FRHD 3400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Social Skills, Stimulant, Selective Mutism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3400
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

Cognition refers to the methods people use to understand their environment and themselves, such as their perceptions, sensations, learning, memory, and other psychological processes. Cognitive therapy focuses on people "s thinking as the primary pathway to change. Beck explained that infants are born with the disposition to survive and desire to procreate. Innate feelings of pleasure and pain is used as a guide through out life. People perceive, interpret and learn from different experiences. Cognitive therapists acknowledge that children have different temperaments that push them in diverse directions and therefore are more likely to perceive the same event differently. Distress occurs when there is a threat to one"s interest: example: infant cries to be fed or teenager fears being without friends. This model describes cognition within a person: automatic thoughts, intermediate beliefs, core beliefs, schemas. Cognitive counseling usually starts with the automatic thoughts. Moves to identifying, evaluating, and changing inter-mediate and core beliefs, then to modifying schemas.