четверг, 12 мая 2016 г.

Choose Cognitive Behavioral Therapy To Achieve Goals Quickly

By Stephen Schmidt


The type of therapy known as cognitive behavioral, or CBT, is a practical form of short term counseling. It focuses on reaching goals by changing patterns of thinking. The beliefs that a person holds as absolute truth are not necessarily factual. These inaccurate beliefs may be preventing the patient from viewing the truth as it really is. This successful method, cognitive behavioral therapy, is practiced in New Jersey and other places.

You can think of CBT as a type of psychotherapy. It quickly identifies a problem and plans a way to change it. The inaccurate beliefs held by some cannot be recognized on their own. With CBT, they will be able to.

One single factor that makes this short-term therapy successful is the immediate recognition of the problem. It sets a reasonable goal and achieves it in a predetermined number of sessions. If the patient holds the belief that he will never amount to anything, this inaccurate belief will be changed. By changing it, he will be free to become a success.

The CBT therapist helps her identify the wrong belief she holds. If she cannot apply for a good job it might be that she does not believe she is good enough. Once that negative belief is changed to a positive one, she will know that she can not only get the job, but be good at it.

No time is wasted figuring out why she has this negative belief. Instead, time and effort are spent changing it to a positive one. CBT does not focus on past events. It deals with what is wrong in the present and how to make it right.

If someone if afraid of dogs, it is probably because they were bitten. If the fear makes it impossible to form a relationship with a dog owner, there is no way he will give up his dog. Although the patient may never be a big fan of dogs, she will be able to allow the relationship to develop even though it means she will have a dog in her life.

Counseling may begin by talking about dogs and focusing on why people love their pets. Looking at pictures of all the breeds may be the next step. She may be assigned the homework of driving to a dog park, sitting in her car and watching the interaction of owners with their dogs and dogs to each other.

Next she may be given the assignment to walk down the sidewalk and pass a dog on a leash. She will accept feeling uncomfortable and repeat the process a number of times. Eventually, she will visit a friend who has a dog, reach down and pet it. She might gradually pet larger and larger dogs.

Homework assignments are an integral part of CBT. She may be asked to visit a humane society and walk past dogs that are confined. She may develop an empathy for the ones who do not find a forever home. If she is unable to love them, she may at least tolerate being in close proximity with them.

Soon she may reach the goal of being able to tolerate her partners dog. She may even learn to like the pet after some time passes. Most importantly, she will not reject her partner just because he loves and intends to keep his beloved dog.




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