SESSION 3: Think-Feel-Act

Psychopathology: Histrionic Personality Disorder

Scale Used: Brief Histrionic Personality Scale

I. Description of Activity

Most of the participants showed symptoms of HPD experiences depressed feeling and feeling of
melancholy due to their inability to cope with their day to day events, especially on dealing
relationships with their partners. Negative and distorted thought patterns, hinders individuals to
think rationally and act nondramatically towards other people.

Think-Feel-Act lets the participants identify their negative thought pattern and enables to replace
negative thoughts with healthier, more realistic ones and their future perception of their behaviors
towards them.

Think-Feel-Act activity has helped give light to the participants who has been experiencing
hardships to cope in these situations. Through this activity, it helped those people who has
depressed feelings become aware that these cognitions that affects how they act and react toward
certain situations which could give some ideas as to how to deal with it.

II. Procedure

Think-Feel-Act

Goal: Replacing negative thoughts with healthier, more realistic ones. Work on treating and
changing your negative or damaging thought patterns.

Time: The Session will only last for a minimum of 5 minutes to 10 minutes maximum.

Population: Adolescents
Procedure

1. Introduce first that this activity is about think-feel-act is inline with the voice of truth.

3. They were asked to write what they feel and think towards a certain situation and put their
responses on how they react or behave in respect to these situations

4. They were also told to think of any similar or other scenarios that makes them feel down or
irrational.

5. After identifying clients were also ask if what are the right responses to these situations.

6. Collect the papers.

III. Integration

Transcript

Justine: Good morning again. So this is our second session, and we will start again, as soon as
you are both ready.

Kevin: unsa napod ni?

Queenie: lahi napod ni siya?

Justine: Inline ni siya sa atoang first na activity. So again, naa koy ihatag na paper sa inyuha and
ang title kay Think-feel-act. So as you can see nay naka butang naay isa ka tao diha, kanang naa
sa picture, also Makita ninto na naay naka butang na thoughts, feelings, and actions. So kana
butangan na ninyo sa inyuhang responses towards a situation na ihatag nako unya. So lugar, think
na kamo nang tao diha sa photo, regardless of gender.

Kevin: Pwede kami ang mag pili sa scenario?

Justine: Okay sige, so unsa man na scenario?

Kevin: Katong nag meeting ta ninyo

Justine: Queenie? Uhm, unsa man imuha? Kay kana dawn a scenario ang gusto ni kevin.

Queenie: Lahi ra akoa, mag huna huna ra pod ko unsa akoa. Wait lang.

Justine: okay, just take your time queeni, we are not pressuring you here..

Queenie: katong wala ko gipansin sa akoang mga friends then sa akoang partner.

Justine: Okay, settled na. You can put your responses sa paper na.

After 7 minutes

Both: humana mi, just.

Both clients finished the activity.

Justine: thank you guys, we finished the second activity. This activity lets you identify how you
think, feel, and act into situations that distresses you. This also lets you to think of possible
outcomes and lets you both practice how to respond in certain situations.

Synthesis and Integration

The think-feel-act helps the clients by letting them think how they would respond to their
cognitions and thoughts from different situations that affects their day to day functioning. As for
kevin and queenie, letting them think and look for responses that are in context to what they feel
about the situation eliminates and replaces these negative thought patterns with healthier and
realistic ones about why this person doesnt give them the attention they needed, lets them
understand and adjust themselves further. This also lets them have an idea what to do what to feel
in future situations. Although identifying the how to react in healthier ways begins with their
assumptions, positive assumptions towards certain acts produces less feelings of being distressed.
It is a very important tool for cognitive behavioral therapy in changing the way people think or
behavior that are behind peoples difficulties, and so change the way they feel and can be used in
a wide array regarding peoples life, from relationship problems, to anxiety and depression. CBT
works by changing peoples attitudes and their behavior by focusing on the thoughts, images,
beliefs and attitudes that helds the persons cognitive processes and how the person behaves, as a
way in dealing in emotional problems.
Psychotherapy

Think-Feel-Act as a technique had been taken from behavior therapy and are used by different
psychological theories and psychotherapy, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Researchers
have shown that this technique is effective when used in treating and changing your negative or
damaging thought patterns.

CBT is a type of psychotherapy that helps people identify thoughts, feelings, and experiences that
influence their behaviors. It's usually a short-term treatment approach, making it more affordable
than other therapies, such as psychoanalytic therapy. For individuals with histrionic personality
disorder, identifying thought patterns and their origins could help them make the connection
between these thoughts and their behaviors. This, in turn, allows them to see how they can work
to change their thoughts to successfully change their behavior.

