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Wow. I’ve received quite a few new readers recently. That’s wonderful. Welcome!

For those of you who just arrived here’s a quick index of all the posts in my recent series of articles on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy basics:

• I. What is CBT? - An explanation of what Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is.
• II. An Overview of Cognitive Distortions - An introduction to, and a list of, the ten cognitive distortions:
  • All or Nothing
  • Over-generalizing
  • Mental Filter
  • Disqualifying the Positive
  • Jumping to Conclusions
  • Magnification (or Catastrophizing)
  • Emotional Reasoning
  • Should Statements
  • Labeling
  • Personalization

The next articles in the series looked at each distortion and provided examples.

• III. Distortion One - All Or Nothing Thinking
• IV. Distortion Two - Over-generalizing
• V. Distortion Three - Mental Filter
• VI. Disqualifying the Positive
• VII. Jumping to Conclusions
• VIII. All Remaining Five Distortions! - In the interest of moving the series along at a reasonable pace, I bundled all five remaining distortions into one post: Magnification, Emotional Reasoning, Should Statements, Labeling, and Personalization.

Finally, as the ninth and last post of the basics series, I posted: IX. The Triple Column Technique, which teaches the fundamental technique for combatting cognitive distortions and the negative emotions they create.

Though the “basics” series is complete, there will be plenty more discussion of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the near future.

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