Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
What Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a variety of problems including depression, anxiety disorders, marital problems, and severe mental illness.
Celadon Recovery spends significant time in encouraging individuals receiving services to make an connection between thoughts and behaviors. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy examines the relationship between our thoughts and behaviors, recognizing negative thoughts often lead to negative outcomes. When working with the Celadon team, individuals begin to understand our behaviors are driven by our thoughts and feelings and our emotions are a byproduct. Celadon Recovery’s clinical staff offers help to individuals to identify the emotions we feel, and the thoughts and behaviors associated with it while separating FACTS from FEELINGS. This approach helps our clients learn how to validate their emotions while regulating their behavior and removing their self-destructive tendencies.
How Does CBT Work?
CBT’s core is thoughts lead to behaviors. According to CBT, individuals have certain beliefs about themselves, others, and the future. This leads them to think in distressing situations. Many of these automatic thoughts are negative, maladaptive, or generally unhelpful.
For example, CBT states that many unhealthy behaviors are rooted in cognitive distortions.
Cognitive distortions may include the following:
- Catastrophizing (making problems bigger than they are)
- Overgeneralizing (saying/thinking things like “this always happens to me” when that’s not true)
- Magnification (exaggerating the negative)
- Minimalization (minimizing the positive)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Types
CBT works to address thoughts, feelings, and actions. This can be done by employing specific types of helpful approaches that embrace cognitive behavioral therapy. It is the basis for most mental health disorder treatment.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
MBCT combines cognitive therapy, meditation, and mindfulness to support patients in learning to pay attention (more consciously) to their thoughts and feelings without judgment. This is performed by applying techniques such as meditation, yoga, and mindfulness.
Exposure Therapy
Exposure therapy is designed to assist patients to confront their fears and anxieties head-on. Exposure therapy is done exposing the individual to their fear in a safe, clinical, and supportive environment.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT is a type of cognitive treatment that directs individuals with acute emotional dysregulation. In DBT, patients learn awareness, acceptance, emotion regulation, and how to control their daily stress levels.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
REBT is another type of CBT that underlines the PRESENT and believes that concentrating on particular events is what leads to emotional distress. REBT believes that destructive thoughts create damaging emotions and self-defeating behaviors.
What Conditions Does CBT Treat?
CBT can be used to treat an array of mental health concerns. The cognitive-behavioral model was first established to treat depression. However, CBT has been utilized to help treat many other conditions.
- Substance Use Disorder
- Eating Disorders
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Anxiety Disorders, Panic Disorder and Phobia
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Schizophrenia
- Bipolar Depression
How Does CBT Help with Substance Use Disorder?
CBT works by helping patients struggling with addiction understand the connection between their thinking, emotions, and behaviors. Once they recognize this relationship, they can start detecting the negative patterns and behaviors that keep them stuck in active addiction. Once patients identify these events, they can begin to change them with optimistic ones in order to recover.
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