CBT - Mindfulness-based cognitive theory

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Introduction:
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is very helpful for an individual to better organize and
understand their feelings and emotions. The therapy is combined with the cognitive
behavioural techniques and some strategies which help the individual to attain relief from
distress. Cognitive behavioural therapy is very effective in order to manage troubles and
changing the prospective towards your thoughts. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and
Mindfulness are two most advanced methods for facts based psychotherapy. The both techniques
together are very effective in controlling anxiety.
Criteria for diagnosis disparity, evaluation process, and the incidence and pervasiveness of
anxiety disorder are being examined in this manuscript. This paper also shows that how effective
is combining the cognitive behavioural therapy with mindfulness in achieving stability in
thoughts and behaviour. This discussion lays emphasis on the counselling processes, how and
what different it can make in the individual. It has also been very effectively used to execute
control on the feeling of depression and anxiety among the individuals.
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
The Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy was firstly introduced by the Segal Williams and
Teasdale in year 2002 for the patients to recover themselves from depression. Their treatment is
based on the efficiency of MBSR in mental and substantial problems and this therapy
combination of the different parts of Beck’s cognitive therapy for depression with some element
of Kabat-Zinn’s program for the MBSR. Kabat-Zinn was first to report about the MBSR

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program’s relevance to anxiety disorder. Anxiety is a fear that is unwarned, it is fear that is very
excessive which affect the individual’s overall performance. There are six different types of
anxiety disorders which have common features like emotional understanding and cognitive and
working on information.
The most common psychiatric problem is Anxiety disorders which are affecting both adults and
children. It increases the depressive thoughts among different individuals so that they start to feel
very stressed and unable to perform, useless fear is second most important factor behind the
anxiety disorder where a person starts to fear and stop doing work.
About 40 million of the adults from America are suffering from anxiety disorders which seem to
have treatment. (GAD) Generalized Anxiety Disorder affects the 6.8 million populations of
adults is U.S. or it can be said that 3.1% population of the United States in each year (Myerson,
2017). Women are affected twice, which is double than the affected population of male adults.
Though only one-third population, which is suffering from this disorder gets treatment. Anxiety
Disorder can arise any time steadily and it can stay until the life cycle, childhood and middle age
population have the highest risk of being affected by the AD. The correct reason of GAD is not
known, biological factors, family backdrop, and life experiences, mainly those who are under
stress, seem to be the evidence of the cause of AD.
Anxiety disorders happen more commonly in patients who are suffering from chronic medical
disorders. Hypertension, chronic disruptive pulmonary disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and
diabetes are some examples. The individuals suffering from anxiety disorders are more likely
build up sickness and can have higher mortality rates from with all these causes. Moreover,
ongoing epigenetic can be caused by chronic stress. The gene linked to depression and bipolar
disorder is caused by the stress hormones which are produced GAD. Long contact to stress

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hormone changes DNA of an individual, which can be seen in mood disorders. A mouse was
given a stress hormone by researchers and observed it results in an anxiety and change in gene
appearance that led to mood disorders. It was observed that there was a change in the hormonal
behaviour and increased in AD.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Our feelings and behaviour are due to our interpretation of different situations in our day to day
life. Pre consciousness or automatic judgment, conscious thoughts, and metacognitive are the 3
levels of thinking in an individual. The survival instincts are the base for the automatic thinking
process or level, which is just out of our knowledge. This is also due to offensive character and is
hard to modify. As a result of such beliefs they are embedded very deeply in our personality,
should learn intermediate thoughts in early life. This is usually regular, for an instance, if a
people believe that they are dumb if they do not obtain grades. Normal thinking is awake level,
and meta cognition is thoughts and beliefs about our thinking process. Automatic thoughts are
very rapid, thoughts of evaluation are our consciousness and this fast response results in much
difficult to be familiar with them. We are more aware of the emotion they cause rather than the
thought that which makes those thoughts. Self-worth and tend are something which is used to
learn how to accomplish it in ones early life to repeat this same in adulthood . The anxiety is just
the result of an attempt which is to attain worth but fear of failing to achieve it.
The aim of CBT is to recognize and alter ill beliefs to more productive thoughts. Generally, this
therapy aims toward changing automatic thinking, if time is still left, the core beliefs are
monitored. Clients can learn to manage their thoughts by instructing them how to met cognition.

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Questioning them, downward arrow, recording their thoughts and behavioural experiments are
the most commonly used technique. Using Socratic questioning, the therapist realizes the clients
illogic, which is the root of their faulty belief. Considering an example, a most favourite question
is asked that where the proof for this thinking is downward arrow is used to attach shallow
thoughts that are closely linked to interior thinking. Clients are asked that what that surface
thought, which means about the client, it will generally lead to the core belief thought the
recording is a assignments which is exercised by the clients to record their automatic thoughts
and affecting response. This helps to see what patterns are to be changed for this process.
Recording thoughts generally increase the self awareness about negative thinking of the clients.
CBT is very effective and most accepted treatment for different typed of mental disorders and is
measured by a very proficient tool for alleviating pessimistic emotions. So, it is very useful to
treat clients in case anxiety disorders. CBT is considered to be very effective for GAD and may
other nervousness disorders. Researchers have found descriptive benefits for CBT than placebo
and particularly for strict and serious anxiety symptoms.
CBT helps the patients in detaching and recognising from the meditative, pessimistic thoughts
with moving from the spotlight on content to the procedure. This is the focus is quite a variant
form the fundamental cognitive therapy's centre of attention and is to change the content thought
in spite of experiencing the methods of processing. Change in the negative thoughts and to watch
them as the momentary moments of mind, individuals realise that such events are not the
important facts.
Mindfulness is when shared with cognitive techniques; patients increase their consciousness of
encountering probable changes in the mood. As an exemplar, in the attentive acceptance state, a
negative thought can be anticipated and helps in reminding the truth. Instead of previous