Cognitive TherapyPertemuan 09

Matakuliah : L0332 – Psikologi KonselingTahun : 2009

PERTEMUAN 9

Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive Therapy

• Aaron Beck: Cognitive therapy aims to adjust information-processing and initiate positive change in all systems by acting through the cognitive system

• Read p. 329-331

Basic Concept

• 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

• Cognition is defined as that function that involves inferences about one’s experiences and about the occurrence and control of future events

• Humans have the capacity both for primal/primitive and for higher level cognitive processing

Basic Conceptread: p. 331-335

• Schema• Modes• Cognitive Vulnerability• Automatic thoughts• Cognitive distortions • Evolutionary and genetic factors• Genetic factor

• Childhood abuse and later cognitive vulnerability (read p. 337)

Basic Conceptread: p. 339

When people’s cognitive vulnerabilities get activated and their cognitive processes go awry, why do they stay that way?

• Failure to turn off predominant modes

• Inability to reality-test dysfunctional interpretations

• Resistance to change

Basic Conceptread: p. 339

Cognitive Models:

• Cognitive model of depression

• Cognitive model of anxiety disorders

• Cognitive model of distressed couple relationships

• Cognitive model of personality disorders

THERAPYread: 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

• 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:

THERAPYread: p. 346 - 354

Therapeutic interventions:

• Cognitive intervention• Behavioural intervention