Asked by Ashley Ridore on Apr 24, 2024

Read the following statement from your client: I ate ice cream last night after dinner. I'm so bad! You want to help your client change their patterns of thinking. What could you say?

A) Possibly your thoughts may be hampering your progress to make behavior changes. What is something positive you could say to yourself the next time you eat ice cream?
B) Well, eating ice cream isn't bad. How much did you eat? Maybe next time don't eat so much.
C) You aren't bad. The ice cream is bad. Do you want to set some goals so this doesn't happen again? Do you want to try eating fruit after dinner?
D) Why did you buy the ice cream?
E) Besides bad, how does that make you feel?

Cognitive Restructuring

Challenging destructive thoughts, beliefs, and internal self-talk and substituting self-enhancing cognitions.

Thinking Patterns

Habitual ways of thinking that can influence one's attitudes, behavior, and decision-making.

Behavior Change

A process of altering habits, actions, and patterns of behavior to achieve certain health or personal goals.

  • Understand the role of cognitive restructuring in changing dietary habits.