Posted by JonW on November 4, 2003, at 20:39:29
In reply to Re: For JonW!, posted by ace on November 3, 2003, at 21:04:37
> Great to hear! So tell me, when you say it is day and night, do you mean you are constantly involved in CBT- like can you give me an example?
I mean, other CBT therapists were well-intentioned but didn't bring the same know-how to the table as the AACT. Other CBT therapist I've seen never incorporated effective exposures into the sessions, for example.
> The program at Temple and others like it are the Nardil of CBT,
>
> How are they different?I would say the effective use of exposures, for one. The efficiency with which the AACT learns from what I say during my sessions is quite impressive as well. They seem to have this uncanny ability to figure out how to make it work for me. They are very good at identifying why things aren't working, and fixing it. They are very precise in everything they do. As far as the exposures go, they are quite elaborate. They involve the entire department at Temple (yes, lots of college girls <g>), and are as realistic as possible -- the people are not nice to you because you have social anxiety, etc. The advantage of the exposures is a chance to get real feedback, and afterwards ask the people involved questions specific to your automatic thoughts, etc. The impact of teasing it all out is amazing, at least for me. The real advantage this place has is that what they do is the result of research specific to CBT for social anxiety disorder, and not just the result of what someone thinks will work.
> Yeah, it's great it works for some. I hope I have not offended too many people with my comments, but I always let 'em know that it's only my opinion.
Aren't you "good ace" now? How could anyone be offended by "good ace"? :)
>It's wonderful that people have different opinions I think- what a boring world if we were just clones!
It's certainly a lot more fun this way!
Jon :)
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