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Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive Therapy. Pioneer : Aaron T. Beck Influential Theories: Psychoanalysis: People are unaware of their behaviors; cognitive therapy brings people awareness to surface

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Cognitive Therapy

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  1. Cognitive Therapy

  2. Pioneer : Aaron T. Beck Influential Theories: Psychoanalysis: People are unaware of their behaviors; cognitive therapy brings people awareness to surface Adlerian Psychology: People’s personality are influenced by their beliefs due to social dialogues. Cognitive therapy changes people’s believes through dialogues Allbert Ellis (RET): disorders are related to irrational beliefs. Cognitive Therapy changes people’s inaccurate perceptions Kelly’s psychology; people constructs perception to anticipate. Cognitive therapy changes wrong construction thus changes wrong anticipation Piaget explains 4 stages of development; Sensori-motor, preoperation, concrete operations, and formal operations. Cognitive therapy accepts such developmental stages

  3. BEHAVIOR The Childhood Compensation The Conditional The Beliefs automatic situation meaning emotion The Diagram • The Schema: • Positive • Negative

  4. Cognitve Distortions • All or None Thinking • Selective Abstraction • Mind Reading • Negative Predictions • Catastrophizing • Overgeneralization • Labeling & Mislabeling • Magnification & Minimization • Personalization Goals of Therapy: Changing These Biases Biases of Thinking

  5. Goals of Therapy: Changing Distorted Cognitions Interviews Psychological Scales & Questionnaires : BDI, Suicide Scales, Dysfunctional Attitude Scale, etc Therapeutic Relationships; Collaborative (similar to Rogers) Therapeutic Processes Therapeutic Techniques

  6. The Process Guided Discovery / Socratic Dialogue/ Maieutics The Three Questions What is the evidence of the beliefs How else could you interpret If it is true, what are the implications Specifying Automatic Thoughts Homework Session Format: check feelings, check homework, check concerns & feedback Termination

  7. The Techniques • Understanding Idiosyncratic Meaning – understand the word • Challenging Absolutes • Reattribution • Labeling of Distortions • Decatastrophizing – “what if” statements • Challenging All-or-None Thinking • Listing Advantage & Disadvantage • Cognitive Rehearsal

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