A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cognitive Therapy, Radical Behaviorism, Cognitive Restructuring
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An introduction to health psychology; summary chapter 13. Based on cognitive behavioural theories of stress, which consider stress to be the outcome of a variety of environmental and cognitive processes. Stress is seen as a negative emotional and physiological state resulting from our cognitive responses to events that occur around us. Stress management approaches are in part based on these theories and in part on more clinical theories. Our cognitive response to events determines our mood and that feelings of distress are a consequence of irrational thinking. Stress is the result of misinterpretations of environmental events or cognitions that exegerate the negative elements within them and lose focus on any positive aspects of the situation. Automatic negative assumptions: thoughts that drive negative emotions: come to mind automatically as the individual"s first response to a particular situation and are without logic or grounding in reality.
