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Amira Amjad
Event
Appraisal
Maladaptive
Behavior
Negative
Stressful Automatic Thoughts
copyright: Dr. Shona N. Vas, Dept of
Situation Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience Emotions
Cognitive Behavior Therapy Program MS-3
Cognitive Distortions
• Patients tend to make consistent errors in
their thinking
• Often, there is a systematic negative bias in
the cognitive processing of patients suffering
from psychiatric disorders
• Help patient identify the cognitive errors s/he
is most likely to make
• Cognitive Distortions
– Emotional Reasoning: “I feel incompetent, so I know
I’ll fail”
– Catastrophizing: “It is going to be terrible”
– Personalization: “It’s always my fault”
– Black or white thinking: “If it isn’t perfect, it’s
no good at all.”
Childhood Compensatory
Underlying Assumptions
And Early Strategies
and Core Beliefs
Life Events
• Evaluate interpretation
– Evidence: For and against this belief?
– Alternatives: Any other explanation(s)?
– Implications: So what….?
Cognitive
Distortions:
All/nothing
Mindreading
Fortune-
Telling
Over-
generalization
• Anxiety Disorders
– GAD (1985)
– Social Phobia (1985)
– Panic Disorder (1986)
– OCD (1988)
– PTSD (1991)
• Emotional Disorders (2006)
copyright: Dr. Shona N. Vas, Dept of
Psychiatry & Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Behavior Therapy Program MS-3
Applications of CBT (Continued…)
• Eating Disorders (1981)
• Marital Problems
• Behavioral Medicine
– Headaches (1985)
– Insomnia (1987)
– Chronic Pain (1988)
– Smoking Cessation
– Hypochondriasis
– Body Dysmorphic Disorder
• System of psychotherapies
• Unified theory of psychopathology
• Short-term treatment
• Objective assessment and monitoring
• Strong empirical support
• As effective as pharmacotherapy