Cognitive Restructuring is an action-focused process of helping clients challenge their irrational thinking patterns and explore a more rational or balanced way of thinking. After treatment, recovering persons face a critical period when typical temptations, triggers, and cognitive challenges will occur. If clients successfully identify and deal with these challenges in a logical manner, they will be able to better self-manage and maintain stability.
Relapse, or any other compulsive behavior, begins in the brain. Believe it or not, when we talk to ourselves, the brain listens. Right Thinking in Recovery will explore rational vs. irrational thinking through Cognitive Restructuring as well as the self-empowering tool of Self-Talk Analysis. Clients learn to identify their own self-sabotaging thought processes using Self-Talk Analysis and vital keys to turn their thinking around into useful and productive thought patterns.
This course will also cover the issue of anger and how it can spring from distorted thinking and cause relapse.
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