ANTONAIA SUDDUTH JAMES MARSHALL SECTION 3 COGNITIVE & BEHAVIOR THEORIES.
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ANTONAIA SUDDUTH JAMES MARSHALL SECTION 3 COGNITIVE & BEHAVIOR THEORIES
Transcript of ANTONAIA SUDDUTH JAMES MARSHALL SECTION 3 COGNITIVE & BEHAVIOR THEORIES.
ANTONAIA SUDDUTHJAMES MARSHALL
SECTION 3COGNITIVE & BEHAVIOR
THEORIES
Cognitive Therapy
According to psychologists, all of the theories follow one or more of 3 principles:
1. Discomformation: Clients may be confronted with evidence that directly contradicts their existing beliefs
2. Reconceptulization: Clients work towards alternative belief system to explain their experiences or current observations.
3. Insight: Clients work toward understanding and deriving new or revised beliefs.
Rational-Emotional Therapy (RET)
ALBERT ELLIS developed a form of therapy called Rational-Emotional Therapy.
In Psychology Today, they refer him as the greatest psychologist living.
He believed people behaved in rational ways.
The goal of RET is to correct false and self-defeating beliefs
RET cont.
Ellis taught that behaviors were like ABC’s:(A)-ACTIVATING EVENT
Ex: criticism(B)-BELIEF
Ex: “I must be loved by everyone to be happy”
(C)- CONSEQUENT EMOTIONEx: Unhappiness
**THERAPISTS WANT TO CHANGE LETTER (B)**
Beck’s Cognitive Therapy
AARON BECK’s main focus was on the illogical thought process.
He used persuasion to change beliefsThe goal was to change the way people think.Sometimes Beck would have clients test their
own belief or give them homework assignments to assess their true values of their beliefs.
REFLECTION
1. What was 1 of the 3 principles of cognitive therapy?
2. What is RET and who is the founder of it?3. What are the ABC’s?4. What the goal of RET?5. What was BECK’s main goal?
ANSWERS
1. ANSWER MAY VARY2. RATIONAL-EMOTIONAL THERAPY; ALBERT
ELLIS3. (A)-ACTIVATING EVENT
(B)-BELIEF (C)-CONSEQUENT EMOTION
4. TO CORRECT FALSE AND SELF-DEFEATING BELIEFS
5. TO CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE THINK.
New Info.
Albert Ellis is the father of Cognitive-Behavioral therapy
The word “belief” means a conviction in the truth, actuality, or validity of something.
After the ABC’s there is a D and E: DISPUTES OR ARGUMENTS AGAINST BELIEFS & NEW EFFECT.
Aaron beck is a psychiatrist
References
http://psychcentral.com/lib/2009/rational-emotive-behavior-therapy/all/1/
