Therapy Pt2 Flashcards
Instead of waiting to treat mental illness, community psychologists look to prevent illnesses by
Looking at primary problems in communities and society
Community psychologists support programs that help eliminate
Unemployment, poverty, discrimination, and other demoralizing situations that have been highly correlated with mental illness
Overall goal of a community psychologist
Design preventive solutions so that potential problems don’t occur
Community psychologists focus of stress or diathesis in the “Stress-diathesis model?”
STRESS- Fix community
Most common illnesses treated in cognitive perspective
Depression Eating disorders Chronic pain Marital problems Anxiety disorders
Cognitive therapy assumes that Thoughts exist between
Events and responses
In cognitive therapy, a person’s response depends on how they
Interpret the situation
Goal of cognitive therapy
Teach people new and more REALISTIC, helpful, and adaptive patterns of thinking and acting
Want to see glass half-full instead of half-empty
Cognitive therapy
Two major therapists where cognition is a strong focus
Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy
Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Therapy
Rational emotive therapy is _____ ______ therapy
Cognitive behavioral
Beck believed the key to understanding depression was in an
Individual’s thought patterns
Beck argued that depressed people’s negative thought patterns and creation of negative schemas caused them to
Misinterpret the world which often caused them to feel worthless and incomplete
Beck’s interpretation on depressed people
Depressed people tend to view world with “dark sunglasses”
Arbitrary interference
Drawing negative conclusions from an event without any evidence
After an argument thinking “that person hates me”
Arbitrary interference
Dichotomous thinking
Irrational all or nothing thinking
“I cant be happy unless everyone likes me”
Dichotomous thinking
Beck developed a cognitive triad which looked at what person thinks about
1) self
2) world
3) Future
_________ people tended to have negative perceptions in a cognitive triad
Depressed
Theory of Explanatory Styles Effect on Depression
Martin Seligman
Martin Seligman- depressed people tend to explain negative external events with a
Negative explanatory style
Negative explanatory style: Depressed people view problems as 1) personal
They caused the negative events
Negative explanatory style: Depressed people view problems as 2) pervasive
The negative events will affect everything they do
