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This 3 page paper discusses how a cognitive behavioral therapist can influence the cognitive content of counseling sessions, whether or not they intend to do so. An example is provided. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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adhering to cognitive behavior theories believe their role is to discover what the client wants out of live, what their goals are, and they then help the client achieve the
goals (NACBT, 2005). Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is viewed as a collaborative effort, in other words, however, the role of the counselor/therapist "is to listen, teach, and encourage" (NACBT, 2005).
The counselor is not supposed to have any "pre-conceived ideas about where the therapy is going" (Grazebrook and Garland, 2005). The focus is here and now (Grazebrook and Garland,
2005). Given these brief comments about cognitive behavior therapy, we conclude that it is the client who would really set the topics of discussion, the cognitive content for the counseling
sessions. This may be a goal of this model but in any model where the counselor is an active participant, where there the objective is a collaborative relationship, the counselor
can easily and dramatically influence the topical direction of the process. Influencing the cognitive content is not necessarily a conscious act, in fact, if one is a CBT counselor,
he or she would attempt to avoid setting the direction of sessions. Nonetheless, the counselor sets the direction simply by attending to specific statements from the client. Consider this
scenario: a 28-year old man arrives at his counseling session. The first session is the interview during which time, the man explains he is having heart palpitations, he gets dizzy
a lot and he has trouble breathing. At this point, the counselor can inquire into different aspects of the symptoms and has immediately influenced the subsequent discussion for this session.
For instance, the counselor might ask how severe the symptoms are or if the man has seen his physician about the symptoms; or, the counselor might ask the man to
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