Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, step by step
Educational reference on the therapeutic approach.
- FormulationA shared model of what maintains the problem now.
- Identify automatic thoughtsThought records capture them in the moment.
- Examine the evidenceNot positive thinking — testing accuracy.
- Behavioural experimentsTest the prediction in reality.
- Relapse preventionThe client becomes their own therapist.
Common distortions
- All-or-nothing thinking
- Catastrophising
- Mind reading
- Overgeneralisation
- Discounting the positive
Educational reference. CBT has the largest evidence base for anxiety and depression, though effect sizes vary by condition.
Questions about the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy poster
- What’s on the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy poster?
- 5 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. Educational reference on the therapeutic approach. Formulation — A shared model of what maintains the problem now.; Identify automatic thoughts — Thought records capture them in the moment.; Examine the evidence — Not positive thinking — testing accuracy.; Behavioural experiments — Test the prediction in reality.; Relapse prevention — The client becomes their own therapist.. Educational reference. CBT has the largest evidence base for anxiety and depression, though effect sizes vary by condition.
- Who is the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy poster for?
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning clinical & abnormal can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy poster?
- Thoughts, feelings and behaviour interact. Change any one and the others shift. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Cognitive Behavioural Therapy belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
- Addiction, Anxiety and Biological Treatments sit alongside Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AddictionAnxietyBiological Treatments
- Is the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy poster print at?
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy loses nothing.Printing guide
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