A. T. Beck's Psychodynamic Approach

It is widely known that unhelpful thinking in the form of dysfunctional beliefs and/or cognitive distortions is just like any other automatically occurring bad habit; with practice and effort, people can become more aware of what is happening in their minds and change how they are thinking for the better. Cognitive restructuring therapy, also known as cognitive reframing, is a technique drawn from cognitive therapy that can help people identify, challenge and alter stress-inducing thought patterns and beliefs. The end goal of cognitive restructuring is to enable people to replace stress-inducing thought habits with more accurate and less rigid (and therefore less stress-inducing) thinking habits. However as suggest cognitive restructuring was
One drawback of this technique however as suggested is that it is somewhat difficult for people to learn it in a self-help mode (without the assistance of a therapist). Nonetheless, as assumed that A. T. Beck’s cognitive therapy (CT) has made a substantial contribution to current evidence-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for a variety of psychiatric disorders, most notably depression, anxiety, personality disorders, and, more recently, psychosis. A. T. Beck’s (1987, 1996) cognitive model postulates that biased self relevant thoughts, evaluations, and beliefs are key contributors to the development and persistence of psychopathological states. The biased thoughts and appraisals that characterize psychopathology are derived from maladaptive mental representations of reality stored in memory structures called schemas. Schematic content or beliefs organize and guide the selection, encoding, and retrieval of information. Given their central role as progenitors of a biased and maladaptive information processing apparatus, the cognitive model considers schematic change essential for significant and enduring symptom reduction (A. T. Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979; D. A. Clark, Beck, & Alford,