Internalizing Disorders: A Case Study

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Internalizing disorders such as anxiety and depression as well as personality disorders can occur when change does not accurately follow the developmental timeline (Beck, 1976). Over-distortion and one-sided patterns of speculation cause maladaptive development. These negative patterns of the cognitive system are; arbitrary inference, selective abstraction, overgeneralization, magnification and minification, personalization, and dichotomous thinking (Wenzel, et al., 2006). Arbitrary inference is drawing conclusions without supporting evidence or proof. Selective abstraction is conceptualizing a circumstance based on a single detail of an event while disregarding other information. Overgeneralization is applying extreme beliefs, which are …show more content…

This concept is typically viewed as one of the positive aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy because this approach to therapy focuses on the client’s immediate problems and by staying in the present moment rather than having the client recollect past experiences. However, to some cultures, it can feel that by staying in the present there is an abandonment of cultural influences significant to the client if the therapist does not take the time to explore and reflect the client’s past (Nelson, et al., 2014). By spending large amounts of time in the present the therapist can neglect to learn about the history of their clients by not examining where the client came from and other important cultural factors that would be found by looking at the clients past and obtaining a full history of the …show more content…

2013). In order to correct or repair the problems, three things must happen. The first is to promote context engagement by utilizing new experiences to counteract old habits of maladaptive connections that have been reinforced. The second is changing attention by encouraging the client to refocus attention in various settings. Lastly, there must be a cognitive change in so that the client can adapt perception of various events in order to change the assigned meanings. (Mennin, et al.

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