COGNITIVE THERAPY

Cognitive Therapy Depression

Introduction

Aaron Beck - the pioneer of cognitive therapy and a prominent specialist in the treatment of depression. Degree of Doctor of Medicine he received in 1946 from Yale University and is now a professor of psychiatry and a professor teaching graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he freelance professor of psychiatry at Temple University.

Beck - author of numerous books about the application of cognitive therapy for the prevention of suicide and emotional problems: depression, anxiety, phobias. More than 150 papers Beck were published in scientific journals. He received the award of the American Psychiatric Association, American psychiatric Association and the American Association of Suicidology.

Beck talks about the basics of the theory and practice of cognitive therapy. Particular attention in his speech, he pays the dynamics of depression and anxiety. In addition, the author talks about the role of the therapist in the treatment process and mechanisms for effective psychotherapy.

Access to psychotherapy is limited to psychopathology (eg agoraphobia), physicaldisability, professional or social constraints and / or residency permits for nder-served areas. For thesepopulations, interventions delivered via remote communication technologies (eg, telephone, internet) may be more appropriate. Nevertheless, re-oncerns, that such delivery can influencethe therapeutic relationship and thus reduce the effectiveness of therapy. This review aims to determinethe clinical efficacy emotely ommunicated, therapist-delivered psychotherapy.

Definition of cognitive therapy

Cognitive therapy - a short, focused form of psychotherapy effects, created after the relationship was found between habitual the thinking (cognitive) error and psychological disorders. Structural theory of cognitive therapy is associated with cognitive psychology, the theory of information processing, social psychology, evolutionary biology and psychoanalysis. At the heart of cognitive therapy based on the following principle: the feelings and acts of man depend on how he structures the information about what's happening with it (for example, when a person believes that a certain situation constitutes a threat to him, he feels anxious and try to avoid the danger) (Beck, 1979, 17).

Cognitions (thoughts) - verbal or visual units in the stream of human consciousness - are associated with their underlying beliefs, attitudes and perceptions. The patient can judge yourself too harshly because of the fact that he was confident in his own inferiority, he may be unable to develop a plan or strategy for solving the problem, because he considers himself helpless, or else a person can make inferences based on the belief that it Anyway fail (1988, Trower, 52).

Cognitive therapy, distinctive features are active, structured and concise, effectively used in treating depression, anxiety, phobias, psychosomatic disorders, eating disorders and chronic pain. A combination of verbal techniques and techniques of behavioral modification used in the cognitive model of psychopathology. Techniques are built in such a way as to help the patient to detect and correct the distorting reality representation and dysfunctional beliefs that underlie cognition. Improvement in the patients is due to the fact that their thinking and behavior in the solution of psychological and situational problems become more realistic and adaptive (Selmi, 1982, 31).

Model Of Abnormal Behavior

Psychopathological model of cognitive therapy based on the following premise: excessive dysfunctional reaction - this ...