CLP 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Model
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Psychodynamic treatment: psychodynamic therapists use the same basic procedures for all psychological disorders. Behavioral treatment: behavioral therapists use a variety of strategies to help increase the number of rewards experienced by their clients. Reintroduce clients to pleasurable activities and events, often using a weekly schedule. Appropriately reinforce their depressive and nondepressive behaviors. Help them improve their social skills: the behavioral techniques seem to be of only limited help when just one of them is applied. When two or more of the techniques are combined, behavioral treatment may reduce depressive symptoms, particularly if mild. Lewinsohn has combined behavioral techniques with cognitive. Cognitive treatment strategies in recent years: many studies have produced evidence in support of beck"s. High correlation between the level of depression and the explanation number of maladaptive attitudes held. Both the cognitive triad and errors in logic are seen in people with depression. Automatic thinking has been linked to depression.
