The TREC therapy has different techniques to help combat our irrational beliefs, today we explain how the hand technique can help you and what its benefits are for the patient.
The technique
The hand technique We like to use it with patients who have a tendency to always look for a single explanation for anything that worries them or has happened to them.
For example, imagine a patient says: I sent a message to a friend of mine and she did not reply.
Her head has gone off in search of the only possible explanation, which is: my friend is angry with me, she will never speak to me again, and I have lost a friend.
Then it is time to use the hand technique:
- One option could be that he is angry with you and does not want to speak to you again.
- Perhaps the battery has run out
- Maybe he's doing something and can't answer you at the moment.
- Perhaps he or she is in a situation where he or she is unable to attend to you.
- Maybe he's upset with you and he's going to talk to you.
What do we achieve by using this technique?
Their anxiety is reduced, are not going to focus on the most catastrophic and unique possibility they have, but they will see that there is more than one answer to their problem.
The other possible answers used to be more rational and much more common.
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