ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at ways of changing problematic patterns of thinking. The more thinking errors psychotherapists make, the more likely it is that our thinking will be unhelpful, which will have consequences on how psychotherapists behave and how their feel, both emotionally and physically. There are several ways of looking at how thinking may become negatively-biased. Patient then may be able to see if a particular thought that patient has had shares characteristics with these thinking errors. The idea behind using the vignettes to try and identify thinking errors is that it gives patient practice at applying these techniques at a distance—patient is examining someone else's thoughts and not patients own. Perhaps, if a more helpful thought is rewarded with a positive emotion or physiological reaction, or with a more helpful behaviour, then maybe this new way of thinking might be more likely to occur again.
