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 ID: 272844
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Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy
Max PalmerSlide2
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 emotionsBy changing emotions, we can return to happinessThese are the founding concepts of cognitive therapyPiaget was a key in it’s early development
Jean Piaget
(1896-1980)Slide3
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
Stage
Age
Characteristics of Development
Sensorimotor0-2Child uses sensory organs to develop knowledgeBegins realization the nature of cause-and-effect relationshipsBegins to use languages as a means of communicationObject 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 conceptsSlide4
What is Behavioral Therapy?
School of psychology aimed at adjusting behavior
Uses learning theory the treat disorders
Reinforces objective behaviors while abolishes undesired behaviorsB.F. Skinner is the key contributor the schoolSlide5
How does Operant Conditioning effect Behavioral Therapy?Slide6
Then What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
A means of treating psychopathologies such as:
Anxiety
MoodPersonalityEatingSubstance abuseSexualEtc.
The mechanism is psychotherapyIt achieves its ends through changing:DialogueCommunicationBehaviorEtc.Slide7
What is Psychotherapy?
Uses patient-therapist interaction to seek treatment
Existed since the B.C.E.
Re-introduced by FreudGrown and developed dramatically since his workSlide8
The Ends: Happiness and Life Satisfaction
Sonja Lyubomisky, 2008Slide9
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?Slide10
Sources
http://www.edbatista.com/2010/09/happiness.html
British Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapies
B.F. Skinner, The Origins of Cognitive Thought,1989Clark, David M; Science and Practive of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Oxford University PressPsychology: Making Connections by Gregory Feist and Erika Rosenberg. 2009Schucnk
Dale H. Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective, 1991