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What view does CBT take? Answer - That disorders are down to cognitive factors.
Maladaptive cognitions maintain emotional distress and behavioural problems and it
comes from schemas that we have about the world, oneself and the future.
What is CBT? Answer - A therapy that combines cognitive and behaviourist aspects. It's
main focuses are to challenge and change distorted thinking.
What are the four basic underlying assumptions CBT is based on? Answer - Patients
respond to their own interpretation of themselves and the world.
Thoughts, behaviours and feelings are all interrelated and influence each other.
In order for therapy to be successful it needs to clarify and change the way people think
about themselves and world.
Desirable to change the patient's thoughts and behaviour.
What is one of the main reasons for using CBT with schizophrenia? Answer - That
drugs don't address all the symptoms, particularly the negative symptoms. CBT
addresses thinking and behaviour involved in schizophrenia and the cognitive
processes such as problems with working memory.
What is assumed by researchers like Alford who claim that psychotic symptoms can be
helped by cognitive interventions? Answer - That how someone experiences and
expresses their psychotic symptoms can be modified by psychological intervention
which aims to reduce stress experienced on coping mechanisms as opposed to
targeting psychological issues such as delusions.
What does cognitive behavioural therapy involve? Answer - One-to-one sessions
between a therapist and patient that occur weekly over a number of weeks. There is a
collaboration where the patient works with the therapist to discuss specific symptoms.
What are the four things CBT approaches? Answer - Belief modification.
Focusing and reattribution.
Normalising.
Cognitive therapy following an acute phase.
What is belief modification? Answer - Where delusional thinking is challenged directly
and the patient's 'evidence' for the delusional beliefs is explored and challenged.
What is focusing and reattribution? Answer - It looks at auditory hallucinations to reduce
the frequency of the voices and reduce the stress they create. Therapist focuses on
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