A workbook and skills primar for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Includes information about CBT and a number of psychological exercises drawn from the field of CBT and ACT.
In this lesson, students will learn what mental distortions are, who the key researchers are, and how to overcome these negative thought patterns. Students will take part in discussion, a jigsaw activity, and will practice a technique used to test our thinking.
This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:
"Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common, painful disorder that – by definition – lacks clear physical pathology, and its symptoms are often influenced by psychological factors like intense worry and hypervigilance. In fact, brain-targeted treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) have been effective at reducing IBS symptoms. However, little is known about the impact of the pre-treatment gut microbiome or if CBT influences the gut-microbiome-brain axis. Thus, researchers recently explored those questions in patients undergoing a CBT regimen designed to treat IBS. Patients who would later have a significant reduction in IBS symptoms had a distinct microbiome from patients who did not respond to treatment, and a random forests classifier based on the most prevalent bacterial groups could accurately predict the response to CBT..."
The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.