Chapter 5
Setting Your Sights on Goals
In This Chapter
Defining your goals for emotional and behavioural change
Living a healthy lifestyle
Filling your time constructively
Motivating yourself
Looking after the positive changes you’ve made
If we had to define the purpose of therapy, its purpose would not be to make you a straighter-thinking, more rational person. Rather, the purpose of therapy is to help you achieve your goals. Thinking differently is one way of achieving those goals. CBT can help you change the way you feel and behave. This chapter helps you define your goals and suggests some sources of inspiration for change.
Aaron Beck, founder of cognitive therapy, says that CBT is whatever helps you move from your problems to your goals. This definition emphasises the pragmatic and flexible nature of CBT, and encourages clients and therapists to select from a wide range of psychological ...
