Transcript Document 9652529

Matakuliah
Tahun
: L0332 – Psikologi Konseling
: 2009
Cognitive Therapy
Pertemuan 09
PERTEMUAN 9
Cognitive Therapy
Cognitive Therapy
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Aaron Beck: Cognitive therapy aims to adjust information-processing
and initiate positive change in all systems by acting through the
cognitive system
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Read p. 329-331
Basic Concept
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Aaron Beck: In the theory of cognitive therapy, the nature and function
of information processing (i.e. The assignment of meaning) constitute
the key to understanding maladaptive behaviour and positive
therapeutic processes
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Cognition is defined as that function that involves inferences about
one’s experiences and about the occurrence and control of future
events
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Humans have the capacity both for primal/primitive and for higher
level cognitive processing
Basic Concept
read: p. 331-335
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Schema
Modes
Cognitive Vulnerability
Automatic thoughts
Cognitive distortions
Evolutionary and genetic factors
Genetic factor
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Childhood abuse and later cognitive vulnerability (read p. 337)
Basic Concept
read: p. 339
When people’s cognitive vulnerabilities get activated and their cognitive
processes go awry, why do they stay that way?
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Failure to turn off predominant modes
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Inability to reality-test dysfunctional interpretations
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Resistance to change
Basic Concept
read: p. 339
Cognitive Models:
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Cognitive model of depression
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Cognitive model of anxiety disorders
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Cognitive model of distressed couple relationships
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Cognitive model of personality disorders
THERAPY
read: p. 343
Aaron Beck: Cognitive therapy initially addresses symptom relief, but its
ultimate goals are to remove systematic biases in thinking and modify the
core beliefs that predispose the person to future distress
Therapeutic Goals: aims explicitly to reenergize the reality-testing system
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Cognitive therapy teaches clients adaptive meta-cognition –how to
think about their thinking—so that they can correct faulty cognitive
processing and develop assumptions that allow them to cope.
Process Therapy:
The therapeutic relationship:
THERAPY
read: p. 346 - 354
Therapeutic interventions:
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Cognitive intervention
Behavioural intervention