Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT is a form of psychotherapy that teaches you to look at problematic situations differently and to deal with them differently. Cognitive behavioral therapy assumes that problems are influenced and maintained by someone's thoughts and behavior. By examining, discussing and changing those thoughts and behavior, the psychological complaints decrease. During the treatment, you actively work together with the therapist to improve your complaints. CBT is often used for mood complaints and brooding.
What is CBT?
“Thinking is the most overrated human activity.”
- Wendell Berry
Thought log
A commonly used exercise in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the thought record or thought log. A thought log focuses on the Event, Thought, and Emotion.
Event
What actually happened.
Thought
What you think or interpret based on the event.
Emotion
How those thoughts make you feel.
You use this thought log to gain insight into how your thoughts and feelings arise in response to certain events, so that you can recognize and adjust negative patterns.