This document provides an overview of cognitive counselling and therapy. It discusses key assumptions like how cognitive therapy teaches individuals to identify thoughts underlying feelings and replace unrealistic thoughts with realistic ones. It describes Aaron Beck's cognitive theory which categorizes cognitions and lists cognitive distortions. The document also outlines the process and techniques of cognitive therapy, including uncovering self-defeating beliefs and changing dysfunctional beliefs through reading assignments and diaries. It further explains rational emotive behaviour therapy and its goals of reducing emotional distress and self-defeating behaviors by focusing on irrational beliefs.

1. Cognitive counselling
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2. Cognitive therapy
Holden describe that “cognition are
thought, beliefs and internal images that
individual have about event in there life”
Burns points out every bad feelings in
terms of of there distorted negative
thinking.

4. Assumptions of cognitive therapy
● Cognitive therapy teaches you how to identify
thoughts underlying your feeling
● Cognitive therapy providea simple way to
determine if these thoughts are realistic
● Though is not realistic than replace it with realistic
one
● Cognitive model stipulates that Psychological is
characterized by disfunction beliefs derived from
dysfunctional thinking

5. ● Changing your cognition the way one look at
something changes how you feel.
● In this cognition therapy the counselor is
interactive serve as a coach to teach the skill
set of identifying thought that underlying
feeling

6. Aron Beck’s cognitive theory
In this theory Beck tell about three categories.

7. Beck tell about some cognitive distortion
● Arbitrary inferences
● Selective abstraction
● Catastrophizing
● Dichotomous thinking or all or nothing
● Emotional reasoning
● Overgeneralization
● Magnification & minimisation
● Personalization

8. Process and techniques of cognitive
therapy
● To uncover or challenge self difeating beliefs
● Change in dysfunctional beliefs
● Reading assignment and diary

9. Rational Emotive behaviour therapy (REBT)
Albert Ellis develop a form of cognitive therapy known as REBT an
action oriented approach to managing irrational beliefs & behaviours
REBT employs a simple A, B,C,frame work between activating
events,beliefs & consequences

11. Goals and purpose of REBT
● To reduce emotional distresse & self difeating
behaviour
● Therapist help client how they present
themselves from being happy by focusing on
there irrational beliefs
● It helps to encourage client to think more
rationally feel healthier act more efficiently
● Therapist educates client about how they disturb
themselves and actively teach them A,B,C model

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