PSYC 408 Chapter Notes - Chapter kennerly chap. 1-2: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Therapy
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Psyc408: lecture 8: reading notes: an introduction to cognitive. Cbt is sometimes criticized for being a simple-minded cookbook approach to therapy. Talking about cbt as if it were a single therapy is misleading. Modern cbt doesn"t have a monolithic structure. Rather, it encompasses a broad movement that is still developing and full of controversies. Modern cbt has two main influences: behaviour therapy, wolpe and others in the 1950s and 1960s, cognitive therapy. Introduced by beck at the beginning of 1960s: became more popular during the cognitive revolution of the 1970s. 6-12 sessions: the limitation of behaviour therapy was that mental processes such as thoughts, beliefs, interpretations, imager, etc. are an obvious part of life, and it seems absurd not to address them at all. Behaviour therapy and cognitive therapy grew together and influenced each other, eventually forming cognitive behaviour therapy (cbt) People"s emotional reactions and behaviour are strongly influenced by cognitions (thoughts, mental images, beliefs, interpretations about themselves, etc. )
