Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

To begin with, Cognitive Behavior Therapy or CBT is a way to open the client's mind as to their thought process, so that he/she can reflect on their way of thinking, emotional connection, and behavior concerning the issues or problems in their lives, co-partnering with the therapist.

Next, the major principles of Cognitive Theory begin with development or a framework, for the client so he/she can understand their life events, experiences, and develop a plan to help them understand coping strategies, core beliefs, underline assumptions, and personality disorders. Given that, the major principles of Cognitive Theory involve organizing, acquiring, processing, and using knowledge in relation to the negative events, happening in the client’s life. “For example, the cognitive schema model triggers automatic thoughts or basic beliefs, taken in form of cognitive distortions such

as all-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralization, selective abstraction, mind reading, labeling and mislabeling, negative prediction, catastrophizing, magnification or minimization, and personalization, developed by Dr. Aaron T. Beck” (Sharf, 2016, p. 393). For the most part, the key ideas behind the principles are the mind is a scientific study guide, human beings are informational processors and mental guides representing behaviors and emotions, and social and cultural factors influence the cognitive/intellectual state and how it's processed.

Third, cognitive interventions used for treating clients with addiction and substance disorders have a wide range of inventions. “Nevertheless, the general approach with cognitive therapy is to not construe automatic thoughts, but to examine them through either logical analysis or possible experimentation” (Sharf, 2016, p. 403). By the same token, the goal is to improve the behaviors leading connected with disorders, by incorporating treatment options and strategies for a positive outcome for the client. Equally important, to change the mind of a person from wrong to right, involves using motivational interviewing which increase the chances to change addictive behaviors” (Wiers, & Stacy, 2006, p.295). Nevertheless, medication and behavior therapy can improve the status of the individual thought process and desire for drugs. “Therefore, effective treatment options are possible for multiple addictions such as collecting evidence to address the client’s needs perchance, using pharmacological or behavioral interventions, which boost executive inhibitory control in addicts” (Mehmet, DeVito, Waters, & Carroll, (n.d), p.452).

Fourth, the populations suited for treatment using cognitive interventions are adolescents, couple’s, children, and families the main goal with the use of cognitive therapy. For the most part, cognitive therapy is there to help an individual achieve remission from their disorder to prevent future relapse or pain within their circle assisting in their journey.
Last, the CBT model is a helping aid for the therapist and positive reinforcement, for the client being treated. Therefore, creating and open the door for another therapist expertise to address the concerns of the client and help them get back on track. Not to mention, preventing future relapse or providing an opportunity for the client, to experience remission from their disorder.
Part 2.
The scenario of Bill:
On the contrary, Bill’s thought process and the information he presented to the therapist indicated, he chooses to divulge in drugs, knowing his new friends are substance abusers as well.

In this case, Bill’s thought processes are a filter for underlying psychological disorders and the choices he makes, which affect his substance abuse problem. To begin with, Bill’s new friends mean him no good, however, he remembers is old friends were fun good people. Next, the present friendships are triggers for him to use drugs because they all use drugs, which blocks his thought process of the fun times he had with his old

friends.
By the same token, he reverts to fun times hiking and camping, yet waits for someone else to give him the answers to his problems when the answers are plain as day to his trouble heart. However, he understands if he continues to travel down the road, he will relapse. Furthermore, the fun times gave him high of no other, until drugs were introduced. Nevertheless, he wants to fit in with his new friends and does so without thinking rationality. Hence, he refuses to take responsibility for the actions and by denying his substance abuse problem. Also, Bill doubts his self to have self-control, when around his new friends and cocaine a weakness for him, when he wants to have fun. Last, Bill blamed himself for his destruction, yet he knew his triggers and the negative friends.

References

Sharf, R.

S. (2016). Theories of psychotherapy and counseling:

Concepts and cases (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning. ISBN-13: 9781305087323

Sofuoglu, M., DeVito, E., Waters, A., & Carroll, K. (n.d). Cognitive enhancement as a treatment for drug addictions. Neuropharmacology, 64452-463.

Wiers, R. W., & Stacy, A. W. (2006). Implicit Cognition and Addiction. Current Directions In Psychological Science, 15(6), 292-296.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2006.00455.x