Understanding cognitive behavioural coaching
By Gladeana McMahon (January 2007 Issue)
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In the 1960s, US psychiatrist Aaron Beck observed that his patients engaged in ‘internal dialogue’ with themselves. From this, he realised there was a connection between thoughts and feelings, and he created the term ‘automatic thoughts’ to describe these emotion-filled thoughts.
Individuals weren’t always conscious of these automatic thoughts, but they could learn to identify them. If a person felt upset in some way, their thoughts were usually negative, and, if they were helped to identify these thoughts, they were able to understand and overcome them.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) was consequently born and has since become one of the most widely researched and recommended therapies. Through the process of identifying and re-evaluating self-defeating thoughts, an individual is persuaded to engage in more effective and alternative ways of thinking and behaving. CBT strategies and techniques form the basis of what has now become known as Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC).
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