Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dummies
Chapter One
You Feel the Way You Think
In This Chapter
* Defining CBT
* Exploring the power of meanings
* Understanding how your thoughts lead to emotions and behaviours
* Getting acquainted with the ABC formula
Cognitive behavioural therapy - more commonly referred to as CBT - focuses
on the way people think and act in order to help them overcome
their emotional and behavioural problems.
Many of the effective CBT practices we discuss in this book should seem like
everyday good sense. In our opinion, CBT does have some very straightforward
and clear principles and is a largely sensible and practical approach to
helping people overcome problems. However, human beings don't always act
according to sensible principles, and most people find that simple solutions
can be very difficult to put into practice sometimes. CBT can maximise on
your common sense and help you to do the healthy things that you may
sometimes do naturally and unthinkingly in a deliberate and self-enhancing
way on a regular basis. ... read full excerpt from: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Dummies  ebook
