Contributions of cognitive theory to new behavioral treatments

Article Abstract:

The word cognition can be applied to mean a process, an event or a thing, with the concept of cognition applied to a range of phenomena by cognitive, social and clinical psychologists. Cognition can be treated as an object, an experience or the ongoing operation of a system. The three concepts are incompatible but may be used indiscriminately by researchers. Steven C. Hayes and Elizabeth V. Gifford seek to study cognition and experiential avoidance as a process. Three research examples are used to demonstrate how cognitive science methodology could potentially be used to help develop new behavioral treatments.

Analysis, Cognition, Cognitive therapy

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The mutual enrichment of basic and applied research in psychological science and practice

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Several interesting issues were raised by psychologists during discussions held in workshops run by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse. Key issues included the suggestion that human language has properties which make it difficult to change pathological behavior, the legitimate use of rational decision making and cognition in behavior therapy, the need for research into the efficacy of allowing patients to express their concerns, the reduction in patients' fear of aversive events through exposure and the adoption of a nonachievement attitude in goal achievement.

Psychological aspects, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Drug abuse, Psychologists

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Behavioral therapy development and psychological science: reinforcing the bond

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Better knowledge can be obtained of behavioral change, behavior and therapeutic interventions through the extension of the bond between basic behavioural science and research of behavioral therapy development. Behavioural therapy development research could directly benefit from research in areas such as experimental, developmental, personality, social and cognitive psychology. The National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse is holding a number of workshops so that researchers from various fields of psychological science can swap ideas.

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