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Cognitive Therapy Techniques
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This technique uses imagination to mentally rehearse coping with fears and stressful events.
Guided Imagery
A technique that involves identifying, challenging, and changing irrational beliefs.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
This practice involves systematically tensing and then relaxing different muscle groups in the body.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
In this technique, clients are asked to consider the worst-case, best-case, and most realistic outcomes of a situation.
Catastrophizing and Decatastrophizing
A technique where clients are gradually exposed to feared situations in a controlled way to reduce avoidance behavior.
Exposure Therapy
A method that involves acting out events and feelings to help understand and deal with complex emotions.
Role Playing
A mindfulness-based approach emphasizing nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment.
Mindfulness Meditation
Involves discussing and listing the pros and cons of a specific belief or behavior to facilitate cognitive change.
Decisional Balance Exercise
This technique involves breaking down overwhelming tasks into smaller, more manageable parts.
Graded Task Assignment
This technique involves questioning the evidence for a patient's negative beliefs and asking what evidence contradicts them.
Socratic Questioning
By acting in a way opposite to feared or avoided behaviors, this technique helps in reducing emotional responses.
Behavioral Experimentation
A reflection process where clients argue against their own negative beliefs or predictions.
Self-Argument
A communication technique that helps a person express themselves in a direct and assertive manner.
Assertiveness Training
A therapy metaphorically represented as 'an empty chair,' where clients engage in conversation with different parts of themselves or with absent others.
Gestalt Therapy
This technique involves using scales to rate the intensity of different thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Scaling
Using written exercises, clients express their thoughts and feelings related to traumatic events to process and gain control of their emotions.
Expressive Writing
This involves writing down thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to track patterns and identify distortions.
Thought Record or Thought Diary
This technique employs the identification and challenge of distorted thought patterns such as 'all-or-nothing' thinking.
Cognitive Restructuring
A technique for managing and reducing intense emotional discomfort by accepting, observing, and non-judgmentally focusing on the emotion.
Distress Tolerance
A technique in which people are trained to improve their cognitive ability by regularly engaging in assigned tasks.
Cognitive Remediation
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