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Self management approach 4
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Introduction 0
General Introduction to role of Psychology in Diabetes management - How individual factors like personality, health behaviors and attitudes affect diabetes management. Brief discussion about the course.
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Session 1 : Introduction to CBT model 0
What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy? How will CBT help managing health issues?
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Session 2 : Identification of thoughts 0
Learning to identify automatic negative thoughts and challenging them through a scientific structured method.
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Session 3: Challenging thoughts and relaxation 0
Completing the next part of thought record and learning cognitive relaxation technique. Generalization of learnt techniques to other issues and problems.
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Session 2: Identifying thoughts
RELAXATION:
All thoughts are made up of images, sounds and feelings. Once we become aware of how we formulate our thoughts, we gain the ability to change them, therefore changing feelings and behaviors. People understand the world around them through use of language and pictures. When a bad things happens to them, instead of being glad it’s over, they go through it again and again in their heads, so that their present is destroyed by their past.so we have to reprogram our brain.
Think, for example, of the time when you overate sweets. Imagine the emotion that you are experience to be a person. How would this person look? Notice the size, qualities of the person, where it is located, what is the colour of the image or if the image is in black and white.
Now take this image and make it black and white (if it is in colour), reduce the size of the image. Now make it as small as possible. Using the swish method, grab the image and throw it to the side.
The most incredible quality of our mind is to alter mental images. Once the images are altered, the experience and the corresponding experiences also change. Distance and colour affect emotions. IF good emotions are made more colourful and placed closer, the experience of happiness would increase.
Create an image of yourself that you would want to be. Create a vivid image with all the characteristics that you wish to have. Now imagine this version of you standing in a square. This square should be made of a colour that represents positivity to you. See yourself standing in that square as you are most confident, looking strong and feeling sure about yourself, feeling healthy and happy. Notice the expression on your face, your body posture, your breathing, the light in your eyes and the glow of your body.