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CBI LITERATURE 1



CORE CURRICULUM: COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL
INTERVENTIONS (LITERATURE)
Exam material

- Chapter 1 of the Wright, Basco, & Thase (2006/2017) book;

- Chapter 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 13 & 14 of the O’Donohue & Fisher (2012) book;

- The weblectures posted on Brightspace + the pdfs of the lectures posted on Brightspace;

- Additional literature posted with the lectures on Brightspace.




Week 1: Exposure and Cognitive Restructuring

Wright, Basco, & Thase (2017) Chapter 1: Basic Principles
of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

1.1 THE ORIGINS OF CBT
- CBT has two central tenets

> (1) our cognitions have a controlling influence on our emotions and behavior

> (2) how we behave can strongly affect our thought patterns and emotions

- Kelly: influenced CBT with his theory of personal constructs (core beliefs and self-schema’s)

- Ellis: also influenced CBT through rational-emotive therapy

- Beck: first to develop theories and methods for
CBT → first focussed on aberrant information
processing in depression and anxiety disorders

- Behavioral components of CBT came with the
application of behaviorist ideas

> Wolpe, Eysenck: pioneered in desensitization
and relaxation training

1.2 THE COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL MODEL
- Cognitive processing has a central role in cognitive
behavioral model

> Because humans continually appraise the
significance of events and cognitive appraisal is
associated with emotions

,CBI LITERATURE 2

> Behavior (e.g. avoidance) then reinforces negative thinking

1.3 BASIC CONCEPTS
- Three primary levels of cognitive processing:

> Consciousness (highest level) = state of awareness where decisions can be made on a
rational basis

> Automatic thoughts (intermediate level) = cognitions that stream rapidly through our minds,
may be subliminally aware but these thoughts are usually not subjected to rational analysis

> Schemas (lowest level) = core beliefs that act as templates for information processing →
allow us to screen, code, assign meaning

- CBT teaches clients to think about their thinking → brings automatic cognitions into conscious
control

- Automatic thoughts are private and unspoken, rapid-fire manner → generate painful emotional
reactions and dysfunctional behavior

> In depression, automatic thoughts center around themes of hopelessness, low self-esteem,
and failure

> In anxiety disorders automatic thoughts include predictions of danger, harm, uncontrollability,
or inability to cope

> Thought record = identifying automatic thoughts (event, automatic thought, emotions)

> Automatic thoughts can be logically sound and an accurate reflection of reality → in these
situations CBT does not aim to gloss over actual problems but to help cope

> Cognitive errors = there are characteristic errors in logic in the automatic thoughts

• Selective abstraction = conclusion drawn after looking at only a small portion of the
available information (also „ignoring the evidence“ or „mental filter“)

• Arbitrary inference = conclusion reached in the face of contradictory evidence

• Overgeneralization = conclusion made about isolates incident(s) and extended to cover
broad areas of functioning

• Magnification/minimization = significance of an attribute, event, sensation is
exaggerated or minimized

• Dichotomous/absolutistic thinking = judgements about oneself, personal experiences,
or others are placed into one of two categories (all bad or all good)

> There is overlap between cognitive errors → goal is not to identify each and every error in
logic that is occurring, but more that one is engaging in cognitive errors at all

- Schema’s are enduring, shape in early childhood and are influenced by lifetime experiences

> We need to develop schemas to efficiently manage the large amounts of information we
encounter → allows for timely decisions

> Three main groups of schema’s

• Simple schemas = rules about the physical nature of the environment, „take shelter
during a thunderstorm“ (have little effect on psychopathology)

,CBI LITERATURE 3

• Intermediary beliefs = conditional if-then statements that influence self esteem and
emotional regulation „I must be perfect to be accepted“

• Core beliefs = global and absolute rules for interpreting the environment related to self-
esteem, „I am unlovable“

> We all have a mixture of adaptive and maladaptive beliefs

> Stress-diasthesis hypothesis = maladaptive schema’s may remain dormant until a
stressful life event occurs that activates a core belief

• The activated schema then drives a more superficial information processing of negative
automatic thoughts

- Information processing in depression and anxiety disorders

> Hopelessness is the most important predictor of suicide → CBT that includes writing a
specific anti suicide plan reduces the risk of suicide

> Attributional style in depression

• Interval (vs. external) = taking excessive blame for negative events

• Global (vs. specific) = occurrences have far reaching implications

• Fixed (vs. changeable) = troubling situations are viewed as unlikely to improve

> Distortions in response to feedback

• Depressed = underestimate amount of positive feedback received, spend less effort on
tasks after they have been told to have performed poorly

• Nondepressed = positive self-serving bias, hear more positive feedback than is given and
downplay significance of negative feedback

> Thinking style in anxiety disorders

• Heightened level of attention to potential threats

• Fear that panic attacks themselves may have catastrophic consequences (heart attack)

> Learning, memory, cognitive capacity → impaired in both depression and anxiety

- Overview of therapy methods

> Therapy length and focus = typically 5-20 sessions, longer with more comorbidity/chronicity

• 25-50 minutes per session

• Patients with recurrent illnesses → front-loaded therapy (weekly visits in the beginning,
then booster sessions later)

> CBT primarily focussed on here and now but longitudinal perspective is critical to fully
understand the patient and treatment planning

> CBT is problem focussed → also beneficial to reduce dependence and regression in
therapeutic relationship

- Case conceptualization = carefully thought out strategy, guides each question, each
intervention, all adjustments we make to enhance communication

, CBI LITERATURE 4

- Therapeutic relationship = shares many aspects with other therapies but is unique in that it
oriented towards a high degree of collaboration and is more active than other therapies

> Collaborative empiricism = therapist and client work together as investigative team

> Patients also assumed to take responsibility in treatment relationship

- Socratic questioning = asking questions to stimulate curiosity and inquisitiveness, e.g. guided
discovery = series of deductive questions used to reveal dysfunctional thought patterns

- Structuring and psychoeducation

> CBT uses agenda setting and feedback to maximize efficiency of sessions → helps to not
divert from topic that was chosen focus of therapy

> Psychoeducation in the form of: self-help books, handouts, rating scales, computer programs

- Cognitive restructuring = help patients recognize and change maladaptive thoughts

> Can be done via thought records, examining the evidence, reattribution (modifying
attributional style), cognitive rehearsal (practicing a new way of thinking in role play)

- Behavioral methods = aimed at helping people break patterns of avoidance or helplessness,
gradually face feared situations, build on coping skills, reduce painful emotions or autonomic
arousal

> Can be done via behavioral activation, hierarchical exposure (systematic desensitization),
graded task assignments, activity scheduling, breathing training, relaxation training

- Building CBT skills to help prevent relapse = rehearsal techniques, discussion of possible
challenges and coaching on how to respond




O’Donohue & Fisher (2012) Chapter 1: The Core
Principles of Cognitive Behavior Therapy

- CBT has repeatedly been shown to be efficacious for a wide array of psychological problems

- Other CBT advantages are that is quicker and more scalable than other therapies

- CBT is manualized

> Deals with one disorder at a time and not with comorbidity

> Clinicians must thoroughly understand core principles in order to adjust them to comorbidity
or treatment preferences of clients

> In the packages, we don’t know what the active ingredients are → more process research is
needed to understand mechanisms of change

1.1 THERAPY IS NOT AN ART
- CBT views therapy not as art but at least in large part a technical enterprise that involves the
active ingredients of change (lol thought they didn’t know what these were)

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