Description
Feeling Great Therapy
TEAM-CBT is a framework for doing therapy developed by Dr. David Burns.
T is for Testing
You will fill out a Brief Mood Survey at the beginning and at the end of each therapy session. It will give you a score for depression, anxiety, anger, relationship satisfaction, and positive emotions.
At the end of the session, you will evaluate the therapy session. This shows me what you liked and didn’t like about the session.
This will give us information on how the therapy is progressing and what is (or is not) working.
E is for Empathy
Several studies have found positive correlations between therapeutic empathy and recovery.
So, we’ll spend as much time as you need to share your story. We won’t move on to using methods until you are sure that I understand you 100%. Until you give me an “A” on empathy!
You will be the one who decides when you are ready to “roll up the sleeves and start working” on the problem.
A is for Assessing the Resistance
Think about feeling anxious when your baby is sick. You might call your family doctor or 811 to make sure you are doing everything right; check on your baby often; or reach out to family and friends. Anxiety is helping you to gather your resources.
However, the same anxiety doesn’t let you relax and keeps you up all night, so you’re exhausted by the morning. So, there’s positive and negative side to the negative feelings. And that creates ambivalence about the change either consciously or unconsciously.
In addition, you’ll need to do hard things before you start feeling better. Like confronting difficult situations or getting more active even when you don’t feel like it.
This is what assessing the resistance means – you start therapy knowing what you’ll need to do and what might keep you from succeeding. Talking about it openly, will make sure that we are able to overcome these roadblocks.
M is for Methods
There are more than 100 concrete methods to use. We need to have as many tools as possible, so that if one method doesn’t work, we move on and try next one and next one.
The motto is “fail as fast as you can”, so you can quickly find the right tool that works.
TEAM-CBT will help you FEEL GREAT!
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