Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • Safety Behaviours

    Uploaded by

    amber roohi
    4 views1 page
    1. Safety behaviors are actions performed to minimize or prevent perceived threats, but actually maintain anxiety by preventing the person from learning the threats are exaggerated. 2. For example, someone with panic disorder who fears a heart attack may walk slowly as a safety behavior, attributing their good health to this rather than realizing the threat was overestimated. 3. Helpful coping differs in that the person interprets their actions, like relaxation, as functional ways to manage feelings rather than things needed to prevent disaster.

    Original Description:

    CBT for anxiety

    Original Title

    SafetyBehaviours

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    1. Safety behaviors are actions performed to minimize or prevent perceived threats, but actually maintain anxiety by preventing the person from learning the threats are exaggerated. 2. For example, someone with panic disorder who fears a heart attack may walk slowly as a safety behavior, attributing their good health to this rather than realizing the threat was overestimated. 3. Helpful coping differs in that the person interprets their actions, like relaxation, as functional ways to manage feelings rather than things needed to prevent disaster.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    4 views1 page

    Safety Behaviours

    Uploaded by

    amber roohi
    1. Safety behaviors are actions performed to minimize or prevent perceived threats, but actually maintain anxiety by preventing the person from learning the threats are exaggerated. 2. For example, someone with panic disorder who fears a heart attack may walk slowly as a safety behavior, attributing their good health to this rather than realizing the threat was overestimated. 3. Helpful coping differs in that the person interprets their actions, like relaxation, as functional ways to manage feelings rather than things needed to prevent disaster.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Flag for inappropriate content
    of 1

    Internal or 1.

    Perceived threat:
    external event exaggerated and/or
    inappropriate

    2. Client’s best attempt to


    4. Fear remains intact: the protect him/herself from
    alarming belief is threat
    unchanged

    3. Strategy gives short-term relief,


    but fails to challenge the anxiety-
    related belief

    Anxiety Maintenance

    Westbrook, Kennerley & Kirk 2007

    Safety Behaviours: are behaviours or activities which we carry out to minimise or prevent
    something bad from happening.

    These responses can prevent us from learning that we overestimate danger, because each “safe”
    experience is attributed to the success of a safety behaviour.

    For example: a man with panic disorder who fears having a heart attack may move around
    slowly in order to remain safe; he may attribute his good health to slow movements rather than
    realise he has a healthy heart.

    Helpful coping behaviours are different. For example:

    A man relaxes his shoulders and slows his breathing in response to feeling tense, and then feels
    calmer.

    If he interprets this as “I’m only feeling better because I did my relaxation routine, and if I hadn’t
    done it, something awful would have happened”, then it’s a safety behaviour – he is unlikely to
    develop confidence that he could manage tension.

    If he concluded “If I’m tense, I relax”, then relaxing is simply a functional coping behaviour, and
    he is likely to grow confident that he can cope.

    www.getselfhelp.co.uk www.get.gg

    You might also like