Week-8-response-1. Recommendations to Overcoming CBT Challenges

Recommendations to Overcoming CBT Challenges
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Recommendations to Overcoming CBT Challenges
In the quest to have a successful cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) session, transference and countertransference present themselves are frequent challenges. It is up to the therapist to become accustomed to these dimensions of CBT to ensure that these meetings are successful. In the case for transference, it is important that the therapist adorns an exceptional level of emotional intelligence or else the client might gain the wrong impression of the entire session resulting in less impressive results. The therapist gets attuned to the patient’s emotional reactions thereby determining their actual inner state (Prasko et al., 2010). For instance, if shyness persists as a problem, then the therapist should consider identifying it as a major theme that should be discussed concretely. In this way, the therapist gains a path in which to ascertain the prevailing thoughts and realize their input towards the apparent behav...