Common techniques of Baker's cognitive therapy include:
1. Identifying negative automatic thoughts is mainly done by patients, who are required to write down their thoughts immediately after encountering something and summarize the negative thoughts that often appear. Such as "I'm really useless", "I let my parents down again", "I'm ashamed to do such a thing well" and "I can never do it well" and so on. These negative thoughts seem real, but they can't stand the test of logic.
2. Identify cognitive errors In order to identify cognitive errors, therapists should listen to and write down the automation ideas and different situations and problems told by the parties, and then let the parties sum up the general rules and find out their * * *. With the ability to analyze and identify their wrong cognition and schema, patients will gradually realize the relationship between situation, automatic thinking and emotional response, and with the help of therapists, try to replace the original bad cognition and schema with new knowledge.
3. Reality test After discovering the cognitive misinterpretation of patients, therapists and patients check and debate whether these predictions, inferences and assumptions are logical, practical and reasonable, and encourage patients to investigate their own beliefs to verify their correctness. After the authenticity test, the parties may find that their negative cognition and beliefs are unrealistic most of the time, thus shaking the original beliefs.