PS275 Lecture Notes - Dysfunctional Family, Dysphoria, Reality Television
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Traditional assessment concentrates on measuring underlying personality structures and traits, such as obsessiveness Behavioural and cognitively oriented clinicians often use a system that involves the assessment of four sets of variables, sometimes referred to by the acronym sorc. S stands for stimuli, the environmental situations that precede the problem. O stands for organismic, referring to both psychological and psychological factors assumed to be operating under the skin. These probably receive the most attention from behavioural clinicians, who must determine what behaviour is problematic, as well as the behaviours frequency intensity and form. C refers to consequent variables, events that appear to be reinforcing or punishing the behaviour in question. Cognitive-behavioural case formulation: place considerably more emphasis on cognitive events such as people"s distorted thinking patterns, negative self-instructions, irrational automatic thought and beliefs and schemas. The information necessary for a behavioural or cognitive assessment is gathered by several methods; direct observation, interviews and self-reports, and various other methods.
