Barton Behavioral Health Solutions, PLLC

Brought to you by Kristin Wylie, MA, LPC

Who am I?

• I graduated from WTAMU with my Masters in Psychology and am licensed in Texas as a Professional Counselor (LPC). I am interested in using cognitive-behavioral therapy to improve health physically as well as mentally.

What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

• Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that your thoughts are distorted. Thinking in this unhelpful manner can become automatic and really take a toll on your behaviors and emotions. The idea is to learn to identify when this is happening, and replace these thoughts with a helpful, rational alternative.
• According to Dr. Judith Beck, people who struggle with losing weight or maintaining their weight loss also have a lot of unhelpful thinking. They often think differently from people who have never had a weight problem.

How Does CBT Promote Weight Loss?

• Traditional dietary therapy (TDT) focuses on prescribing an energy restricted dietary plan or regiment of following a dietary assessment. This is often backed up by a diet sheet. Direct persuasion is used to try to convince the person that they should make the recommended dietary changes.
• Nutrition education has traditionally focused on what changes to make in your dietary intake.  Behavioral treatment focuses on how to make these changes--it’s a combination of information and skills.
• Something that people often forget is that eating is a voluntary behavior. What type, how much, and how often we consume food is a behavior that is directly related to our thoughts.
• By changing our thoughts, we can change our eating behaviors. Eating in a more healthful, controlled, conscious manner is the key to reaching a healthy weight.

The Research:

• A study conducted in Sweden demonstrated that Cognitive Therapy (CT) is effective not only in helping people lose weight but also in maintaining that weight loss.
• According to the research, CBT reliably achieves losses of 10% of pretreatment body weight in the short term.
• Among the various medical approaches to obesity, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is considered the most comprehensive treatment. It takes into account the eating behavior, including the role of emotion on eating pattern, physical activity, and over all energy expenditure, and social life.
• It’s final target is a modification of eating style-physical activity and related habits. The success of therapy by reinforcing motivation and self-esteem, is expected to produce several changes in health perception, not limited to physical components.

What I Have to Offer:

• Education
• Self Monitoring
• Problem Solving
• Accountability and Support
• Change in Eating Habits
• Responding to Sabotaging Thoughts
• Techniques to decrease fear and increase tolerance of hunger and craving.
• Maintenance

The Program

• Implementation of Dr. Judith Beck’s The Beck Diet Solution.

• The program is 6 weeks (the skills learned are designed to last a lifetime)

• One face-to-face session a week (communication throughout the week as needed)

• Daily activities (both cognitive & behavioral)

• The program is offered individually, in a group setting, or through via the internet.

This program will be offered at a discounted rate for the year of 2012!  Call Barton Behavioral Health Solutions to set up a FREE consultation (806) 418-2283

Resources:

Beck, J. S. (2007). The Beck diet solution . Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House.

Madewell, J., & Shaughnessy, M. F. (2009). An interview with Judith Beck about cognitive therapy: Judith Beck. North American Journal of Psychology, 11(1), 29-36.

Marchesini, G. G., Natale, S. S., Chierici, S. S., Manini, R. R., Besteghi, L. L., Di Domizio, S. S., & ... Melchionda, N. N. (2002). Effects of cognitive- behavioural therapy on health-related quality of life in obese subjects with and without binge eating disorder. International Journal Of Obesity & Related Metabolic Disorders, 26(9), 1261.

Rapoport, L. (1998). Integrating cognitive behavioural therapy into dietetic practice: A challenge for dietitians. Journal Of Human Nutrition & Dietetics, 11(3), 227.

Rapoport, L., Clark, M., & Wardle, J. (2000). Evaluation of a modified cognitive–behavioral program for weight management. International Journal Of Obesity & Related Metabolic Disorders, 24(12), 1726.

Stahre, L., Hallstrom, T. (2009). A short-term cognitive group treatment program gives substantial weight reduction up to 18 months from the end of treatment: A randomized controlled trial. Eating and Weight Disorders, 10(1), 51-58.