Assignment task:
Apply Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles to analyze a TV character's psychological issues and develop a comprehensive treatment plan. Take your pick of movie, tv show, broadway character, etc.
Character Selection: Choose your character and give a brief background including presenting problems. Use examples from the source (show, play, movie) to show their symptoms.
Cognitive Distortions: Identify and explain at least three cognitive distortions the character exhibits. Provide examples from the TV show that demonstrate these distorted thoughts.
Emotional Responses: Describe the character's emotional responses related to their cognitive distortions and presenting problems. How do their thoughts influence their feelings?
Behavioral Patterns: Analyze the character's behaviors that are linked to their cognitive distortions and emotional responses. What maladaptive behaviors do they exhibit, and how do these behaviors maintain their psychological issues?
Treatment Plan Development:
Treatment Goals: Define at least three specific, measurable, and achievable treatment goals for the character.
Intervention Strategies: Outline CBT intervention strategies and techniques that would be used to address the character's cognitive distortions, emotional responses, and behavioral patterns. Include cognitive restructuring, behavioral activation, and any other relevant CBT techniques.
Session Structure: Describe the structure of a typical therapy session with the character, including the types of activities and discussions that would take place.
Treatment Plan Review:
How do you expect your client to respond to CBT? What may your challenges in working with this client? In what ways you expect counter transference to appear for you in the therapy room?
Link of TV show below:
YouTube Video: Diff'rent Strokes | Pilot | Movin' In | Season 1 Episode 1 Full Episode | Classic TV Rewind