Perception is Reality – Or Is It?
While our perceptions might define our reality at any given moment, we always have the power to change perspectives — even dramatically.
‘CBT’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 2
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Breaking Bad Habits With the Behavioral Approach
When working to change habitual and problematic attitudes, thinking patterns, or behaviors, remember how important it is to recognise your own efforts and to give yourself a pat on the back.
The Power of Perspective: Five Flawed World Views
Each of us filters and frames reality through our own perspective, our own “world view”; here are five of the world views that can set us up for problems when it comes to personality development and interpersonal functioning.
Putting the “B” Back into Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
While many clinicians claim to employ cognitive-behavioral principles in their strategies, often their interventions go light on the behavioral aspects of CBT and wind up looking far more like Cognitive Therapy (CT) than CBT.
Should-ing on Our Kids
It’s one thing to have high expectations of our children, but quite another to apply standards at odds with their development, temperament, and cognitive capacity.
Radical Ideologies, Deadly Ways of Thinking
The cognitive-behavioral revolution taught us that meaningful behavioral change generally can’t occur in the absence of a change of heart and attitude, and the only way to stem the rising tide of violence among various militant political groups is to confront their driving ideology directly.
Cost-Benefit Analysis in CBT: An Exercise in Behavioral Economics
It is seldom easy to change entrenched behavior patterns, especially when fears are involved. It helps to be able to think and act ‘outside the box’.