TREATMENT OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
THERAPY AND TREATMENT
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identify the client’s irrational beliefs and provide alternative ways of thinking.
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provide unconditional positive regard so that the healthy growth-promoting tendencies of the client may be activated.
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provide a model of effective functioning and reinforce the client for positive changes.
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prescribe psychoactive drugs that can reduce the level of psychotic ideation.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The therapist assists the patient in identifying specific distortions (using cognitive assessment) and biases in thinking and provides guidance on how to change this thinking.
Detailed explanation-2: -The goal is to help people first become aware. Then they learn to control their thought patterns so they are less harmful to their mental health and less disruptive to their life.
Detailed explanation-3: -Beck’s Cognitive Therapy The patient and therapist will then work together to challenge these irrational thoughts, by discussing evidence for and against them. The patient will be encourage to test the validity of their negative thoughts and may be set homework, to challenge and test their negative thoughts.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) helps clients examine how their thoughts affect their behavior. It aims to change cognitive distortions and self-defeating behaviors.