Obsession From Cognitive Therapy Approach To Anxiety

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a well established and lasting treatment that focuses on recognizing, understanding, and changing thinking and behavior patterns. Many treatments are effective for anxiety, but not all of them can benefit everyone and not every part of treatment is successful for all anxiety disorders (Bystritsky, Khalsa, Cameron, & Schiffman, 2013). Good outcomes have been seen in several clinical tests that deal with CBT treatments and anxiety. These anti-drug treatments can construct changes and long-term relief. CBT can give a person a new way of understanding and thinking about their problem. It also provides the skills to deal with the concerns that a person may be struggling with. CBT treatment

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in contrast to many other therapeutic frameworks has both an explicit rationale and an empirically demonstrable success rate. In addition to the wealth of published case histories there are a plethora of controlled studies attesting to the efficacy of CBT interventions with an equally diverse range of psychological and behavioral conditions. (Emmelkamp et al 1992).

From a cognitive approach, obsessive-compulsive disorder is the result of people blaming their obsessions and compulsions on themselves and therefore having non-rational thoughts of bad things occurring if there compulsions are not acted upon. People with this disorder will attempt to neutralize their thoughts by the compulsions which is usually unsuccessful. In turn, the individual will only feel ease from the negative thoughts temporarily. Treatment from a cognitive approach focuses on giving the patient an understanding of the cognitive process involved in their disorder (Comer 167). Cognitive therapists will help the patient understand why they are feeling the way they are, then they begin to direct their thinking patterns in a more

Prolonged exposure requires that the client repeatedly, in a systematic manner, relive the memories of the traumatic event over an extended period of time (Foa, Dancu, Hembree, Jaycox, Meadows, & Street, 1999; Foa & Rauch, 2004; Harvey, Bryant, & Tarrier, 2003). In prolonged exposure, the client is expected to (a) vividly call to mind the traumatic event, with as much detail as possible, (b) recount the memory of the traumatic event to the therapist in the present tense, and (c) have constant exposure to the memory until the distress decreases (McDonagh, McHugo, Sengupta, Demment, Schnurr, Friendman, Ford, Mueser, Fournier, & Descamps, 2005). The therapist’s role, in prolonged exposure, is to help the client identify “hot spots” or the most distressing aspect of the memory. The therapist and the client then develop a hierarchy of memories to address, from least to most distressing. These memories are addressed one at a time until habituation of anxiety to the memory occurs, which is determined by

Like anything else Behavior Therapy does have its strengths and weakness. One of it strength is the ownership the client is given, at the onset of therapy goals are established and clients are encourage to be active in the therapeutic process, by developing a plan of action. This allows the clients to have a vested interest in deciding with the goals of their therapy will be. (Corey, 2013, p. 278). Behavioral therapy is also one of the few therapies that place an emphasis on research, this has made the behavior therapy method one of the most effective in the treatment of a number of behavioral illness. Because research is consider to be a basic aspect of this approach and therapeutic techniques are continually refined (Corey, 2013, p. 277) cognitive behavioral procedures are currently the best treatment strategies available for depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social phobia and eating disorders (Corey, 2013, pp. 278-279).

comparable results for depression as antidepressant medications, making it a successful treatment alternative to medication. (Thoma, Pilecki, et al., 2015, p. 433) Since this is predicted to become such a major issue, the treatment for depression has become extremely important. According to Rachman, Cognitive behavioral therapy is also successful for the uses of treating obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety. For example, Salkovski 's analysis of OCD became an important part of the cognitive behavioral therapy model, which helped therapists focus on the client 's thoughts and feelings regarding their compulsive behaviors and urges. (Rachman, 2014, p.5) In the field of anxiety, studies also found that cognitive behavioral therapy showed favorable results in lowering symptoms for those diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. One of the majority methods of therapy for anxiety disorders is exposure therapy, which is the process when a client is directly confronted with the object that they fear throughout sessions. The process starts out slowly, until the last session where the client comes into direct contact with the object they fear. (Thoma, Pilecki, et al., 2015, p. 438)

Behavioral therapy helps eliminate undesirable actions and helps a person cope with certain situations. When curing phobias, exposure therapy (a type of behavioral therapy) exposes the patient to his/her fear in a gradual process. This helps the patient overcome their anxiety without experiencing danger. In Geraldo’s case,

The participant completed a questionnaire prior to treatment, and then again upon commencement of treatment (Taylor & Reeder, 2015). Ultimately she completed a total of 18 hours of therapy over the course of four weeks (Taylor & Reeder, 2015). During the course of treatment, the participant did indicate improvements in her OCD and anxiety. However, her improvements did tend to fluctuate over the course of treatment (Taylor & Reeder, 2015).

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidenced based treatment modality used to treat children, adolescents and adults. CBT has proven useful in treatment for a multitude of diagnoses, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, eating disorders, and obsessive-compulsive disorders (Farmer & Chapman, 2008, p. 3). This modality looks at how cognitions, sometimes maladaptive, contribute the psychological and behavioral issues.

CBT is oriented towards empowering the patients. Within this specific, brief psycho-therapeutic treatment modality, the emphasis is on providing patients with skills to offset maladaptive symptoms. The two primary goals of CBT is to first create a therapeutic alliance between client and therapist and then, to use that alliance to facilitate treatment techniques within therapy sessions to create

In addition to the “home remedies” to overcome obsessive compulsive disorder, there are alternative solutions to helping one’s disorder. In a

Gabie’s treatment plan is primarily to address her OCD and MDD diagnosis. Her presenting problems of obsessive suicidal thoughts, obsessions, depressive symptoms, fatigue, lack of interest in daily activities, feelings of hopelessness, compulsive behaviors creating loss of sleep and loss of appetite will hopefully improve by addressing her OCD symptoms and depression. Gabie and clinician will identify and modify obsessive thoughts, intermediate beliefs, and core beliefs by using effective CBT techniques of educating and thoughts tracking, along with EX/RP techniques of exposing Gabie to fear invoking situations and learning response prevention for her compulsive behaviors. We will use record tracking homework and in therapy session work to

According to Freud, the need for repressed material to enter consciousness is more powerful than the pleasure principle, so despite the best efforts of the individual to keep memories of the experience repressed, the psyche forces them into consciousness. The purpose is that by reliving the experience, the ego thereby tries to master and reduce the anxiety.”

Freud developed methods to unconsciously protect a person from having unpleasant thoughts. These are referred to as regression, repression, displacement and sublimation. Benson (1998: 58) describes regression as ‘going back to an earlier stage’, repression as ‘pushing down unwanted ideas to the unconscious and keeping them there’, displacement as diverting energy (libido) into another activity’ and sublimation as healthy displacement. Benson (1998: 58).

In today's world we have immensely progressed in both technology and knowledge, increasing by the minute as we further our research of the unknown in our world. One of those mysteries is the human brain, how the human brain is capable of altering our reality and fantasies. Psychology has taken many forms throughout history in search for the answers to the mystery of the human brain, but we are still left with questions as to what leads to certain traumas and psychological behaviors. It took many years to get to where our new knowledge is and even then, psychologists are well aware that it is nowhere close to knowing all the answers to cure certain traumas. Yet it is still a relief to know how much things have changed for the better, removing all or most harmful strategies that were once believed to "cure" patients. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is a movie that greatly reflects this idea and gives the perspective of what these techniques resembled and affected patients. This paper will thoroughly explain the abnormality of the situation and how instead of what was believed to cure patients actually backfired and made their experience all more traumatizing.