COGNITIVE THERAPY TECHNIQUES Verbal techniques are used to explore the logic behind and the basis for specific conclusions, while behavioural techniques may be used to change behaviour and also to elicit more thoughts. For example, exposure therapy has value as … Continue reading →
COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: THERAPY IN ACTION Cognitive therapy is a learning experience in which the therapist plays an active role in helping the client uncover and modify distorted and unhelpful thinking. This in turn modifies the emotions to allow the client to … Continue reading →
Submodalities in NLP This post is to follow on from my post on Sensory Systems in NLP. There’s another, even more fundamental, level of the sensory systems. This is the level of submodalities. Each sense system (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory … Continue reading →
PRINCIPLES OF NLP If you ain’t got rapport you ain’t got nothing. You might as well not bother. Rapport is achieved by matching/mirroring (without mimicking), helping you to influence with integrity. To be an effective communicator/therapist you need three things: … Continue reading →
COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: COGNITIVE MODEL OF DEPRESSION According to Beck (1986), depression is characterised by the ‘cognitive triad’, reflecting the subject’s negative view of the self, the world, and the future. The depressed person sees himself or herself as deficient, inadequate, deserted … Continue reading →
COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: COGNITIONS AND EMOTIONS Cognitive therapy is based on the assumption that our emotions are very strongly linked to the way we think about situations and life events. Our schemata include attitudes and assumptions and are used to classify, interpret, … Continue reading →
COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE The therapeutic alliance is the collaboration between the therapist and client in psychotherapy or counselling. It has been claimed that this alliance is one of the most important aspects of the process, whichever techniques are used … Continue reading →
Karen Horney In line with Adler in particular, Karen Horney strongly believes in an innately constructive nature of the human condition. There is a natural tendency towards positive growth, or self-realisation. Only when this tendency is frustrated, again primarily by … Continue reading →
STRUCTURAL MODEL AND INSTINCT THEORY In line with his structural model, Sigmund Freud conceives of the human personality as evolving in three areas. He termed them id (broadly speaking, the biological), ego (the psychological) and superego (the sociological, or simply … Continue reading →
George Kelly George Kelly is the founder of personal construct psychology. Although his writings are not quite as voluminous as those of most of the other theorists studied on this course, his style has been credited as appealing: Let us … Continue reading →
