Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Understanding Cognitive Distortions: Dr. Dawn Elise Snipes

Explore strategies for addressing cognitive distortions.
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~ Define Thinking Errors
~ Explore the different types of thinking errors
~ Cognitive distortions
~ Irrational Thoughts
~ Evaluate how thinking errors can play into our basic fears: Rejection, isolation, the unknown, loss of control, failure
~ Identify ways to
~ Increase awareness of thinking errors
~ Address thinking errors
~ Address basic fears

Why I Care/How It Impacts Recovery
~ Thinking errors, or stinkin’ thinkin’ plays a large part in keeping people miserable
~ Addiction, depression, anxiety, anger and guilt often stem or are made worse by faulty thinking
~ Addressing these thought patterns will help clients:
~ Not make a mountain out of a molehill
~ Focus on the things they can change
~ Identify and eliminate thought patterns that are keeping them stuck
What are Thinking Errors
~ Cognitive Distortions take a thought and manipulate it to
~ Fulfil people’s expectations of a situation
~ Conform to their current head space (negative sees negative)
~ Irrational Thoughts are beliefs/thoughts that you may hold that
~ Are usually extreme (I must have love and approval from everyone all the time)
~ Are unrealistic
~ Create feelings of failure, inadequacy, disempowerment

Causes of Thinking Errors
~ Information-processing shortcuts
~ Using outdated, dichotomous schemas
~ Mental noise
~ The brain's limited information processing capacity
~ Age
~ Crisis
Causes of Thinking Errors
~ Emotional causes
~ I feel bad, therefore it must be bad
~ Moral causes
~ It was the right thing to do
~ Social causes
~ Everyone is doing it
Impact of Thinking Errors (Fight or Flee)
~ Emotional upset
~ Depression
~ Anxiety
~ Behavioral
~ Withdrawal
~ Addictions
~ Sleep problems/changes
~ Eating changes

~ Physical
~ Stress-related illnesses
~ Headaches
~ GI Distress
~ Social
~ Irritability/impatience
~ Withdrawal

Summary
~ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a technique that helps people:
~ Understand how thoughts create feelings and vice versa
~ Identify and address negative self talk
~ Issues and events from the past do not need to continue to negatively impact a person
~ Thinking errors are learned and can be unlearned
~ These thought patterns help to form and maintain a negative or vulnerable self image.
~ Healthy thought patterns can help people feel more empowered and worthy of love.

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