PSYC 408 Chapter Notes - Chapter lecture 9 reading : Dysphoria, Cognitive Model, Therapeutic Relationship
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Cognitive conceptualization provides the framework for understanding a patient. The therapist begins by constructing a conceptualization during the first contact with the patient, and it continues to be refined throughout treatment. You can learn to identify your automatic thoughts by attending to your shifts in affect, behaviour, and physiology. Once you identify your thoughts, you can evaluate the validity of your thinking. When dysfunctional thoughts are subjected to objective reflection, one"s emotions, behaviours, and physiological reactions generally change. Beginning in childhood, people develop ideas about themselves, other people, and the world. It is also important to identify and process positive data in a straight-forward way: core beliefs are the most fundamental level of belief they are global, rigid, and overgeneralized. Automatic thoughts - situation specific and may be considered the most superficial level of cognition. Core beliefs influence the development of intermediate beliefs.
