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Beliefs

27 techniques · 8 approaches
CBT
Behavioral Experiment
Behavioral Experiment
A planned real-world test of a belief. The client states a prediction, designs a safe experiment, performs it, and compares prediction with …
CBT
Case Conceptualization
Case Conceptualization
A working map of how the client's problems are maintained. CBT conceptualization links situations, automatic thoughts, emotions, behaviors, …
CBT
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis
A structured examination of the advantages and disadvantages of a belief, behavior or change. It is useful when ambivalence maintains avoida…
CBT
Evidence For and Against
Evidence For and Against
A systematic two-column collection of facts for and against an automatic thought. The task is not intuition or reassurance, but real evidenc…
CBT
Intermediate Beliefs
Intermediate Beliefs
Work with rules, assumptions and attitudes that sit between automatic thoughts and core beliefs. They often sound like "If I do not perform …
CBT
Socratic Questioning
Socratic Questioning
The skill of asking questions instead of giving advice. The therapist does not say, "your thought is wrong," but helps the client reach a mo…
CPT
Challenging Beliefs Worksheet
Challenging Beliefs Worksheet
Challenging Beliefs Worksheet is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client …
CPT
Challenging Questions Worksheet
Challenging Questions Worksheet
Challenging Questions Worksheet is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the clien…
CPT
Cognitive Restructuring
Cognitive Restructuring
Cognitive Restructuring is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move f…
CPT
Developing Alternative Thoughts
Developing Alternative Thoughts
Developing Alternative Thoughts is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the clien…
CPT
Distinguishing Assimilation from Over-Accommodation
Distinguishing Assimilation from Over-Accommodation
Distinguishing Assimilation from Over-Accommodation is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points…
CPT
Identifying Stuck Points
Identifying Stuck Points
Identifying Stuck Points is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move …
CPT
Socratic Questioning (Guided Discovery) in CPT
Socratic Questioning (Guided Discovery) in CPT
Socratic Questioning (Guided Discovery) in CPT is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It …
CPT
Star Worksheet
Star Worksheet
Star Worksheet is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move from globa…
CPT
Stuck Point Log
Stuck Point Log
Stuck Point Log is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client move from glob…
CPT
Writing the Impact Statement
Writing the Impact Statement
Writing the Impact Statement is a CPT intervention for identifying, testing, and revising trauma-related stuck points. It helps the client m…
Coherence
Experiential Disconfirmation
Experiential Disconfirmation
Finding and creating real life experience that fundamentally diverges from the activated emotional knowledge — in order to launch reconsolid…
Coherence
Pro-Symptom Position Statement
Pro-Symptom Position Statement
A joint formulation with the client of a precise statement expressing the emotional knowledge behind the symptom, in the first person.
Coherence
Working with Multiple Emotional Learnings
Working with Multiple Emotional Learnings
Exploring the situation in which several emotional learnings stand behind one symptom — each requiring its own cycle of discovery and recons…
Deurzen
Socratic Dialogue / Philosophical Inquiry
Socratic Dialogue / Philosophical Inquiry
Van Deurzen was deeply influenced by Plato and Socrates. Therapy in her understanding is a joint philosophical inquiry, a dialogue of two pe…
EMDR
Negative Cognition (NC)
Negative Cognition (NC)
A personal belief about the self that the trauma has left in the client: "I am helpless", "I am to blame", "I am not safe", "I am not good e…
EMDR
Positive Cognition (PC)
Positive Cognition (PC)
An adaptive, healing version of the negative cognition — what the client would like to believe about themselves after reprocessing the traum…
Gestalt
Exaggeration Experiment
Exaggeration Experiment
The client takes a negative belief, gesture, or emotion and exaggerates it to absurdity. "I am a failure" becomes "I am absolutely, mathemat…
Hakomi
Accessing Core Material
Accessing Core Material
Gently leading to the deep beliefs through mindfulness, tracking, and probes. Core material is the set of beliefs that organize the whole of…
Hakomi
Nourishment
Nourishment
Providing the "missing experience" — what was absent at the moment the core belief was formed. Through words, gestures, touch, in a state of…
Hakomi
Probes
Probes
Small experiments in mindfulness: the therapist speaks a phrase or makes a gesture, the client observes the inner reaction. Probes surface c…
REBT
ABC Model / ABC Framework
ABC Model / ABC Framework
The basic conceptual map of REBT: A (activating event), B (beliefs), C (emotional and behavioral consequences). The key idea: it is not even…
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