Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one of the ‘talking therapies’ for mental health conditions. It aims to eliminate negative thoughts and change behaviour in response to these thoughts. It can help with anxiety, panic attacks, depressive disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders and chronic fatigue.

Exercises:

1. Name the therapy being described. The same therapy may be described more than once. Look at A, B and C to help you.

1 Treatment with drugs toxic to cancer

2 Treatment of cancer by radiation

3 May include massage

4 Aims to eliminate negative thoughts

5 Can involve helping people to talk again

6 Can help with panic attacks

2. Complete the sentence. Look at A to help you.

1………………. treatment is given in larger doses than palliative treatment.

2 Radiotherapy can be used alongside other treatments as…………… therapy.

3……………… treatment is treatment which helps relieve the symptoms of a condition but does not cure it.

4 Radioactive………….. are wires or needles placed into the area to be treated.

5 A typical ……………for an adult is 1.8 to 2 Gy.

3. Complete the text describing a typical working day for Sam. Look at B to help you.

Work begins around 8.00 am. I check for new (1)………………. on the computer and prepare for my morning appointments. Between 9.00 and 12.00 I see new patients around the hospital. I carry out assessments on them and decide what the appropriate form of (2)………………. is. I work with broken limbs, joint (3)………… and ligament repairs. I deal with A&E patients as well as patients referred to me by GPs or specialists.

After lunch I see regular patients. They therapy includes exercises to increase range of motion and to strengthen muscles.

What do I like about being a (4)……………? Getting people back to normal. (5)………….. people so they can get on with their lives after an injury or operation.

Unit 18 Screening and Immunization