
Build a case against your life trap by disputing its truth and crafting new internal maps of reality through cognitive disputation and REBT concepts.
Detect and change irrational beliefs using the ABC model of cognitive therapy—activating event, belief, and consequence—through disputation and the development of new emotional and behavioral responses.
Trace the activating event to its consequences by uncovering the underlying beliefs, then use disputation to challenge irrational beliefs and replace them with rational ones, while tracking changes with diaries.
Apply disputation to challenge irrational beliefs within the ABC model using functional, empirical, logical, and Socratic techniques, with examples and a toolbox for live traps.
Explore practical disputation techniques from schema therapy basics of CBT, guiding you through functional, empirical, and logical disputation using Socratic questioning.
Learn six disputation styles, including functional disputation, empirical disputation, logic, socratic style, and devil's advocate, plus two additional approaches to challenge irrational beliefs.
Apply humor disputation to challenge the life trap of failure and unrelenting standards in schema therapy, using exaggerated examples to reframe defectiveness and related beliefs.
Transform irrational beliefs into a consistent rational system by disputation, gathering arguments for the new belief, and applying Bruce Lee's three-step method to own the new mindset.
Demonstrates building and applying an algorithm of maladaptive schemas to a client, illustrating entitlement traps and narcissistic tendencies rooted in overindulgent upbringing, with practical cognitive therapy exercises.
learn to recognize coping mechanisms in schema therapy: surrender, flight and avoidance, and overcompensation (fight) to gauge behavioral change and build awareness.
This practical lesson introduces basic coping mechanisms: surrender, avoid, and overcompensate, linking behavior, emotions, and cognition in schema therapy. It helps you recognize triggers, patterns, and boundaries for assertive change.
Explore next steps in schema therapy as part of CBT basics and continue your journey into this integrative psychotherapy, with recommendations to pursue additional schema therapy courses and online training.
Basic Cognitive techniques in Schema therapy-Basics of CBT
Change the way you think and behave with Cognitive psychotherapy modalities-REBT, CBT and Schema therapy
It is for everyone interested in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT) and Schema therapy. Here is what you will learn in this course:
Learn and practice general procedure to change your belief system
Basics of ABC model and its basic application
Different ways of disputation irrational beliefs
Different ways of strengthening rational beliefs
Worksheet exercise that will help you change your dysfunctional coping mechanisms and achieve change on behavioral level
Course comes with one downloadable e-book (check out in resources of first lecture) and one worksheet in resources on lecture number 10.
This course is made for the purpose of giving you basic understanding of mechanisms of change of your internal beliefs and dysfunctional behavior. If you do not apply exercises presented in this free course you will just catch some theoretical "good to know how it works" kind of knowledge, but if you actually apply the exercises and processes of identifying and changing irrational beliefs, find framework for your rational beliefs and apply also worksheet for coping mechanism change, you will already gain a lot and it will help you in your self-improvement and self-reflective process.