Cognitive
This paper should not exceed seven pages (double-spaced, 12-point font, one-inch margins). In addition to your seven-page paper, attach a one-page case summary that provides identifying information, chief complaint/reason for referral, and a brief summary of relevant biopsychosocial history on your client. Please incorporate a minimum of 6 citations, APA style, drawn from 6 reference sources at least 4 of which are in the course bibliography.
1. Identify the client’s maladaptive and adaptive automatic thoughts, intermediate beliefs, and core beliefs about him/her self, other people, and the future. How do environmental/cultural factors influence the client’s cognitions? Write out your response in paragraph form. Additionally, complete and append the case conceptualization worksheet.
2. Referring to page 32 in the Leahy chapter, where you will find a checklist of cognitive distortions, give examples of how negative, faulty, or catastrophic thinking or beliefs contribute to the client’s negative feelings (depression, anxiety, guilt, shame, frustration, etc.).
3. Outline ways you use, or could use, specific cognitive techniques to help the client replace limiting thinking patterns and beliefs with more empowering, positive ones. From the cognitive literature, name the techniques you have in mind and describe how they are applied.
4. Provide sample dialogue, actual or imagined, in which you show yourself trying to implement one cognitive technique with a client. Show, or imagine, their effects. The dialogue should be half of a page, single-spaced.
5. Clinicians’ feelings, behaviors, and relationships are also affected by their guiding ideas. Discuss any instances in which your own beliefs or attitudes may have negatively impacted treatment. Why did that happen? Were you able to alter your own thinking in a constructive way? How?
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