COGNITIVEBEHAVIORAL PSYCHOTHERAPY Max Palmer WHAT IS COGNITIVE THERAPY
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOTHERAPY Max Palmer
WHAT IS COGNITIVE THERAPY? First coined by American psychologist Ulric Neisser Cognition is our mental process, or thoughts By changing our thoughts, we change our emotions By changing emotions, we can return to happiness These are the founding concepts of cognitive therapy Piaget was a key in it’s early development
PIAGET’S THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Stage Age Characteristics of Development Sensorimotor 0 -2 Child uses sensory organs to develop knowledge Begins realization the nature of cause-and-effect relationships Begins to use languages as a means of communication Object permanence Preoperational 2 -7 Understanding of symbolism and language Egocentricity Law of Conservation Concrete 7 -11 Understands the seven forms of conservation: number, length, liquid. Mass, weight, area, and volume Egocentricity degrades Formal Operations 12+ Begins hypothetical and deductive rational Demonstrates understanding of abstract concepts
WHAT IS BEHAVIORAL THERAPY? School of psychology aimed at adjusting behavior Uses learning theory the treat disorders Reinforces objective behaviors while abolishes undesired behaviors B. F. Skinner is the key contributor the school
HOW DOES OPERANT CONDITIONING EFFECT BEHAVIORAL THERAPY?
THEN WHAT IS COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY? A means of treating psychopathologies such as: � Anxiety The mechanism is psychotherapy It achieves its ends through changing: � Mood � Dialogue � Personality � Communication � Eating � Behavior � Substance � Sexual � Etc. abuse � Etc.
WHAT IS PSYCHOTHERAPY? Uses patient-therapist interaction to seek treatment Existed since the B. C. E. Re-introduced by Freud Grown and developed dramatically since his work
THE ENDS: HAPPINESS AND LIFE SATISFACTION Where Does Our Happiness Come From? Genetic Set Point Intentional Activities Life Circumstances Sonja Lyubomisky, 2008
WHAT DETERMINES YOUR HAPPINESS? WHAT CAN YOU DO TO IMPROVE IT? WHAT METHODS THAT WE EVALUATED COULD HELP? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN YOU LEAVE TODAY?
SOURCES http: //www. edbatista. com/2010/09/happiness. html British Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapies B. F. Skinner, The Origins of Cognitive Thought, 1989 Clark, David M; Science and Practive of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Oxford University Press Psychology: Making Connections by Gregory Feist and Erika Rosenberg. 2009 Schucnk Dale H. Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective, 1991
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