Cognitive Behavioral Interventions
Prior to beginning work on this discussion please read pages 8 – 14 of the Bennett-Levy, Westbrook, Fennell, Cooper, Rouf, and Hackmann chapter of the google book Oxford Guide to Behavioural Experiments in Cognitive Therapy (2004), the Weck article (2013), and theCombs, Tiegreen, and Nelson article (2007).
Choose a specific disorder from the following list.
- Agoraphobia
- Anorexia or Bulimia
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Depression
- Panic Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Specific Phobias (public speaking, heights, animals, etc.)
- Substance Abuse
For your initial post you will take on the role of a cognitive behavioral therapist. Create a fictional client experiencing your chosen disorder. Apply cognitive and behavioral theories to the client’s issue to develop a cognitive behavioral experiment you might use with this client. Describe in detail the specific experiment you would create with your client to address the chosen disorder. Your experiment should include both cognitive and behavioral aspects. Use the first six of the seven steps for designing coginitive behavioral experiments outlined on page 33 of the Combs, Tiegreen, and Nelson article to organize your hypothetical experiment. Your initial post should be a minimum of 350 words.
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Cognitive behavioral experiments are behavioral experiments carried out on patient by way of observation during therapy sessions. They are aimed at identifying any signs that validate any disorder in a patient with the aim of helping the patients recover by taking them through therapy sessions (Cormier, andCormier, 1991). As a cognitive behavioral therapist, I encounter patients with different disorders and……
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