Beck's Cognitive Therapy

The Application of Aaron Beck's Cognitive Therapy on Depression and Anxiety
I believe the style of counseling that I will pursue will be based around Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy. I find Beck’s theory to be not only interesting but invaluable in the treatment of clients suffering from depression and anxiety. Learning to affectively apply the techniques of Cognitive Therapy will enable me to help families and Children that suffer with these mental disorders that are a common problem in American (Cite Find Something to back this up). Individuals that suffer from depression may feel that there is no point to life, potentially leading them to suicide; Individuals with a panic disorder may feel that the world is closing in around them and that

It is imperative to understand not only what, but why the client is feeling the way they do about themselves and their environment. It may take many sessions for the underlying reasons for their negative way of thinking to surface but without this breakthrough, for the client as well as the counselor, it will be difficult to focus on the root of the problem. Once the root of the problem is determined, the counselor can begin using therapeutic techniques to assist in the guidance of the client having a better perception of the outside world and a better self-Schema. Over time the goal is to reduce the first element of Beck’s theory, the clients negative outlook, what Beck referred to as The Cognitive Triad. I believe that properly applying Beck’s techniques will help the client transition from a negative to a positive

The therapist can then develop the correct course of treatment for the client’s individual needs (Gerig, 2007). There are a number of mental disorders that Cognitive therapy can be applied to. Applying CT to depression and anxiety, however, may be two of the most important. In treatment the therapist must first make the patient aware of their cognitive distortions and the time or event that they may have evolved from. When dealing with Anxiety the therapist must invoke a anxiety attack in order to make the patient aware of the underlying problem because they have less anxiety in the presence of a professional therapist. When dealing with depression the therapist does not have to draw out anything because the depression is already there (Beck,