COGNITIVE THERAPY: As It Relates to Food Addiction & Emotional Eating
Underlying the cognitive model is the view that mental events-that is, expectations, beliefs, memories, and so on-can cause behavior, If these mental events are changed, behavior change will follow. Believing this, the cognitive therapist looks for the cause, or etiology, of psychological disorders in disordered mental events. For example, if someone is depressed, the cognitive the rapist will look for the cause of the individual's depression in her beliefs or thoughts. Perhaps she believes that she has no control over the events of her life. Thinking that she has no control, the individual may well become passive, sad, and eventually clinically depressed.
Successful therapy for such disorders consists of changing these thoughts. In the case of the depressive, a cognitive therapist will draw out, analyze, and then change the individual's thoughts, hoping to discover, and then reverse the thoughts that caused the depressive's feeling of hopelessness.
To understand what a cognitive therapist does, let us return to the case study of the two speech givers. What if the high-anxiety speaker becomes increasingly depressed when he sees members of the audience walking out? He may label the speech, and himself, a failure. Perhaps he gets so depressed that he can no longer give a good speech, or worse, refuses to speak before an audience. Because of this problem, he may enter therapy. What will a cognitive therapist do?
Because a cognitive therapist is concerned primarily with what a person thinks and believes, he or she will inquire about the anxious speaker's thoughts. Upon finding out that the speaker thinks that he is boring his audience,
the therapist will pursue two hypotheses. First, there is the hypothesis that the speaker in reality is boring. If, however, in the course of the therapy, the therapist learns that the person's speeches have in the past been received very well and that some have even been reprinted, the therapist will conclude that the first hypothesis is wrong. After discarding the hypothesis that the speaker really is boring, the therapist will turn to the hypothesis that the speaker' s thoughts are distorting reality.
According to this hypothesis the speaker is selecting negative evidence by focusing too narrowly on one event: he is thinking too much about those members of the audience who walked out. He believes that they think he is boring, that they dislike him, and so on. Here, the therapist gets the client to point out the contrary evidence. First, he has a fine speaking record: Second, only a very small number of people walked out; some probably had important appointments to catch and were glad to have heard at least part of the speech. Perhaps some of them were bored. But third, and most important, he minimized the fact that almost all of the audience remained, and he paid no attention to the fact that the audience applauded enthusiastically. The therapist's job is to draw out all of the distorted negative thoughts, to have the client confront the contrary evidence, and then to get the client to change these thoughts.
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overcoming emotional eating
Successful therapy for such disorders consists of changing these thoughts. In the case of the depressive, a cognitive therapist will draw out, analyze, and then change the individual's thoughts, hoping to discover, and then reverse the thoughts that caused the depressive's feeling of hopelessness.
To understand what a cognitive therapist does, let us return to the case study of the two speech givers. What if the high-anxiety speaker becomes increasingly depressed when he sees members of the audience walking out? He may label the speech, and himself, a failure. Perhaps he gets so depressed that he can no longer give a good speech, or worse, refuses to speak before an audience. Because of this problem, he may enter therapy. What will a cognitive therapist do?
Because a cognitive therapist is concerned primarily with what a person thinks and believes, he or she will inquire about the anxious speaker's thoughts. Upon finding out that the speaker thinks that he is boring his audience,
the therapist will pursue two hypotheses. First, there is the hypothesis that the speaker in reality is boring. If, however, in the course of the therapy, the therapist learns that the person's speeches have in the past been received very well and that some have even been reprinted, the therapist will conclude that the first hypothesis is wrong. After discarding the hypothesis that the speaker really is boring, the therapist will turn to the hypothesis that the speaker' s thoughts are distorting reality.
According to this hypothesis the speaker is selecting negative evidence by focusing too narrowly on one event: he is thinking too much about those members of the audience who walked out. He believes that they think he is boring, that they dislike him, and so on. Here, the therapist gets the client to point out the contrary evidence. First, he has a fine speaking record: Second, only a very small number of people walked out; some probably had important appointments to catch and were glad to have heard at least part of the speech. Perhaps some of them were bored. But third, and most important, he minimized the fact that almost all of the audience remained, and he paid no attention to the fact that the audience applauded enthusiastically. The therapist's job is to draw out all of the distorted negative thoughts, to have the client confront the contrary evidence, and then to get the client to change these thoughts.
