Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

31 May 2025


Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)



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Cognitive behavioral therapy was initially developed in 1964 by Aaron Temkin Beck and is widely used to help people with phobias, depression, anxieties, or addictions. Follow the story of Lily to see how it can be used to treat school anxiety.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 What is CBT
0:27 What is it used for
0:34 Meet Lily
0:44 First session
01:06 False core beliefs
01:30 Socratic Method
01:45 Interview
02:15 Lily's problem
02:27 Homework
02:45 Lily identifies the issue
03:10 Second session
03:43 Strategies
04:08 Setting goals
04:24 Lily begins to change
04:45 Aaron Temkin Beck
05:16 Our amazing Patrons!
05:25 Support us

COLLABORATORS
Script: Jonas Koblin
Artist: Pascal Gaggelli
Voice: Mithril
Coloring: Nalin
Editing: Peera Lertsukittipongsa
Production: Selina Bador
Production Assistant: Bianka
Proofreading: Susan

DIG DEEPER
Take a more in-depth look at journaling with this article on thought diaries.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kognitive_Verhaltenstherapie
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/cognitive-behavioral-therapy/about/pac-20384610

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Types, Techniques, Uses


https://www.psychologytools.com/self-help/what-is-cbt/

CLASSROOM EXERCISE
Journalling is a fundamental part of CBT. Why not recommend your students start journaling their worries about school? Together, if they ask for help, or individually if they want to keep their journals private, you can set SMART goals based on reducing stress and anxiety around school.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is based on the idea that certain situations trigger false core beliefs that negatively impact our thoughts, emotions, behavior, and physical reactions. Once we learn how to identify what situations bring upon such destructive thoughts, we can practice developing new interpretations that will then change our pattern of reaction. The therapy is widely used to help people with phobias, depression, anxieties, or addictions. To show how it works, let's look at Lily, a teenage girl who hates going to school due to her fear of being judged and humiliated. In her first session, the therapist tries to build trust and explains how CBT functions since the better Lily understands the process, the more likely it is that the therapy is effective. The therapist also illustrates how our brain, in specific situations, follows a fixed path of reason — which gets stronger after years of having the same thought process. Many of our destructive behaviors are based on false core beliefs — thoughts that objectively don't make sense. We acquired these false beliefs when we were too young to interpret others correctly. Throughout the therapy, Lily will try to unlearn these false beliefs and create new mental pathways that will replace the false beliefs she holds of herself with more realistic thoughts. Once Lily understands the process, the counselor begins to ask questions following the Socratic method, a form of argumentative conversation that stimulates critical thinking to draw out false ideas and underlying assumptions. “Would you like to tell me why you are here today?” Starts the therapist. “Because I think I’m not normal,” Lily responds. Therapist1: You appear perfectly normal to me, can you be more specific? Lily1: I think I’m afraid of people. Therapist2: So, you are afraid of me? Lily2: No Therapist3: Do you feel socially insecure? Lily3: I’m not sure what you mean. Therapist4: Tell me how you feel about school. Lily4: I’m scared of going because they think I’m stupid. Throughout the interview, the counselor takes notes of Lily’s answers and identifies the signs of social anxiety based on a false core belief – Lily believes she is stupid. For homework, Lily should practice introspection. The goal: to find out which situations trigger her negative thoughts. She gets a learning journal to keep record of all triggers and other observations, such as self-talk or interpretations of particular events and people. During the following week, Lily becomes more aware of her thoughts and the physical reactions they trigger. By paying attention to her feelings, she identifies a specific pattern which occurs every time during math class. The moment her teacher begins to ask questions her heart starts racing and her palms get sweaty – she worries about having to answer the question, about making a mistake, about looking dumb in front of all the others. In her second session, Lily shares her observations and the therapist helps her realize that her cognitive-behavioral patterns are false. First, her math grades are great, so she should feel anything but stupid. Second, she explains that there are always more interpretations to the same thing. What to her may look like her "stupid" face, to others she may just look unhappy about having to answer. The reason she is afraid of what people think is a form of social anxiety — a completely irrational cognitive behavioral response.[5.7] As the sessions continue, the therapist suggests three practical strategies: Through Journaling, Lily records her negative beliefs and reformulates them into positive ones she can replace them with. Constructive Self-talk, helps her to replace a critical voice with a positive one. And she starts exposure exercises, which means Lilly deliberately puts herself in situations where she becomes the center of attention. Along the way, the two set goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-based. SMART goals give her control over how she progresses thus helping her to gain confidence in herself. Over time and with a lot of practise, her brain builds new neural pathways that lead to different, more neutral reactions to the same old triggers. And one day, Lily may even enjoy the thrill of speaking in front of her class. Her interpretation of the situation is more realistic and more aligned with those of the others. CBT was initially developed in 1964 by Aaron Temkin Beck. Beck hypothesised that people's feelings are determined by the way they interpret situations, rather than by the situations per se. About depression he once said: “If our thinking is bogged down by distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning and erroneous interpretations, we become, in truth, blind and deaf”. This and all other Sprouts videos are licensed under creative commons. 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28 Comments
  1. Support children with mental health by schooling the teachers: https://patreon.com/sprouts

  2. Although cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) works somewhat in some situations, it is not good enough to be used on its own because it has small effect sizes, methodological flaws, short-term benefits, and poor generalizability. Instead of keeping up CBT's overblown image, the field needs to focus on personalized, culturally sensitive interventions and careful comparisons with active treatments. In the future, researchers should look into integrated models that fix the problems with CBT while still using its best features in certain situations.

  3. So it's essentially classical conditioning – it doesn't draw on the reasons the thinking patterns formed in the first place

  4. ❤ PLEASE ❤ make this better by REMOVING the background music.
    Do you NOT UNDERSTAND that many people interested in CBT also find bgm VERY distracting then cant take in your message?!

  5. As a person who lives with BPD, it helped me TREMENDOUSLY!

  6. Informative, educational, and interesting. In addition, I like the narrator's voice and animations. Good job!

  7. i was diagnosed GAD and my therapist will create a theraphy plan for me

  8. Great video work n excellent information.

  9. Cock and ball tortue ?

  10. I have all this , the only courage I get is right now I feel safe behind the keyboard ok
    Speaking about my problem, I said I have all this issues yes but in addition when I get you know "nervous " I feel unsecured but if someone disrespect me I lay my wrath on him it's like trigged me out to attack him and believe me it's not good for him ,specially if the one who take me to my deep water is the teacher, because I suffered a lot during my childhood specially from my teachers and I can't regain my control and my confidence till this day ,

  11. I think it’s wonderful that this therapist helped her out bless her heart, and she has a wonderful therapist. I really enjoyed this like to see more.

  12. She felt bad too, because she was criticized and she was being laughed at and bullied and she felt stupid because they probably might even called her that she was picked on and she was put down. I’m sure that had a lot to do with it too.

  13. CBT saved my life, thanks to channels like yours that deliver this information to people like me who otherwise we would not have been able to get, you're saving lives, now those people can be saved as well. God bless you guys. 🎉❤

  14. So many people hesitate to start because of misconceptions, but in reality, it’s such a game-changer for mental well-being. As someone working in the mental health space I've seen how therapy does wonders. We even offer a free first session!

  15. I have bpd and i know how important CBT is … Its hard to live with beliefs thats hinder your life every aspect

  16. such a large imbalance in color, sound, taste spectrum, the large aesthetic imbalance gives me a headache. That's all. Since childhood.

  17. I would love to watch a video on how to get rid of addiction. Btw, thanks for this video.

  18. there is more intepretation for same thing

  19. You make me feel so happy

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