PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Systematic Desensitization, Cognitive Therapy, Behaviour Therapy
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Lec 23: march 28, 2016 behavioural and cogniive behavioural therapies. Psychotherapy: set of clinical techniques used to improve mental health. Behaviour therapy (behaviour modiicaion therapy): changing someone"s behaviour. Operant condiioning learning through posiive and negaive reinforcement. Cogniive therapy psychotherapy aimed at changing way of thinking: raional emoive behaviour therapy, raional behaviour therapy, raional living therapy, cogniive therapy, dialecic behaviour therapy. Brief and ime limited: ave # of sessions = 16 vs psychoanalysis = several years. Cbt is a collaboraive efort between the therapist and the client: client role deine goals, express concerns, learn and implement learning, therapist role help client deine goals, listen, teach, encourage. Teacher the beneit of remaining calm or at least neutral when faced with diicult situaions. Based on raional thought: fact not assumpions. Cbt is structured and direcive: based on noion that maladapive behaviours are the result of skill deicits.
