One woman recalls being given cognitive behavioural homework to overcome a particular anxiety.
For tasks that require attention and cognitive demands (ie homework), researchers have found that the mere presence of a mobile phone may be sufficiently distracting to damage attention.
Differences in neuropsychological functioning between these two samples led to a shorter duration and less demanding cognitive strategies and homework assignments in the programme for schizophrenia compared to those in mood disorder.
Participants create an action plan to implement a cognitive behavioural strategy as homework.
The meta-analysis conducted by Kazantzis et al. (2000) included homework-related studies spanning from 1980, 1 year following Beck's emphasis on regularly using homework in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression (Beck et al. 1979), through 1998, a time when homework in therapy had been incorporated into a more diverse range of clinical conditions (Kazantzis et al. 2000).
Fiorini and Keane (2014) find that educational activities like these are the most productive uses of time for cognitive development, so increases to homework and reading time should translate into test score gains.
A vital part of the treatment was the gradual access to internet-based self-help text comprising 15 text modules, each covering a specific theme (e.g., exposure or cognitive restructuring) completed with a homework component.
Later, clinicians should give patients homework to practice cognitive restructuring every time they notice a tendency to decrease their efforts in lifestyle modification as a consequence of an event.
Intervention components included information, education, health professional discussion, homework, peer discussion, buddy support, cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive restructuring, psychoeducation, Reiki and relaxation.
Brennan stressed the need for concussed student athletes to receive "cognitive rest," including a reduction in homework until they no longer had symptoms.
