The adolescent years are challenging even in relatively problem-free famiies. All bets are off, and what had been true for ten or eleven years is suddenly not true. The well-behaved child now questions every directive, forgets chores, and loses homework. The good-natured, sweet girl now tortures her younger sister and screams at…
How CBT Was Born
Mary Cover Jones used behavior therapy with fearful children in the 1920s, and in the late 1930s, an American psychiatrist, Abraham Low, used cognitive training for psychiatric aftercare of patients following their release from hospitals. One can see that the threads of what later became CBT were separate during the early years…
Is your mental health damaging your life?
Can you imagine a life in which you turn away from negative news in the environment and avoid monopolizing the conversation with long litanies concerning your life’s dark pitfalls? If you can imagine such an existence, you may be on the cusp of moving away from negativity. The decision is yours and…
Goals and Outcomes of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
In order for you to get the most out of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, you will need specific goals instead of vague hopes. For example, if you’re unhappy and want to be happy, it will be difficult to know what you need to work on specifically. If you have spent considerable time with…
Mistaken Thoughts about Mental Health
One of the seductive mistaken thoughts is that a situation is a catastrophe. In psychology this is called catastrophizing, a habit of thought and belief that causes chaos and drains your available energy. One misinterprets a set of circumstances, making it a large emergency, when maybe it’s just a happening or occurrence….
Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT can help you control the dificult emotion of anger, if you are willing to try some of these tactics: When you see someone lose control, mentally trace the occurrence to the originating thought, belief, or emotion. Then see the parallel within yourself. You can soften a heated argument by…
Phobias
Phobias are a perception of danger associated with specific situations that can be avoided, such as heights, elevators, certain animals, social situations, or too much confinement in a space. The phobic person can live quite a normal life, as long as the phobic situations are avoided. When it becomes necuse one wais…
Eating Disorders
Although the manifestation of eating disorders shows up as being overweight or drastically underweight in a physical sense, it is important to recognize the thoughts, emotions, and beliefs that underlie the distorted behavior. Mistaken Beliefs Persons with eating disorders may find some of the following as a part of their core belief…