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COGNITIVE THERAPY

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Beck suggests that core beliefs are critical to the development of one’s thinking processes, but goes on to suggest that it is usually important to initially focus on ____ .

A	automatic thoughts
B	intermediate beliefs
C	irrational beliefs
D	rules and assumptions

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Beck (2005) identified the existence of three categories of negative core beliefs about the self: helplessness, unlovability, and worthlessness.

Detailed explanation-2: -About Beck Institute CBT is based on the theory that the way individuals perceive a situation is more closely connected to their reaction than the situation itself. Individuals’ perceptions are often distorted and unhelpful, particularly when they are distressed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Working with depressed patients, he found that they experienced streams of negative thoughts that seemed to pop up spontaneously. He termed these cognitions “automatic thoughts, ” and discovered that their content fell into three categories: negative ideas about themselves, the world and the future.

Detailed explanation-4: -Beck developed cognitive therapy with the belief that a person’s experiences result in cognitions or thoughts. These cognitions are connected with schemas, which are core beliefs developed from early life, to create our view of the world and determine our emotional states and behaviors.

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