My presentation to 'Mental Health First Aiders' (lay people who have completed a short course to help them support someone in crisis), about CBT approaches to mental health.
5. Example Thoughts I’m useless I’ll never achieve anything I’ll never get better It’s all my fault It’s going to go wrong They hate me Why does this always happen to me? Thoughts about you Thoughts about others Questions
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Editor's Notes
Experience – delivering CB approach sessions to people experiencing longterm unemployment. Focus on depression
Thought is usually a sentence, rather than a single word (which is a feeling)
Behaviours – might be avoidance, addictive, self harming, inactivity etc
Discuss an example of one of the ‘positive actions’ from the week – how did this make us think and feel?
Brainstorm – acting upon thoughts.
Being in touch with feelings, in touch with thoughts. How difficult was it to remember one thought they had today.
looking at other aspects of a situation – rational / more helpful thoughts
NOT counselling, although some counsellors are trained in it. NOT ‘Tell me about your dreams, childhood, relationship with mother etc’ More practical
(available online – also shows guidance for all other interventions and treatments – including exercise
Find out the waiting list for IAPT referrals
Brainstorm first
Counselling - particularly if depression cause by trauma or childhood events) Anxiety (particularly phobia, or avoidance behaviours) – Graded exposure form of behavioural therapy – ‘tolerating’ the anxiety associates with certain things, until it reduced
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