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	Cognitive distortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cognitive therapy and its variants traditionally identify ten cognitive distortions that maintain negative thinking and help to maintain negative emotions.
		Eliminating these distortions and negative thought is said to improve mood and discourage maladies such as depression and chronic anxiety.
		The process of learning to refute these distortions is called "cognitive restructuring".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cognitive_distortion (359 words)

	List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cognitive bias is distortion in the way we perceive reality (see also cognitive distortion).
		Some of these have been verified empirically in the field of psychology, others are considered general categories of bias.
		availability error - the distortion of one's perceptions of reality due to the tendency to remember one alternative outcome of a situation much more easily than another.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases (1236 words)

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		Cognitive distortions related to child abuse seem to occur for two reasons: (a) the victim’s psychological response to abuse and (b) the victim’s attempt to understand the abuse.
		Given, the relationships found between child abuse and both insecure attachment and cognitive distortion, the aims of the current study were: To test the proposition that attachment patterns (specifically, the model-of-self attachment dimension) and cognitive distortion indirectly effect the relationship between childhood trauma and later psychological adjustment (i.e., expression of trauma-related symptoms).
		The influence of cognition in the structural model (i.e., cognitive distortion alone and cognitive distortion via the influence of model-of-self) suggested that thought processes are the strongest predictor of symptoms.
	www.delphicentre.com.au /conference/2003papers/Browne.doc (4314 words)

	Behavior OnLine Forums - looking for cognitive distiorions scales
		Cognitions of 15 women with bulimia nervosa (mean age 20.1 yrs), 15 restrained eaters (mean age 19.5 yrs), and 15 non-eating disordered women (mean age 19.4 yrs) were assessed.
		Although this instrument may herald a new step in the domain of assessment of cognitive distortions, it is argued that future tests should tap automatic processing in an attempt to avoid contamination by social desirability factors.
		This distortion, termed "thought-shape fusion" (TSF), is said to occur when merely thinking about eating a forbidden food increases the person's estimate of their shape or weight, elicits a perception of moral wrongdoing and makes the person feel fat.
	www.behavior.net /bolforums/showthread.php?p=1578 (1716 words)

	Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology: Conceptions of Relationships in Children with Depressive and Aggressive Symptoms: ...
		Cognitive models focus on maladaptive or biased thought processes, whereas interpersonal models focus on social difficulties and stressful interpersonal environments as precipitants of psychopathology.
		Accordingly, cognitive models often presume that negative views of the self and the world represent inaccuracies or distortions in the appraisal of personal competencies and the social environment, whereas interpersonal models often presume that negative views of the self and the world represent accurate reflections of skill deficits and aversive social circumstances.
		Consequently, the negative perceptions characteristic of depressed children often are assumed to represent biases or distortions in thinking that are generalized from early adverse interpersonal encounters.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0902/is_1_29/ai_73085029 (1068 words)

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		Cognitive technique by which clients are urged to "reality test" their predictions and assumptions, looking for evidence much as is done in science.
		According to cognitive behaviorists, the process by which a person evaluates a stimulus in accordance with his or her memories, beliefs, and expectations before responding.
		An alliance between cognitive theory and behavioral theory which claims that people's actions are often responses not so much to external stimuli as to their own individual mental processing of those stimuli.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/007242298x/student_view0/chapter4/glossary.html (1322 words)

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		Cognition involves, at its foundation, a selection of one out of a complex repertory of possible responses to a sensory input, based on comparison with a learned internal representation of the outer world (e.g.
		Although, since it neglects behavioral factors, this is a distorting oversimplification, currently popular scientific paradigm involves examination of the `genetic code,' and in the 1970,s `language' was taken as the underlying model for a Theory of General Biology by Waddington (1972) at the famous Villa Serbellion meetings.
		While evolution is not a cognitive process, the critical roles of memory and `language', in the largest sense, create a formal parallel with cognition which we will exploit to some effect in the exploration of punctuated evolutionary process.
	www.ma.utexas.edu /mp_arc/papers/01-163 (4348 words)

	Depression
		The cognitive theory of depressed individuals is that the cognitive distortion of depressed individuals does not follow an emotional disturbance, the cognitive distortion causes the emotional disturbance.
		Cognitive theory suggests that depression is a function of distorted thinking and that cognitive distortions lead to depressed behavior.
		Cognitive therapy has been compared to behavioral interventions and was thought to be more effective according to a study by McNamara and Horn (1986).
	home.earthlink.net /~andyda/psych/depress/depression.html (1158 words)

