PSYA02H3 Lecture : Lecture 35
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Developed by aaron beck to deal with depression. Identify the maladaptive behaviour and provide alternative thinking. Patient is engaged in biased thinking in negative direction. Collaborative empiricism is when therapist develops good working relationship to solve the problem. Guided discovery is when therapist tries to prove the patient"s thought is biased in the data gathering process. Situation is not as bad as the patient has described. Correct the misconception and help patient to be less anxious. Identify problem and modify the attitude towards problem. Patient focuses only on a particular detail and ignores the other factors. Over-generalize problem, a mistake in one thing is a mistake in everything. Psychotherapy helps patients to feel better in general.