PSYC 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Brainstorming
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Considers behaviour the most important and so they intervene at that level. Considers feelings the most important and so the direct intervention is aimed at. Ct consider thoughts the most important so address thoughts to change the way people think, feel and behave. Cognitive therapists believe that thoughts, feelings and behaviours are all interrelated (imagine a triangle with bidirectional arrows). Cbt believes that these three things are interrelated. Emotion-focused therapists also believe thoughts, feelings and behaviours are all interrelated. working with emotions in more productive ways. We spend a lot of time reacting and not enough time thinking. A cognitive therapist tries to get the client to slow down and consider their thinking and what their thoughts are trying to tell them. Thoughts are usually a full sentence or phrase and feelings are usually a single word. Ct works with core beliefs and are responsible for how we feel in our lives.
