Contextual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | CBT The Importance oc Context

I can't say how they're going to rectify that, although it's important to recognize that being in that particular situation, being a good daughter, you know there's more to it than whether you're still married or not, there's a lot of different things that come into play. being a good daughter and being obviously culturally responsive in examining that phenomenological reality with that person addressing disinterested content, asking people who you want to be and explaining to me why each of these characteristics is important, how the current situation prevents you from being who you want to be, if you even know, they might say there's really nothing stopping me from doing it well, okay, let's figure out how to make it happen and then what areas of your life are going the way you want, and this is really important because many Sometimes people come into our office and say, you know, life sucks, nothing, I can never get a break, nothing goes my way, to encourage them to address those global attributions of everyone or no one talking and identifying things. that are going at least reasonably well as they want.

I have yet to meet someone who can't identify at least one or two things that are going right. Are there other ways to achieve or conceptualize the same goal? You know, the things they want. If someone says I want to wear a size 3 because they think it will make them attractive and adorable, then maybe we want to look at what really makes people attractive and adorable: Will being a size 3 make you more adorable or is it not being a doctor to go? a   the only way to prove that you are successful  is to be loyal and trustworthy regardless of the   situation the only way to prove that  you are not a quitter sometimes situations   where you know you are a job or you know, we will stick with a job and the work is simply wearing down all the other aspects or most of the other aspects of your rich and meaningful life, it is detracting from those yes, you can be loyal, but at a certain point you have You have to decide who you are loyal to: are you loyal to yourself, your family and your friends, or are you more loyal to your work?

Loyalty can go many different ways, encouraging people to walk away, rather than saying I'm disloyal if I quit. taking a step back and going well maybe I'm being disloyal to this organization if I leave this job but in making that decision I'm also being loyal and help them differentiate that you can be. There are different explanations for loyalty as a process. It is also related to the awareness of one's own internal experience. Many people have difficulty paying attention to their internal experiences in a flexible way. They manage their impulses and feelings and identify those thoughts, feelings, impulses and sensations.

Our society. Our culture really encourages people to be thoughtless in the behaviors we want to encourage. that people begin to be aware of and learn the skills to deal with their thoughts, feelings and impulses, so that they are not afraid of them, they are not afraid of their anger, they are not afraid of it overwhelming them, they are not afraid of their fear or their depression  or whatever, they can accept it, you know, sometimes after breaking up a relationship, you can be sad, you can be grieving the loss of that relationship and you can choose, for example, to say "it's okay, it's okay for you". me to be depressed be depressed today I'm going to take today and you know, I'm going to allow myself to feel my feelings and then tomorrow I'm going to start using my energy to improve the next moment giving people permission to be compassionate with themselves and feel their feelings, it's okay to feel heartbreak, it's okay to experience that, you rarely know, I've never seen it as completely destroying someone, um, when they let themselves feel something, it can be scary sometimes, especially if you're not. accustomed to feeling feelings we want to help people before opening pandora's box we want to make sure they have the skills and tools to manage impulses and feelings and then encourage them to start being aware daily of how they feel because then they can make changes minor ones here and there instead of waiting until it's a big problem and you know life seems to be falling apart and there's a lot more to fix.

Mindfulness journals and journals are really helpful, not everyone wants to journal. I hate journaling, but I'll make a record, I'll fill out a worksheet, that's fine, whatever helps the person, whatever encourages them to do it, encourage them to think about doing it when they wake up, before breakfast. , before lunch, before dinner and before bed, and that's five. times, but it doesn't take long to check how I feel, what my thoughts are, what my impulses are, what I feel I want right now. Encourage meditation to increase awareness and there are videos on our YouTube channel that go over dozens of different types of meditation, not all meditations are going to work for all people, it is very important that you find a form of meditation that is comfortable for you and that allows them to increase their awareness of themselves in the world, they can use

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activities that involve exposure and notation, such as anger, when they have a thought, when they feel anger, anger, they notice it, they can also practice thinking about things that make them angry and reduce the intensity so that they become familiar with the feeling of anger and have a sense of mastering that feeling so that they do not fear it when it happens, it is important that they develop relapse prevention plans to manage the internal processes, it is not just addiction, it is also it's depression, anxiety, cravings and whatever else, relapse prevention, relapse, remember, remember, it means going back to an old way of being, so a mental health relapse for someone who has major depressive disorder, maybe having that depression, those symptoms of depression come back, we want to see how to prevent that for that person, we want to help them discover these internal processes.

It's not just thoughts, it's not just emotions, it's also physiological sensations, when people start to feel exhausted and exhausted, that can contribute to them feeling like their circadian rhythms are out of control, which can lead to a cascade of effects that can trigger depression or anxiety or contribute to Impulsive behaviors have people make a committed action worksheet for each thing that is important to them, so if being healthy is important to your client, they will make a committed action worksheet to do this, they will identify all the reasons why they want to be healthy. all the expected obstacles and the ways to deal with them and the strategies to achieve that goal health can take two years to arrive what are you going to do this week what are you going to do this month what are you going to do over the next three months we want to encourage the people to adopt the perspective of the self in the past, present and future, who you were, who you are now and who you want to be.

You may have been a very depressed helpless child, who are you now and compared to who are you now who do you want to be encourage them to develop the um past present and future we want to encourage people to have the ability to take the perspective of others what would your best friend say about you how would she describe you or him describe you how would he imagine this situation what would be his perspective of this situation I know a lot of things come up at work my husband and I work together and I'll let you know he gets nervous and he just He looks at me he says it's really no big deal and from his perspective it's not a rigid selfish

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or the inability to take other people's perspectives can impede effective problem solving if we want to hold on to this idea that I am and always will be a failure, then it is going to be more difficult, we need to examine the reasons why the person is so afraid or unwilling to abandon that conceptualization.

Encourage people to look at their definition of a rich and meaningful life and think about what their past self tells them. your current situation what your future self might tell you about your current situation your past self may say this is dangerous get out of there you will never succeed your future self may have a very different edict for you to follow than you might Tell someone else in a similar situation and how your current thoughts, feelings, and behaviors help you move toward what's important to you. Contextual CBT involves understanding the phenomenological truth of people. Your personal perception of reality.

Problems can arise when people think or feel that they are not. who they should be or things are not as they should be they hate that word should they are not aware of their inner feelings, thoughts and impulses, so they are operating on autopilot, they are not aware of the motivation in that particular

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for their feelings, thoughts and impulses, you know why. Do I feel this way right now and use rigid conceptualization and problem solving without considering context or perspective? Contextual CBT uses awareness, mindfulness, radical acceptance and psychological flexibility activities to help people move toward a rich and meaningful life instead of trying to