Case Study: Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

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Cognitive – Behavior Therapy
Cognitive behavior therapy, also short for CBT, is part of a psychotherapy treatment that can solve mental problems and boost happiness by modifying dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and thoughts. CBT focuses on encouraging, and challenging patient’s cognitions and change the dysfunctional behavior patterns by effective solutions (Jason, 2015). It’s also used to treat the mental and emotional part of behavior such as an eating disorder. This type of therapy is done to change how you think and feel about food, eating, and body image because it can also improve poor eating habits and prevent relapse.
Cognitive therapy approaches plays a role for cognitive factors by negative evaluation, perfectionism, and core belief about self-worth. Behavioral factors include dietary restraints, binge eating, purging, self-harm, and body avoidance to improve her cognitive therapy (Jason, 2015). Mary’s negative view of herself caused her eating disorder. Her thoughts result is shame, guilt, and anxiety because it triggers her to become a perfectionist. She feels like this is the only way she might take control of her life, which become an eating cycle that’s she feels the need to follow. As a therapist,

The first condition is unconditional positive regard, which means the therapist, must be empathetic and non-judgmental with expressing their feelings of understanding, trust, and confidence that encourage Mary to make her own decisions and choices. The second condition is empathetic understanding, which means the therapist completely understands and accepts Mary’s thoughts and feelings. The last condition is congruence, which means the therapist will carry no air of authority or professional superiority except present a true and accessible self that clients can see is honest and transparent with her eating habits and past