PSY3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Systematic Desensitization, Aversion Therapy, Behaviour Therapy
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Cbt: the most common therapy, most empirically based, based on behavioural principles and then the cognition stuff was added after that. Make sure they have a relaxation technique they can use when they need it. Start w/least fear inducing and relax them and work way up: virtual reality- use this w/the flooding, systematic desensitisation etc, aversion therapy. Albert bandura: rejects the title of being lumped in w/the behaviourists because he was more into cognition, self-efficacy- needs to be high. Albert ellis- rational emotive behavioural therapy: the thinking is everything not just the behaviour, born for potential for rational and irrational thinking, we are always blaming ourselves, someone else or circumstances, trying to educate the client. Be(cid:272)k"s (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e therapy: fo(cid:272)us is o(cid:374) depressio(cid:374) (cid:894)ellis" (cid:449)as a(cid:271)out (cid:449)hat (cid:449)as goi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) i(cid:374) ge(cid:374)eral(cid:895, expected to do things in between sessions (a new thing)