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CBT is a psychological approach that treats negative patterns of thought and behavior that brings misery to our lives in a method that is much focused and goal oriented. The therapist in CBT treatment will most likely guide us and will give us different tasks that the patient has to follow. The therapist is very active and involved. This approach is based on behavioral-cognitive research.
The CBT approach unlike the psychoanalytical approach doesn't focus on inner conflicts and our initial connections with our family members but rather focuses on present patterns of thoughts and behavior and addresses them in a very goal oriented approach in order to change them and to create new patterns and more positive patterns of though and behavior.
As young kids different experiences impact us strongly. We reacted in a certain way in order o survive in given circumstances. We developed defenses that were crucial and mandatory for our survival at that time; however, those defenses no longer serve us but harm us. The problem is changing them is not so easy as they are engraved in our brains and our body. For example if a child is growing up in an uncaring and unloving atmosphere, he will grow up and may interpret his relationships and interactions in a way that is based on his childhood experience. Those interpretations are colored by our previous experiences but do not represent the sole truth.
CBT is as mentioned focusing on the "here and now" and nor in the past. Its goal will be to help the patient change as fast as possible the way he behaves and then his emotions and thoughts. Changing maladaptive or negative thinking will lead to a different and more constructive behavior, this is CBT premise.
If you seek to change your reality and the way you react to different life events, you should consider CBT treatment as it is considered very effective and life changing approach. If you choose this specific approach of treatment make sure you choose a psychologist who studied CBT and has enough experience using cognitive-behavioral methods.
The CBT approach unlike the psychoanalytical approach doesn't focus on inner conflicts and our initial connections with our family members but rather focuses on present patterns of thoughts and behavior and addresses them in a very goal oriented approach in order to change them and to create new patterns and more positive patterns of though and behavior.
As young kids different experiences impact us strongly. We reacted in a certain way in order o survive in given circumstances. We developed defenses that were crucial and mandatory for our survival at that time; however, those defenses no longer serve us but harm us. The problem is changing them is not so easy as they are engraved in our brains and our body. For example if a child is growing up in an uncaring and unloving atmosphere, he will grow up and may interpret his relationships and interactions in a way that is based on his childhood experience. Those interpretations are colored by our previous experiences but do not represent the sole truth.
CBT is as mentioned focusing on the "here and now" and nor in the past. Its goal will be to help the patient change as fast as possible the way he behaves and then his emotions and thoughts. Changing maladaptive or negative thinking will lead to a different and more constructive behavior, this is CBT premise.
If you seek to change your reality and the way you react to different life events, you should consider CBT treatment as it is considered very effective and life changing approach. If you choose this specific approach of treatment make sure you choose a psychologist who studied CBT and has enough experience using cognitive-behavioral methods.
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