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Can someone explain the processes involved in Cognitive Beahviour Therapy.
I went to a conference today all about depression and it's management in primary care, and as soon as the speaker mentioned CBT my colleague got really angry and said she had to leave. Later she explained she thinks CBT is a load of bollocks. So...
Does anyone have any experiences of it?
I went to a conference today all about depression and it's management in primary care, and as soon as the speaker mentioned CBT my colleague got really angry and said she had to leave. Later she explained she thinks CBT is a load of bollocks. So...
Does anyone have any experiences of it?
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Most mental health services are rubbish. I think the evidence on CPNs is quite weak, and there was a recent paper showing that intensive interventions do not prevent episodes of child abuse and neglect.
Anyway, as with all these things CBT is worth a shot. I personally have no experience of it though.
She's training to be a counsellor. She doesn't like the 'quick fix' emphasis.
As for CPN intervention, I think it's too short. After an initial three months you're kicked back out there for someone else to deal with.
I have no experience of CBT, although I would be wary of anything that claims to be "quick fix", because I don't think that there is such a thing.
I had CBT, well kind of. I began it with my shrink, but then I got really low so she concentrated on keeping me alive rather than continuing with CBT. Xapis is right, it is a lot of work, I started by filling in "thought diaries" and then after a couple weeks of that, i had to fill it in and challenge my negative thoughts. If you want copies of the sheets I had, just send me a PM, and I'll e mail them to you.
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One of my lecturers at uni uses CBT as she is a professional psychologist as well as a lecturer. She doesn't see it as a 'quick-fix', but more of a process. She says that in general there is about a 6 week process with evaluations thorughout mapping the progess of the client from maladaptive thought processes to more 'normal' thought processes.
I have no experience of CBT personally.
i'm not sure how well it would work for depression though, although have never had it for that.
if it works so well, why did i end up having 6 weeks out of school afterwards, after a possible breakdown, and felt unable to go out of the house. the CBT left me feeling scared and confused not any better. i had 6 weeks of it, but after that i was left to my own devices. I had to rely on a charity for counciling, and all i was offered after the CBT was prozac...and this was when i was 11.
it is just another quick fix which really doesn't work.
my guess is it didn't work because it wasn't addressing the problems you were having. it is supposed to be shorter-term (i think the max. recommended is about 6 months, although more often than not its more likely to be about 6 weeks... but it all depends on the issues the clients bring to the counselling sessions.) so it is shorter term than something like humanistic counselling becasue it focuses directly on overcoming a specific problem and learning the skills to cope with it better.
in terms of suffering abuse - i cannot see why cbt would have been recommended tbh. unless your gp thought you just needed some counselling and cbt was all that was avaliable, so may be it was more so a case of something is better than nothing?!