ABSTRACT
In SSI-CBT, there are two different goals: session goals, or what the client wants to achieve from the session they are having with you, and problem-related goals, or what they want to achieve related to their nominated problem. Often when people discuss their problems in therapy, they talk about their disturbed responses to the actual situations that they find problematic. Perhaps the most straightforward healthy responses to construct are behavioural. When constructing healthy cognitive responses to the adversity, i.e. responses that accompany emotions at ‘C’ rather than those that mediate (at ‘B’) responses to the adversity at ‘A’, a useful rule of thumb is as follows. Healthy cognitive responses are balanced and incorporate negative, neutral and positive features of ‘A’.
