OUTLINE
OBJECTIVE
INTRODUCTION
PRINCIPLES
TECHNIQUES
INDICATIONS
CONTRAINDICATIONS
PRACTICE
CLINICAL VIGNETTE
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy developed by Aaron ‘Tim’ Beck in the 1960s.
CBT helps people to learn how to identify and change maladaptive thought patterns that have a negative influence on behaviour and emotions.
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” — Epictetus
“It’s not the situations in our lives that cause distress, but rather our interpretations of those situations.” — Aaron T. Beck
According to Aaron T. Beck in his book, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders, psychological problems may result from commonplace processes such as:
Faulty learning;
Making incorrect inferences on the basis of inadequate or incorrect information;
Not distinguishing adequately between imagination and reality;
Thought processes occurring as a result of erroneous premises;
Behaviours that are self-defeating because they are based on unreasonable attitudes.