What are the cognitive-behavioral types of intervention?
Friday, September 11th, 2009
There are several new cognitive-behavioral types of intervention. They are not quite as dramatic and drastic as the original sort of Johnson formulation now available. One is called the Arise method, one is called the Kraft method. These are acronyms, and you could probably look them up on the internet and find out further information. They approach it from a very different standpoint. It’s not all about them being diseased, or about them being bad, but rather approaching them from a much more gentle, softer approach where there’s much more cooperation. For example, in the Kraft method, between the husband and wife, there’s more focus on getting a job and using a certain sort of pharmacological intervention. It’s not all about running off and getting fixed in that place called rehab only to return to the same place. It’s a much more integrative approach. There may be certain communities and community hospitals that have a very distinct method that fosters more communication that comes from a really loving position where they want the relationship to continue.For more information visit http://aaalternatives.com
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Oh, absolutely not, no, a cognitive therapist will bring to bare their tools, their expertises, but appropriately to the stage of change if they’re remanded to because of legal complications to a rehab or something like that. We would start with, you know, just exploring is there a problem? Or do you see there being a problem? We wouldn’t start, though by saying we gonna start changing your thoughts. We just gonna start with where you at or how you see the problem and as they emerge out of it or not emerge out of it, we’ll adjust the innovations to fit their real motivation not the motivation of the person that put them in the treatment center. For more information go to http://aaalternatives.com
First of all, it’s a distinct discipline. It is based on the umption that thinking leads to feelings that leads to behavior. It’s sort of like a triangle. And that if you change one’s thinking about something, you can change the way they feel about it. You can change the way feel about it, you can change the way they act upon it. An addiction is just a thinking method or a belief method. Certain beliefs lead to feelings that lead to behaviors, and they are often irrational, illogical, excessive, exaggerated beliefs. A cognitive behavioral therapist will focus primarily on the thinking component, will intervene first, talk about the thinking that leads to these feelings or behaviors. For more information go to http://www.aaalternatives.com
People call addictions habits because, unlike the disease model, they see addiction as an evolutionary process. It is like, you know, brushing your teeth in the morning. They just kind of do it; they don’t really think about it. They get dressed, they wash their face; it’s sort of automatic. It doesn’t appear from the inside that there is an organic or biological process going on, but rather it comes through repetition and practice that they engage in this particular behavior. Another part of why people see addictions as a habit is because it has the same sort of muscle memory of other habits. There’s also powerlessness. A powerlessness is central to the disease model, ‘twelve-step’, and to call it a disease is to call myself powerless. I’m doomed and destined. So, there’s often a complete resistance of people to own such a powerless position and they actually want to feel empowered, and calling it a habit puts their mind at ease. It eases their mind to think that there is something they can do and something they can think about; that they can intervene, that they are not victims and they can change without it being some sort of organically fixed phenomenon that they were born with. For more information go to http://aaalternatives.com