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Bangalore: Dr Aaron Beck, the American psychiatrist who developed cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), died on 1 November at the age of 100.
CBT is used to treat a variety of psychiatric disorders and mental problems including depression, and Beck is credited with transforming the entire field of mental health through this method, which he developed in the 1980s and 1990s. Developed as a combination of cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy. .
Beck authored – himself and with co-authors – more than 600 published research papers in the field of mental health, and was the recipient of several prestigious mental health research awards, including the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 2006.
In 1994, she co-founded the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy with her daughter, renowned psychologist Judith S. Beck. The Institute is a non-profit organization in Philadelphia that provides training and resources for, and conducts research in, CBT.
ThePrint explains what CBT is and its benefits, for which the mental health world owes Beck its gratitude.
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What is CBT?
CBT is an intervention technique that aims to improve mental health and equip people with the ability to overcome daily challenges.
It was initially developed to treat depression, but today it is used to treat a variety of mental and mood disorders, with concern. It has also been effective in treating eating disorders, Personality Disorderssubstance use disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), ticks, suicidal thoughts, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), gambling addiction, smoking, chronic lumbago or lower back pain, and associated anxiety fibromyalgia.
CBT focuses on helping people challenge negative patterns in their thinking and beliefs, such as amplifying, destructive, and over-generalizing negative feelings. Such negative thoughts, which do not accurately reflect reality, are known as cognitive distortions, and lead to emotional distress and self-defeating or self-destructive behavior.
CBT challenges negative thoughts and encourages individuals to recognize cognitive distortions and reduce their effects.
It is a combination of behavioral therapy and cognitive therapy, where the former aims to identify and change self-destructive behavior, while the latter does so with thoughts. Beck also developed cognitive therapy.
The technique contrasts psychoanalysis or Freudian analysis by focusing on a problem-solving approach rather than attempting to understand a person’s thinking, behavior and personality as a whole. Psychoanalysis was developed by Sigmund Freud in the 1890s, and typically involves a patient lying on a couch and talking about a given subject while the analyst or therapist remains out of view of the patient. The process is much longer than CBT or just behavioral therapy, often lasting years, and goes deep into a person’s childhood, dreams, aspirations, trauma, and more.
After several scientific studies in the 1990s, CBT began become more widespread, thanks to both its focused approach as well as its cost-effectiveness compared to psychoanalysis. I
IBeck’s cognitive triad
Beck’s cognitive triad, also known as the negative triad or depressive cognitive triad, forms the core of CBT and holds that three factors work in a feedback loop and influence each other, depression and anxiety. present and enhance themselves during
These are negative thoughts about the world, negative thoughts about the future, and negative thoughts about oneself.
Negative thoughts often lead to cognition distortions or cognition biases, some of which are common. These include exaggerating or exaggerating the importance or impact of a negative event, minimizing or minimizing a positive event, personalizing or attributing oneself to a negative impact, and arbitrary inferences or conclusions based on insufficient evidence. Includes removal.
Therapy through CBT identifies such negative thought patterns and then aims to apply the practice of new skills that can be applied in real-world situations when such thoughts arise.
Beck also developed the Beck Depression Inventory, a 35-point questionnaire that is often considered standard. testing To measure the level of depression in individuals.
(Edited by Shreyas Sharma)
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