PSYC36H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cognitive Load, Cognitive Restructuring, Psychoeducation
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Week 8 lecture #6: tuesday february 23, 2016. Think of a time when you were very upset. One of the originators of cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy. Goal maximize peoples" pleasure and minimize pain. Beliefs about these events leads to emotional consequences. Simplistic approach to how we think feel and act. Explained by abcs: irrational beliefs --> emotional consequences, not activating events --> emotional consequences. Due to the fact that are thoughts are irrational or unlikely beliefs -> which leads to emotional consequences. It isn"t the events that cause the consequences, it is the mediator. Absolute imperatives: ought ought to get good marks in school, must masturbation theory, (absolute comparatives rigid and dogmatic beliefs, or self-disturbing philosophies) Rational beliefs where we must impose on ourselves these things that hold us back or bring us down: should. Don"t have to like them, just accept them the way that they are.
