Cognitive Behavior therapy/ Reality Therapy

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Who: Developed by Dr. Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy (CT), or Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

form of psychotherapy

•   Therapists use the Cognitive Model to help clients overcome their difficulties by changing their thinking, behavior, and emotional responses.

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  Who:  Donald Meichenbaum, Born 1940 

• Founder of Cognitive Behavior Modification

• Expert in the treatment of PTSD

• Elected by his peers as one of the most influential psychotherapists of the century

• Developed therapy aimed towards cognition and behavior

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• Goals of Approach

• Help clients confront faulty beliefs and reduce them

• Find evidence contradictory to those beliefs

• learn to recognize faulty beliefs and confront them

• be aware of automatic thoughts and change them

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• Key Concepts

• even though problems may stem from childhood, they are reinforced by present ways of thinking

• the clients belief system is primary cause of disorder

• what a client thinks has a lot to do with what he believes

• Client focus should be on faulty ideas and misconceptions then replace those ideas with correct or effective beliefs

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  Techniques     

• A variety of techniques have been successful such as cognitive, emotive and behavioral.

•  needs to be designed to fit individual needs

• therapy needs to be active, directive, person-centered, time limited, psychoeducational and structured

• Client needs to keep records of activities at home and then form alternative thinking.

• help client learn new coping skills

• confront faulty or irrational beliefs and change thinking

• teach client how to perform self-instructional training along with stress reducing techniques

• Links;

• www.beckinstitute.org/

   

 

Reality Therapy

• Who:    William Glasser
• Developed Reality therapy in 1960's
• Rejected Freudian model and held people responsible for their behavior
• Believed in talking to the sane side of a client
• Client controls behavioral choices
• Robert E. Wubbold
• Extended reality therapy with the concept of WDEP system
• Attended workshops by William Glasser
• Introduced Reality and Choice theory in Europe, Asia and Middle East
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  Goals of Approach  
• To help client become effective in meeting all of their psychological needs
• Help client to re-establish relations with people they consider important
• Teach client choice theories
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  Key Concepts  
• teach client how to evaluate present activities and actions to see if they are working for them
• Do not dwell on the past
• Learn the five basic needs and evaluate if client is able to meet those needs successfully
• Help client have a workable plan in place
• Techniques 
• Skilled questioning 
• Use active and directive dialogue to help client evaluate actions and choices
• teach clients how to design a specific plan for changes and commitment to follow through
• Links;
•     www.csun.edu/~hcpsy002/Psy460_Ch11_Handout2_ppt.pdf