In order to combat these destructive thoughts and behaviors, a cognitive-behavioral therapist

begins by helping the client to identify the problematic beliefs. This stage, known as functional
analysis, is important for learning how thoughts, feelings, and situations can contribute to
maladaptive behaviors. The process can be difficult, especially for patients who struggle with
introspection, but it can ultimately lead to self-discovery and insights that are an essential part of
the treatment process.

The second part of cognitive behavior therapy focuses on the actual behaviors that are contributing
to the problem. The client begins to learn and practice new skills that can then be put in to use in
real-world situations.

In most cases, CBT is a gradual process that helps a person take incremental steps towards a
behavior change.

V. Observation:

At the start of the activity, the participants are evidently very active and participative. They have
listened well to the instructions that are given and is able to catch up very fast. During the writing
part of the activity, you can see their sincerity to their feelings, they talk about their thoughts while
writing and shows how they really feel.
The identifying the how would they react and act in certain situations caused a lot of their time by
thinking the probable ways to respond to person of situation in front of them. Although it took
time, I can see that when people think how to react rationally, thinking it thoroughly may give a
person a lot of choices to respond. When they look at the brighter side or doesnt dramatize their
actions, there is a light showing up on their faces.

VI. Results and Discussion

Most of their outputs showed that they have negative thoughts to simple events. These negative
thoughts then may hinder their functioning and judgment on a daily basis. Luckily, they are able
to not dramatize their responses.

Kevin would think that the problem was just easy and he feels bad and annoyed towards the people
involved but he manages to response in a calm way by saying he have no ideas towards it.
Responding in a calm way is a great improvement towards how they think and process. Queenies
thoughts regarding a person not paying attention is somehow distant, instead of pushing herself
more, she is able to move distance even though she feels sad that she is not enough for this person.
The ability to distance yourself when you feel down and not pushing yourself into the person and
nagging is a positive for queenie.

The activity has given them great help in letting them process situations and respond rationally
towards it. These activity is sensitive enough to meet the demands of the participant for
understanding and is somewhat also an aid in helping them become aware that their thoughts might
just be an obstacle to them to continue living with their live

VII. Findings

This activity focuses on the participants thoughts and feelings pertaining to being left-out or
ignored to someone they love or is important to them. This activity is a great aid in helping these
people to cope with their situations. This would help them become responsible towards how they
act and feel in certain situations.
 Participants
Amarille, Kevin
Buenaventura, Queenie
Transition Plan:
Amarille, Kevin
Build awareness on negative
thoughts and educate the
client more about it being a
hindrance, and to help them
respond in a healthier way.
Buenaventura, Queenie
Learn to evaluate negative
cognitions as merely
distractions and learn from it
and to help them respond in
a healthier way.
Results
He exhibits annoyance to the situation as he
thinks that the problem is too easy but
successfully responded that he has no idea
about it. The ability to respond in such way
might give him the ability to cope in day to
day interaction with people.
She exhibits negative feelings and thoughts
towards situations but instead of pushing
herself more to the person in which she is not
enough, she is able to distance herself. Thus,
her ability to respond in such a way is a
positive and might give her the ability to cope
in day to day interaction with people.
Perform other relevant
Monitor his improvements of
procedures towards the
his ways of thinking and how
development of her wellness.
he responses from situation
Conduct follow-up activities
to situation
if necessary.
The negative, distorted Evaluate progress for every
thoughts, and feelings improvement done by the
associated towards those client. Perform necessary
thoughts are being attended activties or repeat activities if
to enabling clients to identify needed to and to help them
and focus on changing them. respond in a healthier way.
Prognosis
First of all, It is expected that after this experience, the clients will be able to regulate/replace their
thoughts that potentially cause problems toward their relationship with other people and they
should be able to act rationally towards certain emotions and feelings that they encounter in their
day to day activities. Through this application, they will be able to be more mindful and rational
towards their thoughts and actions and improve their well-being. Second, Prognosis is good as
long as the individual sticks to the treatment plan and follows the therapist's instructions. People
with HPD, lead normal lives and are able to work and be a part of society. Many of them only
encounter problems in more intimate relationships

For Kevin, his irrational thoughts have become a hindrance for his day to day functioning but
because of this activity, it helped him realized that these are all unjustified ideas he can manage to
respond in a rational way. If he continues this kind of thinking, then in conducting other activities
and also through the help of other people.

For Queenie, same as Kevin, her irrational thoughts have been an obstacle on her. Because of this
activity, she realized that all of her thoughts are just unsubstantiated cognitions that serves as a
hindrance to her. If she discontinues to think of these thoughts then surely shell recover fully and
effectively and have more rational responses towards situations