Focus
- 13.1: Assessments
- 13.2: Staff engagement and retention
- 13.3: Health and wellbeing
- 13.4: Nutrition
- 13.5: Stress management and prevention
- 13.6: Resilience training and assessment
- 13.14: Creating a positive work culture
Challenges
- 20.1: Performance management
- 20.2: Negativity, conflict and stress
- 20.3: Sickness absence in the workplace
- 20.4: Staff turnover
- 20.5: Workplace bullying
- 20.6: Mergers and acquisitions
- 20.7: Recruitment and retention
- 20.8: Downsizing and redundancy
Solutions
- 21.4: Expert advice
- 21.5: Cultural change management
- 21.6: Leadership and manager behaviour
- 21.7: Team building
- 21.8: Training and development
- 21.9: Coaching and mentoring
- 21.10: Assessments and surveys
- 21.11: Therapy and motivation
- 21.12: Research and analysis
- 21.13: Executives retreat
- 21.14: Conflict resolution service
- 21.15: The Stress Advisory Service
- 21.16: Code for health and wellbeing
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Therapy and Motivation
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy ( CBT )
Cognitive behavioural therapy ( CBT ) is a short-term psychological treatment. Cognitive behavioural therapy helps to change the way you think, feel and behave. CBT is particularly suitable for specific problems such as phobias, panic attacks, eating disorders and depression.
Cognitive behavioural therapy is based on the belief that most unhealthy ways of thinking and behaving have been learned over a long period of time. Using a set of structured techniques, a Cognitive behavioural therapist aims to identify how you are thinking and how this can cause problematic feelings and behaviour. You will then learn to change this way of thinking. This will help you react more positively, which will boost your self-esteem and confidence.
For example, negative thoughts usually lead to upsetting or angry feelings, which can then affect your mood and your behaviour. If you are unable to counter such thoughts with a more positive view, a negative spiral starts and your perceptions of a situation can become distorted. CBT encourages you to challenge beliefs about yourself and your abilities so that you achieve a more realistic view of the situation.
How does CBT work?
It helps you challenge your negative beliefs and to think about times when you have been successful or to consider what happens to other people in similar situations. Once you are thinking more realistically, you are encouraged to imagine how you would go about confronting a feared situation. You will then be gradually exposed to real life situations.
The aim of CBT is to provide you with a timescale for overcoming a problem and to give you the insight and skills to improve your quality of life. You will then be able to cope and progress on your own once therapy is finished.
What problems can CBT help?
CBT can help people who have:
- anger issues
- anxiety and panic attacks
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- depression
- drug or alcohol problems
- eating disorders
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
- persistent pain
- phobias
- post-traumatic stress
- schizophrenia
- sexual or relationship issues
- sleep problems
The Department of Health recognises CBT as one of the most effective therapies treating anxiety and depression. OrganisationHealth Psychologists have undertaken CBT training and use this therapy and other psychological therapies in one to one counselling.
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Look out for:
Professor Derek Mowbray's
speaking engagements:
20th January 2010
HSJ World Class Workforce
Cavendish Centre, London
Professor Mowbray
will speak about:
an outcome of a
Positive Work Culture