Cognitive Therapy

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Cognitive Therapy

• Aaron Beck

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Thoughts

• Cognitive therapy may offer an opportunity for
  a rapprochement between psychodynamic therapy and
  behavior therapy.
• In many ways it provides a common ground for
  these two disciplines (C W, p. 269).

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Cognitive

• Cognitive therapy aims to adjust
  information-processing and initiate positive
  change in all systems by acting through the
  cognitive system (Corsini Wedding, 2001, p.
  241).

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Thoughts

• With cognitive therapy, the therapist and the
  client collaboratively weave a tapestry that
  tells the story of the development of the
  patients disorder (Corsini Wedding, p. 242).

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Thoughts

• The phenomena of psychopathology (but not
  necessarily the cause) are on the same continuum
  as normal emotional reactions, but they are
  manifested in exaggerated and persistent ways (C
  W, p. 248).

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Thoughts

• Each individual has a set of idiosyncratic
  vulnerabilities and sensitivities that predispose
  him or her to psychological distress. These
  vulnerabilities appear to be related to
  personality structure (C W, p. 249).

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Thoughts

• Psychological distress is ultimately caused by
  many innate, biological, developmental and
  environmental factors interacting with one
  another, and so there is no single cause of
  psychopathology (Corsini Wedding, p. 250).

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Websites

• Http//www.fenichel.com/Beck-Ellis.shtml
• Http//beckinstitute.org
• Http//mail.med.upenn.edu/abeck/