

CBT- Key Terms 100% Correct A-B-C Model the construct stating that one's problems do not originate from events but from the beliefs one holds about those events. Changing one's beliefs is the best way to change negative feelings Arbitrary Inferences the distorted view of making conclusions without the basis of supporting and relevant exidence; part of Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy. Automatic thoughts ideas (usually outside one's awareness) triggered by a particular event that lead to emotional reactions Cognitive Errors misconceptions and wrong assumptions on the part of the client Cognitive Homework the process used to help a client learn to cope with anxiety and challenge irrational thinking Cognitive restructuring the process of replacing negative thoughts with positive thoughts and beliefs Cognitive Therapy a type of therapty focused on changing negative behavior by changing false thinking and beliefs Collaborative Empiricism a concept from Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy that views the client as capable of making objective interpretations of his or her behavior, with the collaboration of the therapist Coping Skills Program a set of procedures to help clients cope with stressful situations by changing their thinking Disputational Methods a method taught to clients in RET to help them challenge irrational beliefs Distortion of Reality inaccurate thinking causing one to act irrationally, emotionally, and subjectively Internal Dialogue/Inner Speech the process used to recognize irrational thoughts Irrational Belief an unreasonable thought leading to emotinal problems Label and Mislabeling the distorted view of basing one's identity on imperfections and mistakes made in the past. Musturbation the word used by Albert Ellis to descrbe beliefs grounded in musts, shoulds, and oughts; a rigid and absolute way of thinking Overgeneralization the distortied process of forming rigid beliefs based on a single event and then appying them to subsequent events Personalization the tendency of individuals to relate events to themselves when there is no basis for this connection Polarized thinking a cognitive error based on an all-or-nothing framework. There are no gray areas in polarized thinking Rationality a way of thinking that will help us attain our goals Role Playing the process of helping a client work through irrational beliefsby practicing new behaviors Selective Abstraction the distorted view of forming conclusions based on an isolated detail of an event Self-Instructional Therapy the concept that the self-talk an individual indulges in directly relates to the things he or she does in everyday life. The therapy consists of training the client to modify self-talk, a form of cognitive restructuring or cognitive-behavior modification developed by Donald Meichenbaum Shame- Attacking Exercises a technique of RET encouraging the individual to do things about which he or she feels shame without believing he or she is foolish or without becoming embarrassed Stress-Inoculation Training a cognitive-behavior modification technique aimed at giving the client the coping tools to restructure the thoughts that lead to stress, and to rehearse the behavior changes in order to solve the emotional problems caused by stressful situations