Decentralization of cognitive therapy technology
1. The changes of behavior technology on the cognitive structure of the help seeker are as follows: firstly, the counselor can help the help seeker to proce some emotional experience which is usually ignored by him by designing special behavior patterns or situations, which plays an important role (strengthening) in the change of the cognitive concept of help seeker; Secondly, in the specific situation of behavior correction, the help seeker not only experiences what is positive emotion and what is successful behavior, but also learns how to obtain these experiences
2. Cognitive behavior correction technology is a process of coping skills learning, and its basic principle is to learn how to correct cognitive "stereotype" to obtain more effective coping strategies. 1) 2) skill acquisition and retelling (part of the stress management process, including relaxation training, social skills training, time management guidance and self guidance training) 3) application and completion (transfer to real life, Stress vaccination training (SIT) is a specific application of coping skills learning process. Stress management is a combination of a series of techniques and processes, including information giving, Socratic discussion, cognitive reorganization, problem solving, relaxation training, behavior retelling, self-monitoring, self guidance, self strengthening and changing environmental situations. Application fields include: anger control, anxiety management, self training, improvement of creative thinking, depression treatment and treatment of health problems; It can also be used to treat obesity, hyperactive children, social isolation, victims of post-traumatic stress and schizophrenia< 4. Beck's systematic reasoning errors of false assumptions and misunderstandings caused by cognitive distortions are: subjective inference, selective generalization, overgeneralization, exaggeration and narrowing, personalization, labeling and mislabeling, and extreme thinking
5. Beck's five specific cognitive therapy techniques: recognition of automatic thinking; Recognition of cognitive errors; Authenticity verification; Decentralization; Monitoring the level of depression or anxiety
6. Cognitive therapy focuses on the current situation and is generally short. Treatment goals include: relieving symptoms, helping clients to solve the most urgent problems, and teaching clients how to prevent recurrence

cognitive therapy is a psychotherapy technique developed in the 1970s. It is based on the theoretical hypothesis that cognitive process affects emotion and behavior, and it is a kind of general psychotherapy method to change patients' bad cognition through cognitive and behavioral technology. Cognitive therapy attaches great importance to the study of patients' bad cognition and thinking mode, and regards self frustration behavior as the result of patients' bad cognition. The so-called bad cognition refers to distorted irrational and negative beliefs or thoughts, which often lead to emotional disorders and non adaptive behaviors. The purpose of treatment is to correct these irrational cognition, so as to make the patient's emotion and behavior change accordingly
cognitive therapy is different from behavioral therapy because it not only pays attention to the correction of maladjustment, but also pays more attention to the change of patients' cognitive style and the harmony of cognition emotion behavior. Similarly, cognitive therapy is different from the traditional introspective therapy or psychoanalysis, because it attaches importance to the influence of patients' cognition on their mind and body, that is, it attaches importance to the conscious and subconscious, and ignores the events in the consciousness< The theoretical basis of cognitive therapy is the cognitive theory of emotional disorders proposed by Beck. He thinks: psychological problems "are not necessarily caused by mysterious and irresistible forces, on the contrary, they can be caused by ordinary events, such as wrong learning, making wrong inferences based on one-sided or incorrect information, and failing to properly distinguish the difference between reality and ideal, etc." He pointed out that everyone's emotion and behavior are largely determined by his own way of understanding the external world and dealing with the world, that is to say, a person's thought determines his inner experience and reaction
Beck sums up five common forms of cognitive distortions in the process of cognition: (1) arbitrary inference: making hasty conclusions when there is no evidence or time sharing is not allowed 2) Selective generalization draws conclusions on the whole event only according to indivial details without considering other circumstances: (3) over extension refers to making general conclusions on capability, operation or value on the basis of a single event, that is, drawing general conclusions from a specific event 4) Exaggeration or narrowing: to make a distorted evaluation of the significance of objective events 5) "All or nothing" thinking: either all right or all wrong. Life is often seen as a monochromatic world with no middle color
the starting point of cognitive theory is to confirm that thought and belief are the causes of emotional state and behavior. Bock argues that patients with depression often turn into depression e to making mistakes in logical judgment, distorting the meaning of things and condemning themselves; Usually, a small thing (such as spilling a drink) will be regarded as a logical inference of life, and all events will be explained with the idea of self depreciation and self blame< Second, the basic technology and process of cognitive therapy; Patients are encouraged to monitor internal factors, i.e. thought, behavior, and emotional factors that cause the disorder. Beck summed up five cognitive therapy techniques in 1985:
1. Identify automatic thoughts: the thoughts of automatic thoughts between external events and indivial adverse emotional reactions to events. Most patients can not realize that these thoughts exist before unpleasant emotions, because these thoughts have formed a part of their way of thinking. In the process of cognitive therapy, patients should first recognize the automatic thoughts, especially those special thoughts that appear before anger, pessimism and anxiety. Therapists can explore and recognize automatic thoughts by asking questions, guiding patients' imagination and role playing
2. Recognition of cognitive errors: Patients with anxiety and depression tend to view and deal with everything in a negative way, and their views are often quite different from reality and pessimistic. Generally speaking, patients are particularly prone to conceptual or abstract errors, among which the typical cognitive errors are as follows: arbitrary inference, selective generalization, over extension, exaggeration or rection, total or no thought. Most patients are easy to recognize automatic thoughts, but it is very difficult for them to recognize cognitive errors, because some cognitive errors are difficult to evaluate. Therefore, in order to identify cognitive errors, therapists should listen to and write down the automatic thoughts of patients and different situations and problems, and then ask patients to summarize the general rules and find out their commonalities
3. Authenticity test: after identifying cognitive errors, we design a strict authenticity test with patients, that is, to test and question false beliefs. This is the core of cognitive therapy, otherwise it is not enough to change the patient's cognition. In the course of treatment, patients are encouraged to take their automatic thinking as a hypothesis. As a result, they may find that these negative cognition and beliefs are unrealistic in more than 95% of the survey time
4. Pay attention: most patients with depression and anxiety feel that they are the center of people's attention, and their words and deeds are "commented" by others. As a result, they have always considered themselves vulnerable and powerless. If a patient thinks that a slight change in his dress style will attract the attention and criticism of everyone around him, the treatment plan requires him not to dress as neatly as before, go for a walk and run along the street, and then ask him to record the number of adverse reactions. As a result, he finds that few people will pay attention to his words and deeds
5. Monitoring the level of depression or anxiety: many patients with chronic or even acute anxiety often think that their anxiety will remain unchanged, but in fact, the occurrence of anxiety is fluctuating. If people realize that anxiety has a process of beginning, peak and fading, then people can control anxiety more easily. Therefore, it is a common method of cognitive therapy to encourage patients to self monitor their anxiety level, promote patients to understand the characteristics of anxiety fluctuation and enhance their confidence in resisting anxiety.
