Cognitive Restructuring

Techniques:

• Challenging dysfunctional belief (Beck, 1995)
• Jumping Ahead (Beck, 1995)
• Image/Thought Stopping (Beck, 1995)
• Distancing (Beck, 1995)
• Behavioral Experimenting (Beck, 1995)
• Graded Exposure (Beck, 1995)
• Reframing (Beck, 1995)
• Behavioral Experiments (Beck, 1995)
• Creating a Cognitive Continuum (Beck, 1995)
• Rational-Emotional Role Play (Beck, 1995)
• Using Self-Disclosure to Modify Beliefs (Beck, 1995)
• Acting "as-if" (Beck, 1995)
• Distinguishing thought from fact (Beck, 1995)
• Using other people's beliefs as a reference point (Beck, 1995)
• Degree of emotion and Degree of belief (Beck, 1995)
• Belief Variations (Beck, 1995)
• Cost-Benefit Analysis (Beck, 1995)
• Defense/Prosecution (Beck, 1995)
• Identification of maladaptive schema (Beck, 1995; Young,)
• Differentiation of affect-anxiety-defense (Davanloo, 1980)
• Identifying the internal voice (Firestone, 1997).
• Restraining (Fraser & Solovey, 2007)
• Normalizing and Acceptance (Fraser & Solovey, 2007)
• Framing, reframing, and deframing (Fraser & Solovey, 2007)
• Prescribing (Fraser & Solovey, 2007)
• Predicting (Fraser & Solovey, 2007)
• It's Not My Fault (INMF) story-telling (James, 1996)
• It's Not My Fault (INMF) puppet play (James, 1996)
• It's Not My Fault (INMF) picture painting with story (James, 1996)
• Construction of narrative through metaphor (James, 1996)
• Making a friend of the scar (bald head, wheelchair, etc.) (James, 1996)
• List of Bad, Mean, Rotten Things That Can Happen to Kids (James, 1996)
• The Elderly Child Remembers (James, 1996*Accessing wise mind Linehan, 1993
• Devil's Advocate (Linehan, 1993)
• Entering the paradox (Linehan, 1993)
• Extending (Linehan, 1993)
• Use of Metaphor (Linehan, 1993)
• Irreverant Communication (Linehan, 1993)
• Maintain a Dialectical Stance (Linehan, 1993)
• Epitaphs (Neimeyer, 1999)
• Externalize the Problem (Payne, 2000; White & Epston, 1990; Wolter et al., 2006
• Bibliotherapy (Shrodes, 1949)
• Mapping the Influence of the Problem on the Life of the Person (Wolter et al., 2006)
• Schema Activation (Young, 2002)
• Schema Dialogue (Young, 2002)