CBT & Mental HealthYear 10 Life Science

Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Shakespeare

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy The way we think affects the way we

feel which affects what we do

Can we control all events in our lives?

What can we control?

What can we control? How we think about situations & consequently How we feel about situations and what

we do about them as a result

Unhelpful thinking styles These can lead to us misinterpreting

situations and talking very unproductively to ourselves

We can challenge unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more helpful thoughts

Common thinking errors

All or Nothing Thinking

Over-generalisation

Mind Reading

Fortune Telling

Magnification

Minimisation

Catastrophising

CBT strategies When we find ourselves thinking in any

one of these 7 ways, we need to tell ourselves to stop and practise some thinking strategies that will allow us to challenge these unhelpful ways of thinking

E.g. What’s the evidence I won’t do well on the test? Have I got a crystal ball?

Problem Solving

Addressing Core Beliefs

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