Metaphors for CBT Sessions Metaphors serve as essential communication tools within therapeutic relationships, creating pathways between abstract psychological concepts and clients' lived experiences. We encounter this phenomenon across numerous therapeutic modalities, though cognitive behavioural therapy particularly benefits from metaphorical frameworks [9]. Recent research examining nine studies with 267 participants demonstrates that metaphors support clients in articulati

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What is productive procrastination? It is replacing one adaptive behaviour with another adaptive (but less important) behaviour. An example here is organising our notes for an exam instead of studying for the exam. Before we go on, we need to understand procrastination because it is a decision. When we procrastinate, we decide to delay a course of action despite expecting to be worse off because of the delay. Research continually shows that procrastinators struggle with poor

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