Read the case study and answer the five questions that follow:

Nikita and Ritika are twins. Nikita is intelligent. Friendly and popular among her friends. Rikita is shy, withdrawn and feels inferior to her sister. As a child, she felt her parents neglected her and was deeply hurt when they made comparisons. As she grew, these feelings of rejection were reinforced when teachers made statements like. "Look how well Nikita is doing! Why can't you be like her?" Ritika's feelings of rejection only strengthened with time. With the passage of time, Ritika was convinced that she is not good enough and would always be a failure in life.

Identify the Therapy best suited for Ritika.

Beck's Cognitive Therapy

The correct answer is Option (3) → Beck's Cognitive Therapy

Ritika is struggling with deep-seated negative thoughts, such as "I am not good enough" and "I will always be a failure." These are cognitive distortions that result from dysfunctional thinking patterns.

Beck’s Cognitive Therapy is specifically designed to identify, challenge, and restructure such irrational and negative automatic thoughts, making it the most suitable therapy for Ritika.

Other options:

• Systematic Desensitisation is used mainly for treating phobias and anxiety, not negative self-beliefs.

• Token Economy is a behavior modification technique used often with children or institutional settings, especially for observable behaviors.

• Psychodynamic therapy: This therapy focuses on unconscious conflicts and early childhood experiences. While Ritika's childhood experiences are relevant, the immediate problem is her current, conscious conviction about being a failure, which is more directly targeted by cognitive approaches. Psychodynamic therapy would explore the roots of these feelings, but a cognitive approach would more directly address the current faulty thinking that maintains her distress.