Cognitive Therapy Research

Commonly referred to as talk therapy, the approach thrives on the thought that feelings and behavior are universally connected to an individual and that each individual has the ability to meet their goals and overcome difficulties (Beck, 2006). To do so, they recognize and change those thoughts that are considered unhelpful and inaccurate. Individuals also have to acknowledge their problematic behaviors and the distress in their emotional responses. In acknowledging and responding to distress, individuals have to work collaboratively with their therapists to grow their belief testing and modifying. Identification of the already distorted thoughts is primary to creating relations with individuals by changing behaviors. Currently, there are no psychological treatments with solid research that authenticates its own hidden constructs. The domination of cognitive is founded on its nature of problem examination to determine their origin.

Over the past decades, case conceptualization, socialization, trauma, attribution, and maladaptive schemas have often been based perspectives of cognitive therapy. These perspectives have aided in building programs that reduce depression vulnerability or encourage imageries that help in the reconstruction and recalling of childhood experiences. Roles as a counselor My roles as a counselor under cognitive therapy are mostly anchored in listening, encouraging and teaching. As a trained cognitive therapist, providing education to a patient is the basis of every treatment. Getting to make patients understand their situations, their predicaments and the solutions to them is all encompassed in education is primary. Showing patients how to manage their reactions to mitigate distress impacts is crucial to managing then negative implications of their responses.

Advocacy for client and self-advocacy When therapy patients are confronted by fear, disruptions, and uncertainty in most aspects of their lives, they are supposed to educate themselves and make decisions that may be beyond their comprehension. However, therapists take a significant role in decisions that confront their clients. When it comes to self-advocacy, therapists come forward to ask patients to give more questions on areas they don’t understand. In allowing client`s questions, the therapy incorporates the values and goals of patients in therapy. Therapists encourage a patient to take an active and educated role in making their treatment decisions. To do so, they have to seek the second opinion from parties adversely conversant with cognitive therapy, in this case, cognitive behavior therapists.

In cases where there is a patient-therapist breakdown, the patient is often encouraged to find a new care provider (Ratts, 2009). Cognitive therapy has demonstrated its strengths and effectiveness by depicting favorable long-term outcomes of delivering one from depressions and anxiety disorders (Kodal, 2018). However, some studies have differed from the conversation basing their concerns on situational reactions that are rare and repetitive in nature. These reactions are deep within individuals are always long-term since independent, different stimuli stimulate them. In testing the gold standards for cognitive therapy, the therapeutic approach has called for multiple approaches to the treatment of cognitive distress due to the current limitations in treatment outcome for cognitive behavior treatment (Van Emmerik, 2018). Though the research may have contradictions and some of its shortcomings, it presents various recognitions to which the approach has contravened the duration of the therapy.