PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cognitive Therapy, Interrupt, Therapeutic Relationship

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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Different therapeutic approaches - changing the way you judge urselves, aspects of your life and feeling a lot less depresses. Problem: is a function of the way you think. Use of homework exercises e. g. challenging your negative thoughts . Cognitive-behaviour therapy (cbt): - cognitive therapy is around cognition, cbt took both, behaviour and cognition therapy. Problem: is a function of the way you think and is maintained through maladaptive behaviours - the behaviours are going to be part of the target. Goal: healthy thinking and healthy behaviours - http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=gqw8p9wpweq&feature=related. Training in meditation and in challenging negative thoughts. Found to reduce depressive relapses - a way to make yourself less vulnerable in the future. Bring attention to the here and now - it"s very much- if you have control of your emotions. Stop identification with irrational beliefs - you don"t associate the self with these irrational beliefs.