ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Social Skills, Therapeutic Relationship, Public Knowledge
Document Summary
Behaviour change can be reached through cognitive change. Viewpoint that all habits and beliefs are learned. Attempt to explain emotional problems based on behavioural observations. Learned helplessness seen to possibly be origin of depression. Derived from classical and operant conditioning methods. Behaviour modification must be in a controlled social environment. Counsellors cannot directly apply behaviour modification, but can explain behavioural ideas to clients so that they can change themselves (behavioural self-control) Functional analysis: where and when? (stimulus, what happens? (behaviour, rewards/ pleasures? (consequences) Idea that phobias are first learned through classical conditioning, and then reinforced by operant (e. g. by people avoiding what they fear) The behavioural methods were not purely behavioural counsellors often asked clients to reflect on feelings as well. Beck"s realisation that emotional difficulties are not so much caused by events as they are by the interpretation of these events: automatic thoughts which can be controlled if people pay attention to their internal dialogue.
