Episode 32: What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and How Can it Help ADHD?
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In this episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, tracy talks about the basics of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT); what is it, who is it for, how does it work with ADHD.
Learn how:
CBT incorporates cognition(what we’re thinking), behaviors (what we do) and emotions.
CBT does not treat ADHD, but works to lessen how it impairs your life through symptoms like procrastination, time management, disorganization
CBT educates ADHDers about their brain and why it is the way it is
CBT, helps to
build workarounds
manage negative expectations and emotions
discover negative behaviors that interfere with your ability to live to your potential.
CBT can look different for each patient because it’s set up to their individual needs
Learn where CBT came from and how what you’re saying to yourself can really affect your life: what jobs you’ll apply for, what relationships you’ll enter into, what risks you’re willing to take.
Discover how the experience of growing up with ADHD, especially undiagnosed ADHD, can impact how you think, what you think about yourself, how you cope, your attitudes and your beliefs.
Learn how the lens that you see the world through definitely affects who we become.
Discover how what you’re thinking can impact your life. And that:
Your thoughts create your feelings/emotions
Your feelings create your actions
Your actions create your results.
Everything starts with your thoughts.
How our thoughts are responsible for our emotions.
Tracy states: “Don’t believe everything you think.” It doesn’t matter if you had that negative thought a million times. It’s not going to affect you now unless you think it again. You don’t have to undo those thoughts, you just have to break the pattern of the thought.
Tracy shares that CBT looks for where your thoughts are distorted and it has you question them.
In CBT, you’re also learning how to use specific strategies for managing your ADHD like getting to work on time, starting a project you don’t want to do, sticking to your planner, building better relationships.
Discover what you should do when you can’t start a project or task.
Also learn CBT strategies around
Prioritization
Self-regulatation
Time management
Managing emotions
Managing behavior
Procrastination
Discover how CBT compares to medication and what kind of Cognitive Behavioral therapist you should hire.
CBT is supported by clinical results and research evidence showing that the therapy delivers real-world benefits for adults with ADHD - namely higher self-esteem, productivity, and happiness. Learn more about 'cognitive distortions' and how to unravel them with cognitive behavioral therapy.
This highly practical book provides evidence-based strategies for helping adults with ADHD build essential skills for time management, organization, planning, and coping. Each of the 12 group sessions--which can also be adapted for individual therapy--is reviewed in step-by-step detail. Handy fea...
Amazon.com: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD: An Integrative Psychosocial and Medical Approach: 9780415815918: Ramsay, J. Russell, Rostain, Anthony L.: Books
About Tracy
Host Tracy Otsuka is a lawyer, not a doctor, a life-long student, not a coach. She’s also the creator of Coretography a patent pending system that helps smart, driven women understand their own unique ADHD brain and use it to their advantage.
Tracy will be talking about ADHD. Your super powers, your symptoms, your solutions and work-arounds and how you proudly stand out. Tracy credits ADHD for some of her superpowers and much of her success in life.
