NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

Neuropsychology

Neuropsychology

Method to understand human behaviour

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT is a psychotherapeutic approach for treating psychiatric illnesses like mood disorders for example, depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias and insomnia (British Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapies, 2005). Like other psychotherapeutic interventions, it requires the client to attend a certain number of fixed sessions with the therapist. These can range from 5 to 20 weekly or fortnightly sessions, each lasting from 30 to 60 minutes each.

Development of stages of cognitive development is considered as an important contribution of Piaget in the development of cognitive theory. According to Piaget four crucial stages of cognitive development are sensor motor, preoperational, concrete operations and formal operations. In 1963, Bandura and Walters expanded cognitive learning theory principles through observational learning and resultant amplification. Bandura's concept of self-efficacy became a source of understanding learning. He presented this self-efficacy concept in 1977, when he refuted the traditional learning theory.

Cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy (cognitive-behavioural therapy or, CBT) are a group of treatments of mental disorders (phobias, addictions, psychosis, depression, anxiety), which share an, approach in which the therapy must be based on knowledge derived of scientific psychology and obey relatively standardized protocols whose validity is based on substantial evidence. The TCC to address the special difficulties of the patient in the here and now "through practical exercises focused on observable symptoms through behaviour and coaching by the therapist who seeks to intervene on mental processes also known as cognitive processes, conscious or not, considered the origin of emotions and their disorders. Standardizing the practice of CBT has contributed to the recognition of their effectiveness by their reproducibility is a requirement of the scientific process (Butler, 2000).

Cognitive therapy, as an application of cognitive psychology, maintains a focus on psychological conception of mental processes (such as reasoning, memory and attention) and from an intrapsychic point of view (understanding that there is something comparable in the mind of some peoples others). For example, it has been successful in creating test / questionnaire in this regard, with various applications of various kinds. The behaviour therapy, however, focuses on the mental process, but in their conduct (understood as an act of setting interdependent with the environment and not just a motor response). For this reason, behaviour therapy does not fit with what you have intrapsychic interpretations of cognitive therapy, and since this model only the environment determines behaviour, so that cognitive concepts help to understand the behaviour, but could not explain this (see axiom). Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is based on a model that emphasizes the interrelatedness of behaviour, cognition, emotion and contextual factors. Basic to the cognitive-behavioural model is the notion that cognition (e.g. attitudes, expectancies, attributions, self-talk, beliefs, schemata) is central to understanding and hence producing change in effect and behaviour. The CBT model recognizes the importance of learning, the influence of contingencies and models in the individual's environment, and the role of the individual's social and interpersonal context in the development and improvement of ...