COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety



Table of Contents

Introduction3

Discussion3

Physical and Emotional Components of Anxiety Disorders4

The Cognitive Component4

The Behavioural Component4

Description of Treatment6

Example9

"Five areas" assessment11

A Five Areas Assessment Diagram12

What does CBT involve?12

The sessions12

The work13

Summary of Studies Supporting the Treatment's Efficacy15

References17

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Anxiety

Introduction

Anxiety is a usual answer to positions where we seem endangered or concerned. Anxiety can hold us protected or it can inspire us to work harder. However, study proposes that one in 10 Americans has an important difficulty with anxiety, with grades of anxiety that are sore and disruptive. Panic attacks, farthest concern, obsessive-compulsive demeanour, (Thayer, Friedman, & Borkovec, 2005) post-traumatic tension, and phobias are all widespread symptoms of anxiety disorders.

Discussion

One of the most productive and lasting treatments for anxiety is cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). CBT is a pattern of psychotherapy administered by a mental wellbeing expert that has been effectively utilised to heal a broad kind of difficulties, encompassing depression, impulse control disorders, eating disorders, (Öst, 2003) and anxiety disorders. CBT assists persons overwhelm their doubts by altering their unhelpful considered patterns and educating sufferers to organise their personal reactions to distress. In this way, CBT is adept to ease both the personal and emotional constituents of anxiety disorders.

Physical and Emotional Components of Anxiety Disorders

The Cognitive Component

In cognitively-focused treatment, the therapist assists the patient to recognise and analyze the exact thoughts that are assisting to their sentiments of anxiety. Once these thoughts are recognised, the patient and the therapist work simultaneously to analyze data that may disconfirm the convictions the patient retains, and in doing so evolve alternate thoughts that are more very shrewd and less anxiety-provoking. For demonstration, for patients who concern about improbable catastrophes, (Beck & Emery, 2004)the patient and therapist might analyze what the genuine likelihood is of certain thing disastrous occurrence to either the patient or a family member. If a patient relentlessly is concerned about the wellbeing of family and associates, the therapist might inquire the patient to register what, if any, clues lives that would lead to the dreaded outcome of those persons evolving gravely ill. The aim of these workouts is to permit the patient to mindfully analyze their anxious thoughts and arrive to the realization that the doubts are overstated and unhelpful. (Borkovec & Whisman, 2004)

The Behavioural Component

One behavioural constituent of CBT focuses on exposure therapy. Exposure therapy frequently inserts the patient to dreaded situations. This is carried out both by envisaging these events as well as by bodily going into painful situations. For example, an one-by-one with communal anxiety disorder may give a presentation in front of a little assembly or they may have a dialogue with somebody they had not before met. To farther address the anxiety, the communally phobic one-by-one may be shown assembly evaluations of the dialogue or presentation and granted video recordings of the know-how to watch and discuss. After observing the recordings and reading the evaluations, patients recognize that their doubts of seeming inapt or talking improperly are ...