Other Topics:
is food addiction an eating disorder?
can you be addicted to eating?
food addiction binge eating
emotional eating & food journal
how to stop emotional eating
sugar addiction binge eating
overcoming emotional eating
If you are serious about changing,
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NOTES:
Psychology and therapies
Alexithymia
Art Therapy
Autonomy
Behavioral Systems Family Therapy (BSFT)
Black-or-white (all-or-nothing) thinking
Central coherence
Cognition
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and Enhanced Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-E)
Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT)
Conjoint Family Therapy (CFT)
Contingency Management
Coping Skills/Mechanisms
Dance/movement therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
Egodystonic
Egosyntonic
Emotional eating
Empowerment
Enmeshment
Experiential or expressive therapies
Exposure with Response Prevention & Exposure Meals/Foods
Externalization
Family Based Therapy (FBT)
Family Systems Therapy
Family unity
Fear foods
Food police
Grieving an eating disorder
Guilt
Hypnotherapy, Guided Image Therapy, Relaxation Therapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Intuitive eating (also called normalized eating)
Life events and traumatic factors
Magic Plate
Mandometer Method
Maudsley Approach, Maudsley Therapy, Family Based Therapy (FBT)
Meal Plan
Mental illness
Mindful eating
Motivation
Motivational enhancement therapy (MET)
Multifamily Therapy
Multiple-Family Day Treatment (MFDT)
Narrative Therapy
Neutral stance
Nutritional Therapy
Operant conditioning or behavior modification
Parent Counseling/Parent Coaching with a Clinician
Parent Support Group
Parent-to-parent consultation
Parentectomy
Psychiatrist
Psycho-Educational Parent Group
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic approach
Psychodynamic personality theories
Psychodynamic perspective
Psychologist
Psychosomatic family
Psychotherapy, psychotherapist
Recovery
Relapse
Relapse prevention plan
Self Monitoring
Self-Esteem
Separated family therapy (SFT)
Set-shifting
Severity/intensity
Sibling role
Strategic Family Therapy
Stress
Structural Family Therapy
Systematic Desensitization (graduated exposure therapy)
Targeted Behavior (TB)
Treatment team
Treatment Team Collaboration
Triggers
Violence
Willfulness
Willingness
I encourage you to schedule a FREE CONSULTATION with the treatment method I recommend:
http://www.theliberatormethod.com/Welcome.html
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NOTES:
Psychology and therapies
Alexithymia
Art Therapy
Autonomy
Behavioral Systems Family Therapy (BSFT)
Black-or-white (all-or-nothing) thinking
Central coherence
Cognition
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and Enhanced Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-E)
Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT)
Conjoint Family Therapy (CFT)
Contingency Management
Coping Skills/Mechanisms
Dance/movement therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
Egodystonic
Egosyntonic
Emotional eating
Empowerment
Enmeshment
Experiential or expressive therapies
Exposure with Response Prevention & Exposure Meals/Foods
Externalization
Family Based Therapy (FBT)
Family Systems Therapy
Family unity
Fear foods
Food police
Grieving an eating disorder
Guilt
Hypnotherapy, Guided Image Therapy, Relaxation Therapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
Intuitive eating (also called normalized eating)
Life events and traumatic factors
Magic Plate
Mandometer Method
Maudsley Approach, Maudsley Therapy, Family Based Therapy (FBT)
Meal Plan
Mental illness
Mindful eating
Motivation
Motivational enhancement therapy (MET)
Multifamily Therapy
Multiple-Family Day Treatment (MFDT)
Narrative Therapy
Neutral stance
Nutritional Therapy
Operant conditioning or behavior modification
Parent Counseling/Parent Coaching with a Clinician
Parent Support Group
Parent-to-parent consultation
Parentectomy
Psychiatrist
Psycho-Educational Parent Group
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic approach
Psychodynamic personality theories
Psychodynamic perspective
Psychologist
Psychosomatic family
Psychotherapy, psychotherapist
Recovery
Relapse
Relapse prevention plan
Self Monitoring
Self-Esteem
Separated family therapy (SFT)
Set-shifting
Severity/intensity
Sibling role
Strategic Family Therapy
Stress
Structural Family Therapy
Systematic Desensitization (graduated exposure therapy)
Targeted Behavior (TB)
Treatment team
Treatment Team Collaboration
Triggers
Violence
Willfulness
Willingness