087: Role-Play Techniques (Part 5) — Devil's Advocate

Feeling Good Podcast | TEAM-CBT - The New Mood Therapy

David Burns, MD

Clinical, Therapy, Anxiety, Psychotherapy, Depression, Health & Fitness, Cognitive, Mentalhealth, Mental Health, Behavior, Education, Self-improvement, Psychology, Relationships, Addiction, Happiness, Personalgrowth

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🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Devil’s Advocate Technique is another one of the role-playing techniques in TEAM-CBT. You can use this technique for any habit or addiction, such as:

Drug or alcohol abuse
Overeating / binge eating
Shopping addiction
Internet addiction
And procrastination, which is our problem for today.

David and Fabrice are joined by Sara Shane, a member of David’s Tuesday evening psychotherapy Stanford training group for northern California mental health professionals. Sara has volunteered to demonstrate the technique to see if she can get some help with procrastination.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Feeling Good podcast.
0:12.4	I am your host, Fabrice Nye.
0:14.7	And joining me here in the Murrieta Studios is Dr. David Burns.
0:19.0	Hi, David.
0:20.0	Hi, Fabrice.
0:23.8	Dr. David Burns has been a pioneer in the development of cognitive therapy, and he is the creator of the new team therapy. He is the author of
0:30.2	Feeling Good, which has sold over 5 million copies in the United States, and has been translated into
0:35.5	over 20 languages. He is an emeritus adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry at the Stanford University School
0:43.0	of Medicine.
0:44.0	Welcome to episode 87 of the Feeling Good podcast.
0:48.7	We are back with the Tuesday group here and with me and David is Sarah who will be our volunteer
0:57.9	tonight. Hi, Sarah. Hi. We're going to be demonstrating today the role play method called
1:05.2	the devil's advocate. And we've actually demonstrated this earlier this year when we did an episode on the motivation to follow one's New Year's resolution.
1:18.0	And in this case, we're going to isolate the method so that it's clear as to how it's being applied.
1:24.4	You know, David, this is a really powerful method, but it's not a treatment in the itself.
1:30.3	It's something you use for habits and addictions, right?
1:32.3	Yes, it's one of the tools I use in treating habits and addictions, and it's really a powerful tool,
1:37.3	and people will like it and want to use it because it's easy to learn, and it's really cool to use it, and very effective, but it's not a complete treatment.
1:45.9	We don't throw techniques at problems, but rather work with team, T-E-A-M, testing, empathy,
1:53.0	agenda setting, and methods. And this would just be one of several methods that we'd use
1:57.8	to work with someone with some kind of habit or addiction.
2:03.3	But we're just going to isolate this one method so you can learn how to do it.
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