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David Burns has updated his book "Feeling Good" to "Feeling Great – The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety". He's done a lot of research and come up with 50 different methods to untwist your thinking. It's well worth the read and doing the written exercises. He doesn't talk of CBT now but TEAM-CBT.
TEAM-CBT stands for:
Testing - at the beginning and end of every session you fill out a form so he can get direct feedback on how you were before and at the end of the session.
Empathy - not rescuing or fixing
Agenda Setting (sometimes paradoxical) - deals with treatment resistance & values that resistance as showing the good thing about you.
Methods - he's got so many, so he wants you to fail joyfully and then move on to the next one that might work for you.
I am learning so much. His updates actually address some issues that I have - seeing what is your challenge as expressing as what is best about your core values and aspirations and commitments to family, community & culture. It's a big mindset shift for me. I am getting so much out of it that I wanted to share it with the rest of the forum. It might be useful to someone.
@anthony put me on to "Feeling Good". It's been useful. Ty for that.
List of Feeling Good Podcasts | Feeling Good (They are also on YouTube).
The Top 10 primary cognitive distortions:
This poll continues onwards from a previous thread: Poll - Are You Familiar With The Top Ten Distorted Cognitions?
One of the things that really interested me is the Relapse Prevention Training. That would have been very useful for me.
TEAM-CBT stands for:
Testing - at the beginning and end of every session you fill out a form so he can get direct feedback on how you were before and at the end of the session.
Empathy - not rescuing or fixing
Agenda Setting (sometimes paradoxical) - deals with treatment resistance & values that resistance as showing the good thing about you.
Methods - he's got so many, so he wants you to fail joyfully and then move on to the next one that might work for you.
I am learning so much. His updates actually address some issues that I have - seeing what is your challenge as expressing as what is best about your core values and aspirations and commitments to family, community & culture. It's a big mindset shift for me. I am getting so much out of it that I wanted to share it with the rest of the forum. It might be useful to someone.
@anthony put me on to "Feeling Good". It's been useful. Ty for that.
The website of David D. Burns, MD | 001: Introduction to the TEAM Model | Feeling Good
In this podcast, Drs. Fabrice Nye and David Burns discuss an exciting breakthrough in psychotherapy. Leave your questions and comments below. Also, let us know if you’d like to see certain topics addressed in future podcasts. (Repost for submission to iTunes)
feelinggood.com
List of Feeling Good Podcasts | Feeling Good (They are also on YouTube).
The Top 10 primary cognitive distortions:
- All or nothing thinking -- You see things in black and white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.
- Over-generalization -- You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
- Mental filter -- You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it so exclusively that your vision of all reality becomes darkened, like the drop of ink that colors the entire beaker of water.
- Disqualifying the positive -- You reject positive experiences by insisting they "don't count" for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences.
- Jumping to conclusions -- You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. (Involves mind-reading and fortune-telling.)
- Magnification and minimization -- You exaggerate the importance of things, or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny.
- Emotional reasoning -- You assume that your emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are, as in "I feel it, therefore it must be true."
- Should statements -- You try to motivate yourself with "should" and "should not," as if you have to be whipped and punished before you could be expected to do anything.
- Labeling and mislabeling -- This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. Instead of describing your error, you attach a negative label to yourself.
- Personalization -- You see yourself as the cause of some negative external event which, in fact, you were not primarily responsible for.
This poll continues onwards from a previous thread: Poll - Are You Familiar With The Top Ten Distorted Cognitions?
One of the things that really interested me is the Relapse Prevention Training. That would have been very useful for me.
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