Cognitive Restructuring of Automatic Thoughts

In the fourth program in the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques and Strategies Series, Keith S. Dobson, Pamela A. Hays, and Amy Wenzel demonstrate and discuss essential techniques for helping clients identify distorted thoughts and move forward with positive alternatives. The guest experts explore interventions such as the application of thought assessment and modification, use of the thought record, and ways to help the client detect unhealthy beliefs that underlie negative, situation-specific automatic thoughts. Following each demonstration clip, the three experts explore the context and background of the techniques shown and discuss variations on how they might be used.