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Guidance and Counseling

Notes • One-to-one CBT brings the client into a kind of relationship they may not have had before. The
collaborative’ style means that they are actively involved in changing.
• The methods of CBT may be useful because the client solves problems that may have been
long-standing and stuck. Someone anxious may have been in a repetitive and boring job,
lacking the confidence to change. A depressed person may have felt too inadequate to meet
new people and improve their social life. Someone stuck in an unsatisfactory relationship may
find new ways of resolving disputes.
• The focus and method of cognitive behavioral therapy sets it apart from other, more traditional
therapies:
(i) CBT is based on two specific tasks
(ii) CBT focuses on specific problems
(iii) CBT is goal oriented
(iv) The approach of CBT is educational
(v) CBT employs multiple strategies, including Socratic questioning, role playing, imagery,
guided discovery, and behavioral experiments.

23.10 Keywords
Cognitive : Connected with mental process
Distortions : To twist or change facts, ideas
Dysfunction : working in a satisfactory or successful way

23.11 Review Questions
1. What is meaning of cognitive approach of psychotherapy ?
2. What is the importance of negative thoughts ?
3. Where do these negative thoughts come from ?
4. Give the importance of structure in cognitive approach.

5. Explain the process of cognitive behavioral therapy.
6. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of cognitive therapy.
Answers : Self Assessment
1. (i) Cognitive behavior approach (ii) Aaron T. Beck, automatic thoughts
(iii) depression (iv) Psychological distortions
2. (i) T (ii) F (iii) T (iv) F

23.12 Further Readings

1. Guidance & Counseling: S. Nageshwara Rao, Discovery Publishing House
2. Guidance & Counselince: B.G. Barki, B.Kukh, Opadhyay, Sterling Publishers
Pvt. Ltd.
3. Guidance & Counseling : Suzanne E. Wade. Pam Schuctz, Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.

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