Reasonable fit of Aaron Beck's Cognitive Therapy Model in a pilot sample of signing deaf people, a systematization of experience

Abstract

The main objective of this systematization of experiences was to illustrate the process of adjustment of Aaron Temkin Beck’s Cognitive Therapy Model to a non-probability sample of 16 deaf individuals with different levels of communication, users of Colombian Sign Language. Considering the sociolinguistic characteristics of this minority population, a process of translation, backward translation was carried out for this model, with the different cognitive distortions through audiovisual formats. To accomplish this, a tool was designed to allow the understanding of this model in deaf individuals with broad and sufficient communication competence.