PSYC 408 Chapter Notes - Chapter Beck chapter lecture 8: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Cognitive Therapy
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Psyc408: lecture 8: reading notes: introduction to cognitive. Beck conducted research on psychoanalysis, and found that it wasn"t effective. This led him to search for other explanations of depression. He identified distorted, negative cognition (thoughts and beliefs) as a primary feature of depression, and developed a short-term treatment. In this treatment, the target was reality testing patients" depressed thinking. Beck developed cognitive therapy, which cannot be used synonymously with cognitive behavioural therapy. Beck"s psychotherapy was short, present focused, and wanted to solve current problems and modify dysfunctional thinking and behaviour. In all forms of cognitive behaviour therapy, treatment is based on a cognitive formulation, the beliefs and behavioural strategies that characterize a specific disorder. The therapist finds ways to modify the patient"s thinking and belief system to bring about enduring emotional and behavioural change. (change thought and belief to subsequently modify emotional and behavioral response) There are a number of forms of cognitive behaviour therapy that share similar characteristics with.
