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    The cognitive approach examines and assists people with distorted or irrational thinking that can cause negative emotions like anxiety or depression. The approach aims to help clients change their perceptions and feelings through evidence-based challenges to their beliefs. This is intended to help clients take more effective actions. While changing beliefs is important, it may not be enough on its own and behaviorist techniques could also be used to develop intrinsic reinforcement for new behaviors. The cognitive approach assumes thoughts are often inappropriate, but caution is needed to address any real issues causing negative experiences and not just view them as irrational.

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    The cognitive approach examines and assists people with distorted or irrational thinking that can cause negative emotions like anxiety or depression. The approach aims to help clients change their perceptions and feelings through evidence-based challenges to their beliefs. This is intended to help clients take more effective actions. While changing beliefs is important, it may not be enough on its own and behaviorist techniques could also be used to develop intrinsic reinforcement for new behaviors. The cognitive approach assumes thoughts are often inappropriate, but caution is needed to address any real issues causing negative experiences and not just view them as irrational.

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    Cognitive Approach within Coaching

    Advanced Diploma in Leadership and Performance Coaching

    Introduction If you only see shadows then how do you know


    The cognitive approach is often used to examine and what is truly there?
    assist people who may present distorted or irrational
    thinking. This can be to significant or lesser degrees
    “Unchain (yourself) and see outside the cave.”
    and may sometimes appear as anxiety or depression
    but will often involve negative emotions.
    Understanding the issues but finding it
    difficult to change behaviour
    Purpose The cognitive approach is intended to help the client to change
    The purpose of this paper is to explore further their own perceptions and feelings in order that they take
    understanding of this approach but to also critique the alternative (and more effective) actions.

    approach in the context of different coaching Once an issue has been identified the coach will build evidence to
    challenge the clients present beliefs.
    scenarios.
    Achieving a change n client beliefs is not in itself an assurance that
    the client will indeed begin to act differently. In some cases it may
    Explanation of the approach be necessary to include behaviourist approach. A cognitive
    Albert Ellis approach could be assisted by perhaps encouraging the
    Negative emotions arise form people’s irrational interpretations of development of intrinsic reinforcement to develop behaviour
    experiences. For example through:- patterns, but based on beliefs and inner feelings.
    - irrational belief that you must do or have some thing This approach may, in such cases, take some considerable time.
    - mental exaggeration of setbacks From identifying triggers, to achieving changes to effective actions.
    Aaron T Beck
    Depressed people distort experiences such as Filtering, Polarizing, Thinking outside of the mental box In my own context
    Over generalisation, Personalisation and blaming.
    Can be effective when the coach identifies a blockage in the clients I appreciate the value of supporting a client to recognise the
    Other Key principles
    thinking, they are unable to clearly see alternative perspectives. drivers for some of their less effective actions. I believe that in
    Prime focus is upon negative thoughts. I.e. when a client who can only see their misgivings rather than allowing more of the organisations managers to afford themselves
    Use of Socratic questioning to illicit client experiences and thinking the positive benefit they bring. this time to reflect then this could lead to more effective behaviour.
    ‘Scaffolding’ & ‘platforming’ questions to build upon clients limited However, I would be concerned that they would see some of the
    view and expose ‘new’ elements to the coaching arena. Note of caution drivers for their behaviour as being from within and across the
    This assumes that the clients negative thoughts are in the main organisation as a whole. This may be looked at sceptically from
    Aim to replace maladaptive thinking with Adaptive
    inappropriate. If a client is struggling to engage with their boss and the point of view of ‘what can one person do?’ in the short term.
    regularly experiences negativity towards their work, it may help My view would be that this approach would be used in composite
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    with their coping process to allow them to think more positively with other approaches and with many managers as we are indeed
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    Themselves References: James, I.A., Morse, R. & Howart, A. (2010) ‘The Science and Art of Asking Questions in Cognitive Therapy’, Behavioural and Cognitive
    Psychotherapy, 38, 83–93. Leahy, R.L. (1996). Available at: http://www.352express.com/wpm/files/40/Cognitive%20Therapy-%20Basic%20Principles%20and
    %20Applications.pdf (accessed: 1 June 2010). Plato’s Cave

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