Cognitive Behavior Therapy Essay

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I’m going to be writing about the cognitive behavior therapy for my article review. Cognitive behaviors are based on beliefs, behaviors, emotions, and physical reactions. All these things will lead someone to change. Cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) are conducted to clients by a therapist who many use one of these three techniques to start the critical thinking process and create grounding for the client therapist relationship. The three techniques are operant conditioning, modeling, and behavioral rehearsals. These will help to put the client’s beliefs, behavior, emotions and reactions to the test. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one of the most common therapies used throughout agency settings. A big aspect used in cognitive behavioral …show more content…

Young adolescences are normally around the ages of nine to fourteen, these are the years that puberty starts and they are on the road to adulthood. These years are crucial to everyone as they can be a very hard time. Cognitive behavior therapy has you reflect on your beliefs and emotions and I feel that goes along hand in hand with the transitional life stage they are experiencing, it will make the client look more closely at life as it is and make them think about what they want out of life. This is also the age when adolescence look for guide in life. As a client they have made a decision to come see you, as a social worker our job is to carry out techniques to help the client change their thinking and minimize their irrational thoughts. Cognitive behavior therapy can be done in groups or individual, Ellis sometimes would recommend both for from clients for them to have a deeper understanding of their beliefs that are influencing what they do corresponding with the emotions they are feeling. This will allow clients to explore self-change and learn ways they can minimize certain emotions and …show more content…

This article supports my opinion that cognitive behavior therapy would work best with young adolescence. This study looked at three specific categories, the first was standard items, the second was model items and the third was delivery items. Standards items were prescribed, this would include homework such as a general activity assigned to the client that when completed would help build client therapist relationship. This would provide some basic information about the client and would be a resource to guide conversation in sessions. Model items on the other hand are things that will help develop the client’s skill, such as identification for what is trigger their anxiety. Category three, delivery items are how the model items were presented. Were these model items taught, instructed, or explained to the client. While reading this article I learned more about the different components to cognitive behavior therapy. There is a basic descriptive outline of all the therapies available to use with your clients however you never can rely on the same techniques every time. Not only will each and every client you in counter be different but there are also multiple approaches to go with, it all depends on the clients beliefs, behaviors, emotions, and physical reaction, along with their goal to accomplish

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