PSY 335 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Operant Conditioning, Aaron T. Beck
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Pathology related to unconscious conflict in past played out in the present. Therapeutic intervention focused on uncovering and resolving conflict through introspection. Therapist guides understanding roots and manifestation of intrapsychic conflicts. Alienation from true self caused by avoidance of threatening emotions. Role of therapist to create a mirror; supportive emotional climate in which client feels understood, accepted and values. Carl rogers: client-centered therapy, the client knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, and what experiences have been deeply buried , empathetic listening, nondirective except with a severe pathology. Behavior learned primarily though conditioning and reinforcement. Psychopathology caused by maladaptive responses to situation. Intervention focuses on specific overt behaviors, triggering antecedents and their reinforcing consequences. Therapist becomes the coach helping to identify, plan conditions maintaining them. Mary cover jones: peter"s fear of rabbits treated with modeling and direct condition. Thinking is learning and mediates stimulus/response relationships. Pathology result of learned maladaptive conditions, particularly about self.
