Psychosocial approaches -1 The acute episode and its aftermath
Kathy J Aitchison, Karena Meehan, Robin M Murray in First Episode Psychosis, 2021
Beck's cognitive therapy for depression has been adapted for use in bipolar affective disorder. The cognitive model of hypomania regards it as a mirror image of depression which is characterized by a positive cognitive triad of self, world and future, and positive cognitive distortions.264 Positive cognitive distortions include: jumping to positive conclusions (‘I'm a winner; I can do anything’)underestimation of risk (‘there's no danger here; I can surmount anything’)minimization of problems (‘nothing can go wrong’)overvaluation of immediate gratification (‘they should do what I want now’)
Thinking about Medical Error and Harm: Flaws in an Operator’s Reasoning and Decision-Making among Others 1
Milos Jenicek in How to Think in Medicine, 2018
Cognitive distortion(s) in psychiatry and cognitive therapy has a slightly different meaning with overlapping characteristic with fallacies and cognitive errors as listed in Appendices of this book. For mental health professionals they are exaggerated or traditional thought patterns that are believed to perpetuate the effects of psychopathological states such as depression or anxiety.18 They are thoughts which cause individuals to perceive reality inaccurately. They often reinforce negative thoughts or emotions related to subjects of interest.8–20 Examples: Always being right, blaming, disqualifying the positive, fallacy of change, fallacy of fairness, jumping to conclusions, magnification or minimization, all-or-nothing splitted thinking or dichotomous reasoning among others.18
Recovery Programming
Tricia L. Chandler, Fredrick Dombrowski, Tara G. Matthews in Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders, 2022
While the vast majority of people may not be paying attention to their core beliefs, counselors use the session to break down instances in which the individual experienced an automatic thought as a response to a trigger. Triggers can occur multiple times per day and may have a lasting impact on the mood and behavior of the client throughout the following days (Linehan, 1993). As the client has worked to complete the trigger diary, the counselor works with the client to explore and identify the automatic thoughts of the client when compared to a list of cognitive distortions. The counselor can introduce to the client a worksheet to provide psychoeducation regarding cognitive distortions. (Multiple free sources of information about cognitive distortions exist on the internet.) When reviewing the list of cognitive distortions, it is recommended that the counselor reconnect to an instance that the patient has provided and directly work with the patient on identifying which distortions they have experienced (Beck, 2011).
Cognitive-behavioral counseling and self-perception of male clients receiving methadone maintenance treatment
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2018
Naseibeh Elahei Roudposhti, Amir Jalali, Behnam Khaledi Paveh, Nader Salari
Among different techniques used to promote self-perception is cognitive counseling (Botvin & Griffin, 2007). According to the cognitive-behavioral therapists, if people receive proper training and their cognitive faults are detected and modified, they will have an appropriate behavior as well as a fruitful life (Dousteian et al., 2013). The main theme of the Cognitive-Behavior Therapy and behavior change theory is how individuals’ thoughts determine their behaviors and feelings. Cognitive therapists recognize cognitive distortions and help their patients understand their mistakes and change their thoughts (Botvin & Griffin, 2007). In this regard some studies have shown that group cognitive interventions on social phobia was caused a significant decrease in self-reported negative thoughts (Hofmann, Moscovitch, Kim, & Taylo, 2004) and among visually impaired male could significantly increase the self-concept (Yaghotian, Soleimanian, & Darrodi, 2016). Hence, the present study aimed to determine the impact of cognitive-behavioral counseling on self-perception of clients receiving methadone maintenance treatment.
Unmoving and unmoved: experiences and consequences of impaired non-verbal expressivity in Parkinson’s patients and their spouses
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2019
Adrienne Wootton, Nicola J. Starkey, Carol C. Barber
Impaired facial expressivity appears to interfere with two processes crucial to human social cognition and interaction – the ability of partners to decode the emotions of people who have PD, and people with PD’s ability to mirror or share in emotion with others. A key finding was that partners confused facial masking with negative affect. Partners also made attributions about the cause of perceived affect, the nature of which could be distressing and dysfunctional. This may be because expressions are usually processed automatically and can be used to form judgments without intention or conscious awareness of having done so [28]. This suggests that partners and family members may benefit from assistance in identifying and challenging negative or distressing cognitions that arise when interacting with an individual who has reduced expressivity. Cognitive restructuring techniques may be particularly useful, as the thought processes partners described appear similar to common cognitive distortions such as mind reading and personalization [29]. For example, one participant described challenging automatic thoughts about her husband’s unhappiness, by using a technique somewhat similar to Examining the Evidence [30], “what I think he’s feeling is probably not what he’s feeling… he’s not unhappy because of me and kids…remind myself of all the good things that we are doing…There’s no reason for him to be unhappy sort of thing” (P12 – Partner).
Mental health trends among medical students
Published in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2023
Muktha Nair, Nathaniel Moss, Amna Bashir, David Garate, Devon Thomas, Shangyi Fu, Daniel Phu, Christine Pham
Additional tools that can be added to medical curriculum are resilience, metacognition, and mindfulness training.11,19 The ultimate aim of resilience, metacognition, and mindfulness training is to learn how to mentally and emotionally cope with a crisis.11 It should be highlighted that the purpose is not to decrease the number of maladaptive cognitive distortions or thoughts a student experiences but to learn how to manage them.19 Currently, mental health among medical students is addressed in a curative fashion, where only students who have symptoms of depression or diagnoses of depression or anxiety are treated.19 If this model were to be optimized into one that was primarily preventative (i.e., equipping all medical students with these trainings regardless of whether or not they experience cognitive distortions), medical institutions would not only be preparing their students for the vigorous medical training ahead of them but also be giving them the capacity to successfully transition from being a medical student into a physician.19
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