Discuss how you can use Cognitive strategies in crisis counseling.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

?Clients in crisis can be encouraged to look at specific thought patterns and how they might affect anxiety and their ability to cope. This is typically part of a longer-term crisis counseling effort.
?If you accept that how your clients thinking patterns affect how they feel, it stands to reason that helping to change self-destructive thought patterns can help them feel better. If you can help your clients rethink their specific problems, it may affect how emotionally immersed they are in the feelings that accompany those situations.
?Your crisis client can be encouraged, for example, to examine self-defeating thoughts and negative belief systems.
?Most of us carry some beliefs about the world and our place in it that are simply irrational. These irrational beliefs impair our ability to live easily in the world.
?Thinking, for example, that “Everyone should like me” or that “Life is supposed to be fair” can lead to real difficulties in life as the reality of what happens to us collides with these beliefs. No one is liked by everyone, although we all know people who spend most of their lives trying to make that happen. And life is rarely fair. Bad things often happen to good people.
?When bad things happen, particularly to someone who is deeply entrenched in believing that life should play by the rules, a serious crisis can result. Ellis identified an array of these typical belief patterns and suggested that counselors could best help their clients by helping them directly confront their particular irrational belief demons. This would naturally involve first identifying the irrational beliefs and then demonstrating how irrational they really are.