Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Aaron T. Beck, Exposure Hierarchy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Derek Quinlan

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Goal of treatment: help change maladaptive thoughts, feeling, behaviours. Resources: psychologists & psychiatrists, psychiatric social workers, marriage and family counsellors, pastoral counsellors, abuse counsellors. Process of therapy: relationship between client and therapist and technique. Insight = conscious awareness of psychodynamics underlying problems. Adjust behaviour underlying problems learned in childhood. Free association: not regular conversation, uncensored, verbal reports of thoughts, feelings, or images that enter awareness without censorship. Dream interpretation: therapist helps client understand the symbolic meaning of their dreams. Defensive maneuvers that hinder process of therapy (sign that anxiety-arousing material is being approached) Transference: client responds irrationally to therapist like he/she was important figure from (cid:272)lie(cid:374)t(cid:859)s past (cid:894)(cid:271)ri(cid:374)gs out repressed feeli(cid:374)gs a(cid:374)d (cid:373)aladapti(cid:448)e (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iours(cid:895). Positive -> feelings of affection, dependency, love. Negative -> irrational expressions of anger, hatred, disappointment. Interpretation -> statements by therapist provide client with insight into behaviour. Time (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)i(cid:374)g as (cid:272)lie(cid:374)t (cid:373)ust arri(cid:448)e at (cid:858)i(cid:374)sight(cid:859)