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Think CBT Conditions Specific Formulations
Think CBT Conditions Specific Formulations
Symptoms
Reactions
Assumptions
With increased vulnerability to
Trigger
Frightening object or situation
Anxious Cognitions
(thoughts and images concerning stimulus)
Social Situation
Activates assumptions
a
Perceived social danger
(negative automatic thoughts)
Catastrophic thoughts
F “Oh, oh, oh..”
“I’m gonna die, pass
Increase in anxiety
Increase in symptoms
E out”
“Fall down, going crazy”
A
R Conduct
Running away, escaping
Hyper surveillance
Avoidance
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Anticipatory Anxiety
A cognitive model of OCD
(Wells 1997, p.242)
Trigger
Activates
Meta-Beliefs
Appraisal of
Intrusion
Belief about
rituals
Behavioural
Emotion
Response
Misinterpretation of
significance of intrusions –
responsibility for actions
Thoughts
Behaviours Emotions
Physical
Core Belief(s)
Conditional Assumptions/Beliefs/Rules
Compensatory Strategies
Critical Incident
Activates Schemas
“The problem”
Activates
Early Experiences
Critical Incident
Assumptions Activated
Symptoms of Depression
Increased Depressed
hopelessness Mood
Reduced
Activity
Nothing
Changes
Reduced
coping &
problem-
solving
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Anxiety Maintenance
(Westbrook, Kennerley & Kirk, 2007)
1. Perceived threat:
Internal or
Exaggerated and/or
external event
inappropriate
1. Automatic
Negative thinking
2. Ruminations
3. Motivation and self-
and Physical attacking
symptoms Depression
Mode
Negative view
of self, world
and future
4. Unhelpful 5. Mood /
behaviours emotion
6. Withdrawal
and avoidance
Mirror-checking and
selective attention
Avoidance and
Rumination on
safety
Mood ugliness or
behaviours to
(depression & “defectiveness”
change or
disgust) and comparison
camouflage
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What made me vulnerable in the first place
Current Problem
Formative influences
Situation / interpersonal
issues
Strengths / assets
Underlying schemas
Anxiety
Worry Images
Processes
Threat
Physical
Appraisal Memories
Sensations
Meaning
Safety Selective
Behaviours Attention
Events,
Stimuli,
Situations
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Clark’s cognitive model of panic with maintenance
cycles added (adapted from Clark, 1986)
INTERNAL / EXTERAL TRIGGER
PERCIEVED THREAT
ANXIETY
(Emotions)
Positive meta-beliefs
activated (Strategy
Selection)
Type 1 Worry
Type 2 Worry
Behaviour Emotion
(Meta-worry)
Thought control
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Cognitive-behavioural model of generalized anxiety disorder
[From Dugas, M.J., Gagnon, F., Ladoucer, R. & Freeston, M.H. (1998) Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A
preliminary test of a conceptual model. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36, 215-226]
Situation
What if..?
Positive beliefs
Mood about worry Life
State Events
Worry
Negative
Cognitive
problem Anxiety
avoidance
orientation
Demoralization
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Low Self-Esteem: A Map of the territory
(Fennell, 1999)
(Early) Experience
Events, relationships, living conditions which have implications for ideas about the self
Trigger Situations
Situations in which the Rules for Living are, or may be, broken
esteem Going
Negative
Predictions
Anxiety
Social Situation
1. What went through your mind at that time? What was the
worst you thought could happen? What did you think
people would notice / think about you? What would that
mean/ what would be so bad about that?
Thoughts
Negative Appraisal of
Nature of Trauma Memory
Trauma and / or its Sequleae
P
Matching E
Triggers R
S
I
S
Current Threat T
Intrusions E
N
Arousal Symptoms T
Strong Emotions
P
T
S
Strategies Intended to Control Threat / Symptoms D
Images
Emotion
Memories
Physical
Sensations Safety Seeking
Behaviours
Events, stimuli, situations
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‘Vicious Flower’ model
(Salkovskis, Warwick & Deale)
Rumination; thinking
over past events Focus on self & how
(what went wrong) People think I am
I appear. Ignore any
and rehearsing weird; I will end up friendly remarks from
future ones (what to rejected and alone others (‘just being kind’)
say, etc)
6. Motivation
and physical 2. Ruminations &
symptoms self attacking
Depression
Mode
Negative view
of self, world
& future
5. Unhelpful 3. Mood/emotion
behaviours
4. Withdrawal
and avoidance
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Longitudinal Formulation
Depression:
Early experience
Core beliefs/assumptions
Critical Incident(s)
Break up of relationship
Anxiety Symptoms
Behavioural Responses
Cognitive Biases