CNPS 365 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Cognitive Therapy, Therapeutic Relationship, Cognitive Restructuring
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Belief disturbances in cogniive processes is in large part a cause of psych distress. Emphasis on changing cogniions to produce desired changes in afect and behavior. Educaional tx focusing on speciic and structured target problems. Client"s responsibility to assume an acive role during/outside therapy sessions. Use cogniive and behavioural strategies to bring about change. Rational emotive behaviour therapy (albert ellis - rebt) Ppl contribute to their own psych problems and to speciic problems by the rigid/extreme beliefs they hold about events and situaions. Cogniions, emoions, behaviours interact signiicantly and have reciprocal cause-and-efect relaionship. = integraive approach b/c it integrates cogniions, emoions, behaviours. Ppl have emoional reacions to and evaluate/interpret things based on their beliefs. Idenify, challenge, replace irraional beliefs then emoional reacions change too. Therapy = educaional process teacher and student (with hw) Free associaion, dreams, past history, expressing/exploring feelings, transference. Transference ideniied, analyzed and snufed out immediately.