} Behavioral Therapy: helps the client weaken the connections between troublesome situations and habitual reactions to them.
◦ Reactions such as fear, depression or rage, and other self-defeating or self-damaging behavior.
} Cognitive Therapy: teaches the client how certain thinking patterns are causing the client's symptoms.
◦ Distorted picture of what's going on in the client's life and making the client feel anxious, deressed or angry for unsuported reasons or provoking the client into ill-chosen actions.
} Therapist and client collaborate to understand the client's behavior in context:
Situational factors
Thoughts
Feelings
Expected outcomes
| } The Client learns and applies new coping skills to replace maladaptive thoughts & behaviors and improve outcomes. } The thing that upsets people is not what happens but what they think it means } People - all people- not just therapy clients, routinely distress themselves and others with arbitrary interpretations of what is going on. } People also react differently depending on the overriding current emotion } A person's behaviors reinforce the maladaptive thoughts & feelings |