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Cognitive restructuring
The big picture
Picture the scene: your boss reviews a piece of your work and makes a number of small criticisms. Rather than rationalise and remember that, in general, your boss is usually complimentary about your work, you take the criticisms to heart, dwell on them and become angry. The irrational response stops you from standing back and putting the criticisms in perspective.
Cognitive restructuring is a process of learning to identify and dispute your irrational thoughts and think differently about a situation or belief. Irrational thoughts appear automatically and we may entertain them, obsess about them or simply dismiss them. If they begin to assume too big a place in our thinking, they can be destructive; cognitive ...
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