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CBT, ACT, and The Skills of Self
Direction
Column Lecture 1 Lecture 2
Done?
Evaluation Quiz 1
Tags WEEK 1
Questions
Cognitive behavioral aims to help clients reduce their distress by changing the
content and form of their thoughts and emotions in response to aversive
events. True)
In CBT, the focus of treatment is acceptance of one’s experience with no
judgement. False)
From an ACT perspective, the experience of unpleasant and distressful
experiences are avoidable. False)
The overall goal of ACT is to promote psychological inflexibility. False)
In self-modification, there is no difference between knowing ideas and
applying ideas to practical life. False)
Cognitive Bx Therapy (CBT)
What is the purpose/aim of CBT?
CBT, ACT, and The Skills of Self Direction 1
, Aims > help clients reduce their distress by changing the content and form of
their thoughts and emotions in response to aversive events.
What are some common treatments included in CBT?
Psychoeducation on the nature of fear/anxiety
Self-monitoring of symptoms
Relaxation/breathing retraining
Cognitive restructuring, i.e., logical empiricism and disconfirmation
Bx exmperiments
What is Cognitive restructuring?
Clients learn >challenge the absolute truth of anxious thoughts by:
noting evidence for and against the thought
identifying cognitive errors the thought reflects
developing alternative thoughts that better reflect the full range of their
experience
What are behavioural experiments included in CBT?
serve to directly challenge anxiety-related predictions by helping clients
approach feared stimuli and predicting whether disastrous results occur
What is response prevention?
exposes clients to feared stimuli contexts, while preventing anxiety reducing
and avoidant bxs
Mechanisms of Change in CBT
CBT is an active, collaborative, problem solving oriented, and relatively short-
term treatment
Thee defining feature of CT is the assumption that therapeutic effects are
mediated by changes in:
Cognition, i.e., thoughts, beliefs, schemas
Corresponding emphasis on cognitive change efforts
CBT, ACT, and The Skills of Self Direction 2
, What is the fundamental purpose of cognitive strategies?
Is to effect a change in dysfunctional cognitive structures
💡 In CBT, the focus of treatment is the alteration/restructuring of
distressing thoughts/feelings/bxs
Contextual Behavioural Science
What is the "contextual bx science"?
Is a scientific approach that is inductive, which attempts to build more
adequate psychological systems based on philosophical clarity.
How does it builds more adequate pscyh systems?
Developing basic principles and theories
Developing of applied theories linked to based ones
Building techniques and components linked to these processes and
principles
Measuring of theoretically key processes
What's the emphasis on contextual bx science?
Emphasizing on mediation and moderation in the analysis of applied
impact
Interest in effectiveness, dissemination, training
Empirical testing of research program across a broad range of areas and
levels of analysis
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
(ACT)
CBT, ACT, and The Skills of Self Direction 3
, What is ACT?
A bx and cognitive intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness
processes, and commitment and bx change processes > produce
psychological flexibility
What does its treatment attempts to do?
Treatment attempts to build the acceptance and mindfulness processes
that undermine excessive literality and
Create more conscious, present, flexible approach to psych
experiences
Strengthen the commitment and bx change processes that enhance
values-based action
ACT in Practice
Cuz of the nature of language itself, trying to undermine literality using literal
language is difficult and can easily lead to more entanglement in the name of
undersanding
Therefore, ACT focuses heavily on experiential exercises in which clients are
are encouraged to come into contact with psychological processes more
directly
Theory and Psychopathology
The unique abilities of the human mind.
What is functional contextualism?
A philosophical perspective that
attempts to account for human
cognition and language with bx
analytic principles.
Relational Frame Theory RFT is
the theorical basis of ACR, is
CBT, ACT, and The Skills of Self Direction 4
CBT, ACT, and The Skills of Self
Direction
Column Lecture 1 Lecture 2
Done?
Evaluation Quiz 1
Tags WEEK 1
Questions
Cognitive behavioral aims to help clients reduce their distress by changing the
content and form of their thoughts and emotions in response to aversive
events. True)
In CBT, the focus of treatment is acceptance of one’s experience with no
judgement. False)
From an ACT perspective, the experience of unpleasant and distressful
experiences are avoidable. False)
The overall goal of ACT is to promote psychological inflexibility. False)
In self-modification, there is no difference between knowing ideas and
applying ideas to practical life. False)
Cognitive Bx Therapy (CBT)
What is the purpose/aim of CBT?
CBT, ACT, and The Skills of Self Direction 1
, Aims > help clients reduce their distress by changing the content and form of
their thoughts and emotions in response to aversive events.
What are some common treatments included in CBT?
Psychoeducation on the nature of fear/anxiety
Self-monitoring of symptoms
Relaxation/breathing retraining
Cognitive restructuring, i.e., logical empiricism and disconfirmation
Bx exmperiments
What is Cognitive restructuring?
Clients learn >challenge the absolute truth of anxious thoughts by:
noting evidence for and against the thought
identifying cognitive errors the thought reflects
developing alternative thoughts that better reflect the full range of their
experience
What are behavioural experiments included in CBT?
serve to directly challenge anxiety-related predictions by helping clients
approach feared stimuli and predicting whether disastrous results occur
What is response prevention?
exposes clients to feared stimuli contexts, while preventing anxiety reducing
and avoidant bxs
Mechanisms of Change in CBT
CBT is an active, collaborative, problem solving oriented, and relatively short-
term treatment
Thee defining feature of CT is the assumption that therapeutic effects are
mediated by changes in:
Cognition, i.e., thoughts, beliefs, schemas
Corresponding emphasis on cognitive change efforts
CBT, ACT, and The Skills of Self Direction 2
, What is the fundamental purpose of cognitive strategies?
Is to effect a change in dysfunctional cognitive structures
💡 In CBT, the focus of treatment is the alteration/restructuring of
distressing thoughts/feelings/bxs
Contextual Behavioural Science
What is the "contextual bx science"?
Is a scientific approach that is inductive, which attempts to build more
adequate psychological systems based on philosophical clarity.
How does it builds more adequate pscyh systems?
Developing basic principles and theories
Developing of applied theories linked to based ones
Building techniques and components linked to these processes and
principles
Measuring of theoretically key processes
What's the emphasis on contextual bx science?
Emphasizing on mediation and moderation in the analysis of applied
impact
Interest in effectiveness, dissemination, training
Empirical testing of research program across a broad range of areas and
levels of analysis
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
(ACT)
CBT, ACT, and The Skills of Self Direction 3
, What is ACT?
A bx and cognitive intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness
processes, and commitment and bx change processes > produce
psychological flexibility
What does its treatment attempts to do?
Treatment attempts to build the acceptance and mindfulness processes
that undermine excessive literality and
Create more conscious, present, flexible approach to psych
experiences
Strengthen the commitment and bx change processes that enhance
values-based action
ACT in Practice
Cuz of the nature of language itself, trying to undermine literality using literal
language is difficult and can easily lead to more entanglement in the name of
undersanding
Therefore, ACT focuses heavily on experiential exercises in which clients are
are encouraged to come into contact with psychological processes more
directly
Theory and Psychopathology
The unique abilities of the human mind.
What is functional contextualism?
A philosophical perspective that
attempts to account for human
cognition and language with bx
analytic principles.
Relational Frame Theory RFT is
the theorical basis of ACR, is
CBT, ACT, and The Skills of Self Direction 4
