4: The worst ones to me are like “I’ve heard CBT is about challenging your thoughts so if all your thoughts are accurate it won’t work for you which is why you need my therapy!”
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Hahahahaha that’s amazing. I was a trauma service provider for about a decade, so I’ve heard a lot of inaccurate takes on trauma tx (incl. CBT) but that’s a new one! … talk about preying on unawareness…
So it may not be a CBT-specific thing but about trauma in general. I wonder if it’s that so few people do effective therapy for trauma so patients are left really wanting more help
It’s absolutely a trauma thing, or at least a well-known phenomenon in that area. Comes from the long-term failure to recognize/study approaches for complex trauma.
In most settings outside private practice, we get folks who have chronic (sometimes systemic) ongoing exposure to adversity, but our tx evidence is based on a much more well-off population. It sets up most everyone to fail, and starts off this process.
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