Cognitive load

Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective Aetiology of depression is multifactorial, with risk factors including low levels of parental warmth, high levels of family hostility, abuse and poverty (Gledhill & Hodes, 2010). Environment, cognitive and behavior are significant factors that cause the onset and duration of depression (Carvalho, Trent, & Hopko, 2011). Depression can affect all aspects of life, and may even lead to more serious problems including suicide. Although there is still a…

The theory of speech act was originally proposed by British philosopher J.L. Austin, and later American philosopher Searle made further improvements to this theory. The theory of speech act begins by studying the functions of everyday language. Austin believes that the unit of verbal communication is not a sentence, but a verbal behavior through sentences, such as thanks, warnings, promises, and so on. Austin divides speech acts into three categories: intra-behavioral behavior, illocutionary…

this conclusion. In fact, Allushi states that the interpreter undergoes through rapid actions. These rapid actions are clarified as receiving, decoding, encoding and emitting a message. It is easy to grasp that interpreters go through heavy loads of cognitive…

Cognitive Behavior Therapy techniques in conjunction with anti-psychotic medication have demonstrated effectiveness in treating positive and negative symptoms associated with schizophrenia. However, several studies suggest that CBT does not reduce relapse and readmission compared to standard care. The authors argue helping psychotic patients narrate their life stories may help reduce relapse and readmission rate. The authors outline a Narrative Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Clinicians…

The patient demonstrates acceptable cognitive processes for his age group, but the effects of bullying could lead to great insecurities and requires intervention. An intervention would be to make sure that the school is aware of the bullying. In addition the parents should monitor that the bullies…

Why Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Growing up, I had always wanted to be a doctor. I worked hard in school, networked, and planned out my entire life by eighth grade what I wanted to do. Eventually in high school, I became anxious and depressed. My life plan of becoming a doctor destroyed the schema I had for my world. I attended counseling with a cognitive behaviorist and fell in love with the profession. As my worries became less and I took back the world that was rightfully mine, I also…

Introduction Imaginative escape is creation of images in the head, like remembering how your young life was. Visualization of the past happenings is eminent in these stories. Imagination is much eminent in the story of Araby. The narrator is filled with thoughts of his friend’s sister though the girl knows little about it as the narrator doesn’t talk much with the girl, he fears expressing his secret love to her. Physical escape is simply to put what you have imagined into action. It is…

What is Strategic Family Therapy? Refined and mastered by Jay Haley, Strategic Family Therapy (STF) is a form therapy that seeks to address specific problems in a shorter period of time unlike other forms intensive therapeutic treatments. However, it is considered as one of the major treatment models of both family and brief psychotherapy. The major difference in this style of therapy compared to others is that the therapist takes the role of responsibility. The Mental Research Institute…

Transference Focused Therapy Another form of treatment that is commonly used for borderline personality disorder is transference focused psychotherapy. TFP is a modified psychodynamic psychotherapy (a form of depth psychology of which the primary focus is to reveal the client’s unconscious, deep-rooted feelings in order to make it possible to resolve them). TFP combines methods of standard psychoanalytic technique (such as attention to unconscious processes, focusing on transference, and…

case, the therapist and client cooperatively developed a list of concerns in which three important issues were emphasized to focus on, specifically, anger. They both agreed on the target, problem. Additionally, the therapist introduced Karen to cognitive and behavioral skills as well as role-play and behavioral experiment to promote the practice of the learned skills to specific life situations. The therapist has also provided homework assignment. As a result, the client was able to learn how to…