Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Case Study

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy was chosen because it has been proven to treat ADHD, anxiety and well as depression in adolescents. For ADHD, CBT is aimed at improving behavior through praise and rewards. Through the learning and practicing of new skills, the child may become “fluent” or at least gain some level of proficiency in coping (Shute, 2010). This was absolutely the case for V, he has yet to reach fluency, but he has taken to journaling, so as to remind himself of times when he has used his coping mechanisms successfully over the course of our sessions. He has even taken to adapting CBT work sheets for medication compliance to create his own that works for him, hence his strength with technology which both he and his aunt spoke too when …show more content…
With some Socratic Questioning V’s therapist and I were able to V see his line of thinking for what it really was, negative and of no use to him. When V would say he was not smart, the primary therapist would talk about the good grades that he told us about and ask things like, “Well, wasn’t that a good grade. Did you not finish that book in a day and complete a highly marked report on it?” Questions to which he had to change his mode of thinking to resolve his feelings, which he did often and anytime he resorts to such negative though spirals, we return to as it seems to work well with him. By changing the way in which he thinks about himself, we hoped we could change the way he felt about himself and life, in general. First we identify, we challenge what we’ve identified and then replace these toxic thoughts with more realistic much less harmful thoughts (Segal, Segal & Smith, 2015). For depression, CBT’s focus on overall maladaptive behavior, cognition and affect have made it a more than viable option (Clabby, 2006). A similar line of questioning to Socratic Questioning, this time for the sake of guided discovery, was used to uncover V’s

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