cog beh therapy

A change in the environment = a change of possible rewards = a change of behaviour.

Cognitive revolution brought a change as behavioural theory did not account for the human thinking factor.

Seligman – with his theory of learned helplessness - normally any organism will learn to avoid pain, but after teaching an animal there was no escape there is no response. It learned to become helpless, which appears to be similar in depression sufferers. Ie: if we learn there is nothing we can do then we do nothing.

Beck – using cognitive language/theory to explain learned helplessness describes it as

not knowing a way to think differently

perceiving the world in an inaccurate way

which means depressed people tend not to act

CBT – is aimed at getting people to act and challenge false thinking.

CBT is systematic and structured. It has specific goals and can be very specific in its treatment of each individual.

The main goal is CONTROL, teaching the person to

2)Provides a framework for evaluation. Ie: measurable evidence for change. This evaluation is easy because it is well documented.

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