What is the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Triangle?

So today I would like to talk to you about a common evidence-based treatment called

cognitive

behavioral

therapy

and

what

I thought might be helpful to the viewer is to simply explain how we, as clinicians who practice CBT, conceptualize

cognitive

behavioral

therapy

in the context of how people work, so I'll walk you through the mechanism of how people work and then hopefully at home you can follow along and use your own examples to fill in the gaps. A good way to start thinking only about people. general or at least from a cognitive behavioral point of view, since this

triangle

really represents thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations and is

what

is called bidirectional model.

The two-way model simply implies that each part of the

triangle

affects the other, so let's take a simple example let's talk about anxiety or work a person feels scared has worried thoughts and has predictable physiological or bodily sensations such as heart palpitations sweaty palms tension dizziness sometimes I need to go to the bathroom right, do you see how the experience is emotional cognitive? or the thoughts and the physical right, all together is let's say what we call anxiety, now that is what happens within the individual, so let me explain to you why a particular experience happens to the individual, usually there is a trigger for this. thought feeling and a physical sensation now a trigger could be external and an external trigger could be something like a situation, an event or another person or an internal trigger is something like an impulse, say an impulse to eat or drink, an impulse, For example. like a sexual urge, a memory, something from your past or a fantasy that will trigger a particular thought feeling and physical sensation now, once there is a trigger, it triggers a thought, a physical sensation feeling, then it triggers an external behavior particular and behavior.

It's actually two different ways of a specific action, like going somewhere, getting somewhere, leaving a party, coming to a party or verbiage or basically what you say, rather than an action or a movement , you just say something, so let's look at a very simple example. a trigger that can potentially be at a social gathering if an individual is, say, struggling with social anxiety, a person will typically feel scared or fearful, that individual will have very predictable thoughts such as, potentially, that people don't like me, I feel ashamed, I'm not going. feel accepted in this circle of friends and have predictable bodily sensations, such as physiological tension, dizziness, heart palpitations, inability to find a particular phrase they want or the need to go to the bathroom, that internal experience probably creates a certain phrase. behavior, whether that person is the place to avoid the situation and leave or say something to other individuals such as: I'm not interested in engaging in a conversation right now.

I'm usually in social anxiety. It's an example of how people often leave a large social gathering. If you're thinking of this as a computer, you might want to relate it as an input, i.e. a trigger, an output, what the person doesn't actually do, and as a processing unit, many times when we become activated by an experience. particular unpleasantness that we use. behavior to manipulate or change the trigger to improve our emotional state, so going back to our social anxiety example, when an individual is in a social situation, they leave the situation, in other words, they say manipulate or change the trigger in order to reduce feelings of fear or fear, cognitive behavioral therapy now focuses not only on manipulating the trigger by changing behavior, but also on observing the thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations that are contributing to one's behavior again, which that triggers the thought, the feeling, the physical sensation and a behavior if you can think of an example in your life and I always encourage the people I work with to consider simple examples from their personal life of how they can begin to monitor what triggered a particular emotional or cognitive experience and what they actually did. which has to do with the experience that they avoid the situation in which they respond to something to change it or in which they are able to become aware of their thoughts and feelings and begin to work within the internal process of themselves instead of simply changing the environment how to do it is really the process of cognitive behavioral therapy thank you very much for joining