Cognitive‚ Cognitive Behavioral and Reality Theory � PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �1� Cognitive‚ Cognitive Behavioral‚ and Reality Theory PCN 500 Cognitive‚ Cognitive Behavioral‚ and Reality Theory Overview There are many definitions of counseling‚ but most share the same idea: it is when one person helps another. To me counseling represents one word more than any other: Change. One person is unhappy with some area of their life and wants it to change while the other person helps to facilitate that change
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The article for this journal review is Interventions that Apply Scripture in Psychotherapy authored by Garzon in 2005. It discusses ways in which Christian therapists can incorporate scriptures in counseling to create an effective spiritual healing on the clients by utilizing fictitious case study of a 30 year old man named “George”‚ to analyze various steps of the interventions. According to the writer the two main purposes of the journal are: first‚ to create awareness among the Christians therapists
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APPROACHES TO PSYCHOLOGY Theories Explaining Human Behavior Human Behavior/Little Psychoanalytic / Psychodynamic : Behavior is a result of unconscious forces‚ hidden aggressive tendencies‚ sexual impulses and desires often from early childhood. These impulses live below the surface of consciousness and from there control our everyday behavior in ways that we are not aware of. Dreams may reflect what is going on in the unconscious. Currently‚ the interest in unconscious processes does
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Working or dealing with children who have emotional or behavioral disturbances is not easy. “It is important when working with these children that non pharmaceutical approaches are used first to help them manage or cope through their behaviors” Dr. Speicher says. She continues to say medications are not “cures” to fixing a child’s behavior‚ and that children still need to
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Behaviourism approach‚ this approach has assumptions of that we’re all born a “tabula Rosa”- a blank state‚ it also says that we learn through 2 types of “conditioning” • Classical conditioning • Operant conditioning Classical conditioning is a basic form of learning in which simple responses are associated with new stimuli. An experiment that shows classical conditioning is the Little Albert Experiment (Phobias). This experiment was to show that you can change a person not fearing anything into
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With ideas opposite psychodynamic approaches‚ Beck concluded the key to therapy was in a patients’ cognition‚ which is the way we perceive‚ interpret‚ and attribute meaning. Beck’s preliminary focus was on depression and developed a list of "errors" in thinking that he suggested could cause or maintain depression‚ including "arbitrary inference‚ selective abstraction‚ over-generalization‚ and magnification (of negatives) and minimization (of positives)." He later expanded his focus on anxiety disorders
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The psychodynamic perspective focuses on the role of the unconscious mind in the development of personality and was studied by Sigmund Freud. Present when you were an infant‚ the first and most primitive part of the personality would be called the id. Id means that you did whatever you pleased whenever you wanted. For example‚ you cried when you wanted‚ you peed and pooped whenever‚ and you slept when you wanted. As you begin to grow‚ your parents began to deny your every wish. For instance
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a.a. a few people develop some sense of inferiority a.b. masculine protest - a striving for power is common to both sexes * a.c. sexual pleasure is the prime motivator of behavior a.d. individual interest is more important than social interest 8. Which of the following are true of Adlerian psychology? a. behavior is mechanistic b. one’s level of social interest is not a good measure of mental health c. pronounced egocentricity leads to good adjustment d. persons feeling inferior
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is a mood disorder and the biomedical model portrays one way in which it can be understood. The biomedical model focuses on biological factors alone in an attempt to explain an illness or a disorder. It describes illnesses as disturbances within the human body that can be altered and corrected. Very unlike the biopsychosocial model‚ it doesn’t include other factors that may contribute to a disorder such as their psychological state or their social context. The biomedical model focuses on activities
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Running Head: COGNITIVE INTERVENTIONS Cognitive Interventions Angie Skowronski University of Phoenix Cognitive Interventions There are several different cognitive interventions that are used for many different reasons. When it comes to behavioral issues‚ there is a form of psychotherapy that is commonly used called cognitive behavioral therapy (National Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapists‚ 2007). Cognitive therapy can be combined with other forms of therapy to completely treat
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