Values and Values Work in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
| Autor: | Radovan Hruby, Jana Vyskocilova, Milos Slepecky, Marie Ociskova, Jan Prasko, Michaela Holubova, Zuzana Sedlackova, Marketa Marackova |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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050103 clinical psychology
Psychotherapist Process (engineering) medicine.medical_treatment Cognitive restructuring media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Cognition 030227 psychiatry Cognitive behavioral therapy 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health Identification (information) 0302 clinical medicine medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Time management Consciousness Psychology Set (psychology) media_common |
| Zdroj: | European Psychiatry. 33:S456-S457 |
| ISSN: | 1778-3585 0924-9338 |
| Popis: | BackgroundValues influence our thought patterns, emotions, wishes, and needs. Although individuals may be fully aware of their value systems, these often lie more or less outside the area of full consciousness. At least occasional awareness of one's priorities and set of values may be an effective means of self-regulation.MethodLiterature review and description of cases.ResultsCognitive behavioral therapy is aimed at dealing with practical problems and goals in life through changes in cognitive processes, behavior, and emotional reactions. Changes to some values naturally accompany changes to these processes. Life values also underlie motivation to achieve therapeutic changes. For this reason, clarification of patients’ life values is important to therapists as focusing on values aids in connecting therapeutic goals with important areas of life. In addition to a better understanding of patients’ life stories and difficulties that have brought them to a psychotherapist, the identified value system may become a part of everyday CBT strategies such as time management, cognitive restructuring or accommodation of conditional assumptions.ConclusionIdentification and assessment of life values and their use in the course of therapy is a process that increases patients’ motivation to face unpleasant emotions and make careful steps in CBT in order to achieve therapeutic goals. Knowing the patient's life values may help the therapist set therapeutic goals that are associated with significant areas of the patient's life. Together with other CBT techniques, this value-oriented approach increases the effectiveness of therapy and durability of its outcomes after its completion.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest. |
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