Objective: Multimodal Anxiety and Social Skills Intervention (MASSI) is based on the principles of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), addressing an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and actions, as well as the interactions among these three domains, to bring about desired changes. Based on the principles of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), addressing an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and actions, as well as the interactions among these three domains, to bring about desired changes. The therapist and adolescent work collaboratively to explore how cognitions contribute to anxious feelings and avoidance behaviors and, in turn, how these feelings and behaviors contribute to faulty cognitions.
Content Taught
CBT is based on several core principles, including:
- Psychological problems are based, in part, on faulty or unhelpful ways of thinking.
- Psychological problems are based, in part, on learned patterns of unhelpful behavior.
- People suffering from psychological problems can learn better ways of coping with them, thereby relieving their symptoms and becoming more effective in their lives.
CBT places an emphasis on helping individuals learn to be their own therapists. Through exercises in the session as well as “homework” exercises outside of sessions, patients/clients are helped to develop coping skills, whereby they can learn to change their own thinking, problematic emotions, and behavior.
Teaching Procedures
This practice does not have a Lesson Starter, but you can find detailed information about using it.
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