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Week 4 Cognitive Approaches to Understanding Psychopathology (Automatic vs…
Week 4 Cognitive Approaches to Understanding Psychopathology
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 - Beck (1976)
the cognitive model- the way the brain processes information
Processes of Interest: memory. conditioning,attention, judgement, perceptual priming, decision making
Outputs of Interest: emotion and behaviour
Automatic vs Controlled Processing
A lot of brain function is automatic, can't change if don't know we do it.
Top-down processing - eg social setting - break down what happens, look at bias, break down of the parts of what is going to happen
Then modify thinking
Levels of Cognition
single level is inadequate, many components,, conscious - unconscious, content vs process, different types of information may be processed by specialised "modules" eg face processing
Conscious VS Unconscious
unconscious accepted in this model, however dramatic transformation of information is not assumed
unconscious serves to reduce processing demands,eliminate redundant info
Cognitive Therapy - Ellis (1962) - Beck (1967)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
seeks to identify maladaptive patterns of thinking and modify these to produce positive emotional and behavioural outcomes
Effective for a wide range of symptoms disorders, personality disorders, effective for a range of subclinical problems, related to stress and anger, skills training issues - parenting skills, relationship skills, relapse prevention
