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1.stresses thinking, judging, deciding, analyzing, and doing.
2. assumes that cognition, emotions, and behaviors interact and have a reciprocal cause and effect relationship.
3. highly didactic, very directive, and concerned as much with thinking as with feelings.
4. emotions stem mainly from our beliefs, evaluations, interpretations, and reactions of life situations |
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| clients should learn to identify interplay of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as well as identify and dispute any irrational beliefs that are maintained by self indoctrination, use effective and rational cognitions, stop absolute thinking, blaming, and repeating false beliefs |
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1. is biosocial; biological and cultural tendency to think crookedly and needlessly disturb ourselves.
2. born with potential for both irrational and rational thinking.
3.behavior is maintained through our disturbing beliefs of oneself and self talk and blame
4. we have the capacity to change our cognitive, emotive, and behavioral processes. |
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| ABC theory of personality |
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| activating event leads to consequences, emotional/behaviors but our reaction to those consequences is determined by our belief. therapist has to dispute belief as a form of intervention and challenge new ways of thinking, effective philosophy leads to change in feelings/belief about oneself. |
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| irrational ideas lead to self defeating behavior. ex) "I must have love or approval... I must perform important tasks perfectly... If I don't get what I want, life is terrible and over" |
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