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D015928. [ edit on Wikidata] Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy [ 1 ][ 2 ] that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, primarily depression, PTSD and anxiety disorders. [ 3 ] Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions (such as thoughts, beliefs, and ...
Not to be confused with Beck's triad (cardiology). A diagram showing Beck's cognitive triad. Beck's cognitive triad, also known as the negative triad,[1][2]is a cognitive-therapeutic view of the three key elements of a person's belief system present in depression. It was proposed by Aaron Beckin 1967.[3]
Cognitive therapy (CT) is a type of psychotherapy developed by American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck. CT is one therapeutic approach within the larger group of cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT) and was first expounded by Beck in the 1960s. Cognitive therapy is based on the cognitive model, which states that thoughts, feelings and behavior are ...
Aaron Temkin Beck (July 18, 1921 – November 1, 2021) was an American psychiatrist who was a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. [1][2] He is regarded as the father of cognitive therapy [1][2][3] and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). [4] His pioneering methods are widely used in the treatment of ...
The cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy (CBASP) is a talking therapy, a synthesis model of interpersonal and cognitive and behavioral therapies developed by James P. McCullough Jr. of Virginia Commonwealth University specifically for the treatment of all varieties of DSM-IV chronic depression. [1][2] McCullough writes that ...
Watson and Clark (1991) proposed the Tripartite Model of Anxiety and Depression to help explain the comorbidity between anxious and depressive symptoms and disorders. [ 1 ] This model divides the symptoms of anxiety and depression into three groups: negative affect, positive affect and physiological hyperarousal. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] These three ...
e. Models of abnormality are general hypotheses as to the nature of psychological abnormalities. The four main models to explain psychological abnormality are the biological, behavioural, cognitive, and psychodynamic models. They all attempt to explain the causes and treatments for all psychological illnesses, and all from a different approach.
Behaviour therapy or behavioural psychotherapy is a broad term referring to clinical psychotherapy that uses techniques derived from behaviourism and/or cognitive psychology. It looks at specific, learned behaviours and how the environment, or other people's mental states, influences those behaviours, and consists of techniques based on ...