🌿 EASY READ VERSION (Full Module)
💭 What is CBT?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
is a talking therapy that helps people:
- Understand their thoughts
- Manage feelings
- Change behaviors
👉 It breaks problems into:
- Thoughts 💭
- Feelings ❤️
- Actions 🚶
🔁 How CBT Helps
CBT helps people:
- Challenge negative thinking
- Replace unhelpful behaviors
- Learn coping skills
👉 Small changes can improve how someone feels
🧠 CBT for Different Problems
😟 Anxiety & Phobias
- Reduces avoidance
- Teaches calming skills
- Challenges “worst case” thinking
😔 Depression
- Encourages small activities
- Builds motivation
- Improves mood
🔁 OCD
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Face fears without rituals
- Builds control over thoughts
⚠️ PTSD
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Processes trauma safely
- Changes unhelpful beliefs
🍽️ Eating Problems
- Improves thoughts about food and body
- Builds healthy habits
😴 Sleep Problems
- Improves sleep routines
- Reduces worry at night
🚫 Substance Misuse
- Finds triggers
- Builds coping strategies
🔍 Exposure Therapy (Part of CBT)
Exposure Therapy helps people:
- Face fears safely
- Reduce anxiety over time
👉 Avoiding fear makes it stronger
👉 Facing fear makes it smaller
🤝 Supporting Exposure Therapy
- Start small (fear ladder)
- Go step by step
- Stay long enough
- Be supportive, not forceful
- Practice often
🌧️ Low Motivation & Depression Support
Some people may:
- Feel very tired
- Lose interest
- Struggle with basic tasks
👉 This can be part of
Major Depressive Disorder
🪜 How to Help
- Start very small
- Break tasks into steps
- Offer support
- Be patient
✔ “Let’s do this together”
❌ “Just do it”
🌟 Key Message
- Small steps matter
- Support helps recovery
- Change takes time
📊 POWERPOINT VERSION (Ready-to-Build Slides)
SLIDE 1 – Title
CBT, Exposure Therapy & Mental Health Support
SLIDE 2 – What is CBT?
- Thoughts, feelings, behaviors
- Practical therapy
SLIDE 3 – How CBT Works
- Change thinking
- Change behavior
SLIDE 4 – Anxiety & Phobias
- Reduce avoidance
- Learn calming skills
SLIDE 5 – Depression
- Build motivation
- Small activities
SLIDE 6 – OCD
- Face fears
- Reduce rituals
SLIDE 7 – PTSD
- Process trauma
- Safe support
SLIDE 8 – Other Uses
- Eating disorders
- Sleep problems
- Substance misuse
SLIDE 9 – Exposure Therapy
- Face fears gradually
- Reduce anxiety
SLIDE 10 – Supporting Exposure
- Small steps
- Stay with it
- Encourage
SLIDE 11 – Low Motivation
- Low energy
- Daily struggles
SLIDE 12 – How to Help
- Be patient
- Break tasks down
- Support gently
SLIDE 13 – Key Message
Small steps = progress
📘 TRAINING / PROFESSIONAL VERSION
Overview
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
is a structured, time-limited intervention (typically 5–15 sessions) focusing on present difficulties.
Core Components
- Cognitive restructuring
- Behavioral activation
- Exposure techniques
- Skills practice (homework)
Condition-Specific Applications
Anxiety & Phobias
- Cognitive restructuring
- Graded exposure
Depression
- Behavioral activation
- Activity scheduling
OCD
- Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
PTSD
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- Trauma-focused CBT
Insomnia
- CBT-I (sleep restriction, hygiene)
Substance Misuse
- Trigger identification
- Relapse prevention
Supporting Low Motivation
Key Concept: Avolition
- Reduced ability to initiate tasks
- Common in depression
Intervention Strategies
- Task breakdown
- Prompting and cueing
- Co-regulation
- Reinforcement of effort
Risk Monitoring
- Self-neglect
- Isolation
- Suicidal ideation
🧩 QUIZ (Assessment)
Questions
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What does CBT focus on?
a) The past only
b) Thoughts, feelings, behaviors
c) Medication only
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What is exposure therapy?
a) Avoiding fear
b) Facing fear safely
c) Ignoring fear
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What helps depression in CBT?
a) Doing nothing
b) Behavioral activation
c) Isolation
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What is OCD treatment in CBT?
a) Avoidance
b) ERP
c) Sleep therapy
-
What is a good support strategy?
a) Pressure
b) Small steps
c) Ignore
Answers
- b
- b
- b
- b
- b
🎭 OPTIONAL ROLE-PLAY ACTIVITY
Scenario:
A person has not showered for several days due to depression.
Task:
- Practice supportive communication
- Break task into steps
- Offer help without pressure
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