{"id":2586,"date":"2013-07-30T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T11:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/counsellingtu.onpressidium.com\/?page_id=2586"},"modified":"2021-11-09T05:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T05:09:40","slug":"cognitive-behavioural","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/counsellingtutor.com\/cognitive-behavioural\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Behavioural"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy<\/h1>\n\t

Cognitive-behavioural therapy, or CBT,\u00a0is a structured approach to counselling which helps clients reduce unhelpful thinking and modify\u00a0self-defeating behaviour<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The underpinning idea in\u00a0CBT theory<\/a> is that our thoughts, feelings and our responses are connected.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Cognitive\n\t

It follows that if we can alter the way we think, we are better able to control our emotions and behaviour.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t

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History of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy<\/h2>\n\t

CBT is strongly linked to American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck’s cognitive therapy<\/strong> (CT) which he developed in the 1960s.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Cognitive\n\t\tAaron T Beck\n\t

Beck decided that\u00a0psychoanalytical approaches, especially around anger, put too much emphasis on past events<\/em> rather than current thinking<\/em>\u00a0(such as the belief you will never find a partner or gain employment).<\/p>\n

Beck developed the idea that the therapist, as well as disputing a client’s irrational thinking, could ‘educate’ them out of distress. He developed a series of educational programs which asked the client to check their thinking against reality<\/em>.<\/p>\n\t

Using worksheets and self-assessments, the client with the help of a therapist, slowly replaces negative thinking with more positive ideas of how they experience the world and themselves.<\/p>\n\t

Who influenced Aaron Beck?<\/h3>\n\t

Beck’s CT and the development of CBT has its roots in the work of Albert Ellis<\/strong>, an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ellis was a shy child. As a young man, he decided to challenge his fear of meeting the opposite sex by walking around Central Park in New York and speaking to 100 young women in one day.<\/p>\n\t

Ellis believed that confronting irrational thinking was the best way of changing beliefs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The most significant influence on Ellis was the ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus who practised Stoicism. Stoicism believes that:<\/p>\n