Psychology / Unit 12 Psych 1403 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Cognitive Therapy
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The idea
Cognitive therapy treats disorders by identifying and testing the distorted thought patterns that maintain them.
In practice
A person who reads one criticism as proof of total failure examines the evidence for and against that reading.
Where people slip
Cognitive therapy tests beliefs rather than replacing them with positive ones. It is not positive thinking.
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