	New Therapist: 8 stages of EMDR
		The attendant level of distress elicited by the memory of the disturbing event or negative cognition is rated from one to 10 on the Subjective Unit of Disturbance (SUD) scale, where 0 is calm and 10 is the most crippling distress.
		The client scans his or her bodily sensations while thinking of the image and the positive cognition, with a view to identifying any tension or unusual sensations which may be apparent.
		Once the therapist is comfortable that the physiological, cognitive and affective markers of the memory have been reduced to a functional level, closure can begin with a view to re-evaluating at the forthcoming treatment session.
	www.newtherapist.com /8stages9.html (704 words)

	Syllabus
		Cognitive distortions: Negative labeling (Question: Where does this happen in the poem?) The so-called "Tyranny of the Shoulds" as a cause of sustained anger.
		Approach your study of cognitive distortions/logical fallacies not simply as tools to be used to unlock literary works but also with the thought of developing your ability to engage in critical thinking generally.
		It can be used with Biographical Criticism, to uncover the ways in which the cognitive distortions of a writer, such as his over-generalized belief in his worthlessness, as in the case of Kafka, or his or her dichotomized or either/or thinking gets translated in fictional persona, as in the case of Plath and Eliot.
	www2.scc-fl.com /asalmon/syllabusengII.htm (5729 words)

	Volume 1 -- Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
		Unconscious construing, the central role of self-schemata in the cognitive organization, and primary social emotions of attachment are not assimilable to psychoanalytic conceptions of the unconscious, the ego, and the libido.
		Such results suggest that anxiety and depression are associated with cognitive biases at different stages of processing, such that the acquisition of threat-related information is facilitated in anxiety, while the recall of negative memories is more characteristic of depression.
		Cognitive therapy has traced the links between the meaning of experience and emotional response but has neglected people's appraisals of their meaning in the world.
	www.cognitivetherapyassociation.org /journal/v1.aspx (1941 words)

	Seven Deadly Sins of Fundamentalism: assessing memetic weapons capability of neoconservatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cognitive distortion, as a concept, highlights the importance of perceptions, assumptions and judgments in coping with the world.
		Cognitive therapy is directed at a set of 10 widely-cited common cognitive distortions, or faulty thought patterns identified by Albert Ellis (Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy, 1962), Aaron Beck and D Stein (The Self Concept in Depression, 1960) and David D Burns' Ten Forms of Twisted Thinking (in The Feeling Good Handbook, 1989):
		Of particular interest in assessing the cognitive sins associated with the ineffective response to the social problems that are the preoccupation of governance, is that of academic procrastination -- a form of the sin of sloth.
	www.laetusinpraesens.org /musings/sins.php (8004 words)

	T. Attwood Modifications to Cognitive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The initial component of CBT is an assessment of the nature and degree of the mood disorder, the cognitive abilities of the client and an evaluation of their circumstances.
		Once the client has improved their cognitive strategies to understand and manage their moods at an intellectual level, it is necessary to start practising them in a graduated sequence of assignments.
		This paper suggests that Cognitive Behaviour Therapy could be an effective treatment for the mood disorders associated with Asperger’s Syndrome but to date, we do not have an extensive body of research studies that substantiate it’s effectiveness or extensive clinical experience in how to modify the therapy components for this clinical population.
	www.tonyattwood.com.au /paper2.htm (3359 words)

	CTR: Notes and Announcements
		Salaberria, K., Echeburua, E. Long-term outcome of cognitive therapy's contribution to self-exposure in vivo to the treatment of generalized social phobia.
		Cervilla, J. A., and Prince, M. Cognitive impairment and social distress as different pathways to depression in the elderly: A cross-sectional study.
		Cognitive therapy in the treatment of drug-resistant delusional disorder.
	www.sci.sdsu.edu /CAL/CTR/oldnotes.html (8154 words)

	cognitive therapy for depression
		Cognitive therapy helps the depressed person recognize which life problems are critical, and which are minor.
		Cognitive distortions are another way of describing the irrational ideas, overgeneralizing of simple mistakes, or developing false assumptions about what other people think about us, or expect from us.
		But, the essence of cognitive therapy is the assumption that irrational thoughts and beliefs, overgeneralization of negative events, a pessimistic outlook on life, a tendency to focus on problems and failures, and negative self assessment, as well as other cognitive distortions, promote the development of psychological problems, especially depression.
	www.psychologyinfo.com /depression/cognitive.htm (2305 words)

	Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		RESULTS: Computer-assisted cognitive therapy and standard cognitive therapy were superior to the wait list control group for treatment of depression and did not differ from each other on the primary outcome variables.
		Improvement in depression for both computer-assisted cognitive therapy and standard cognitive therapy was maintained at the 3- and 6-month follow-up evaluations.
		Computer-assisted cognitive therapy had more robust effects, relative to being wait-listed, than standard cognitive therapy in reducing measures of cognitive distortion and in improving knowledge about cognitive therapy.
	www.academyofct.org /Info/Guide.asp?szparent=287&SessionID=gkisemwgu (436 words)

	alt.support.depression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cognitive (and cognitive-behavioral) therapists can be found in most major cities.
		The first step in cognitive therapy is to learn to recognise cognitive distortions.
		To say you "I shouldn't have so many cognitive distortions" or "Now that I've recognised my cognitive distortions I should _easily_ be able to change the way I act or feel " are cognitive distortions.
	www.meowkitty.net /asd/faq2o5.treat.html (543 words)

	Aaron Beck
		Cognitions are verbal or pictoral representations, available to the conscious, which form according to the interpretations we make about the things that happen to us.
		The goal of cognitive therapy is to alleviate depression and to prevent its recurrence by helping clients to identify and test negative cognitions, to develop alternative and more flexible schemas, and to rehearse both new cognitive and behavioral responses.
		In depression, the relationship between depression and faulty, self defeating cognitions are stressed, as well as the connection of affect and behavior, and all rationales behind treatment.
	www.candleinthedark.com /beck.html (2282 words)

	Lalich, Janja Ph.D.: "The Role of Cognitive Distortion"
		Personalization: Burns calls this distortion “the mother of guilt.” A primary weapon of mind control is training members to believe that everything bad that happens is their fault.
		These 10 cognitive errors are all habits of thinking that are deeply ingrained by the thought-reform processes and cult indoctrination.
		Tendencies toward these distortions may have been in place even before a person’s cult involvement, which may have enhanced vulnerability to recruitment and increased susceptibility to the cult’s practices.
	www.csj.org /infoserv_articles/lalich_janja_cognitive_distortion.htm (1070 words)

	MPQ \| Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Children (N = 143) and caregivers then participated in interviews in which they provided information used to construct a measure of social network (intergenerational) closure, defined as the extent to which meaningful social relationships existed between children and their friends' parents and among parents whose children were friends.
		Because males and females generally have evidenced negligible differences in moral judgment stage, we investigated whether the gender discrepancy in antisocial behavior might be attributable to gender differences in other moral cognitive variables, specifically, moral self-relevance and self-serving cognitive distortion.
		Path analysis revealed that mature moral judgment and higher moral self-relevance were associated with lower levels of self-serving cognitive distortion, which partially mediated the relationship between those variables and antisocial behavior.
	www.asu.edu /clas/fhd/mpq/abstracts_october2001.htm (776 words)

	The Future of Children - Sub-Sections
		As would be predicted from the above, the study of cognition in the adjustment of victims of sexual molestation has linked such abuse to subsequent guilt, low self-esteem, self-blame, and other dysfunctional or inaccurate attributions.
		Gold found that women with a history of child sexual abuse were more likely to attribute the cause of negative events to internal, stable, and global factors, as well as to their character and to their behavior (that is, "this negative event occurred because I am an inherently bad person and I will never change").
		Such cognitive distortions may contribute to or, alternatively, act as mediators of the emotional distress evident among many adult survivors of child sexual abuse.
	www.futureofchildren.org /information2827/information_show.htm?doc_id=74243 (428 words)

	cognitive counseling
		All of the basic cognitive techniques are represented: activity scheduling, graded task assignments, exposure hierarchies, response prevention, challenging underlying schemas, and thought monitoring.
		Drawing from cognitive tenets and techniques, this course is for today's counselor who seeks are committed to helping their clients through brief and successful counseling outcomes.
		be aware of the cognitive approach to marital discord.
	www.counselingceusonline.com /cognitive_counseling.htm (767 words)

	paper1
		Moreover, their feelings had nothing to do with an idealistic desire to be thinner; psychological studies reveal that a cognitive distortion causes many women to actually perceive themselves as overweight.
		The above psychological studies of heuristics, cognitive distortion of weight, and framing suggest that "normal" human ability to make rational decisions may not be that different from the unthinking.
		Cognitive dissonance refers to the unpleasant state of arousal that occurs when people discover inconsistencies between their beliefs and behavior.
	leda.law.harvard.edu /leda/data/163/cho.html (9958 words)

	Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation
		The objective of the present study was to test the effects of practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on recognized psychosocial and cognitive risk factors for criminal behavior.
		The study was conducted at the federal prison on the island of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, from August 1994 to June 1995.
		As has been seen in prior research (Hawkins, this volume), these limited results indicate that the practice of the TM technique can simultaneously reduce a risk factor (cognitive distortion) and increase a protective factor (field independence), supporting the assertion that the TM technique rehabilitates offenders by positively affecting overall human development.
	www.istpp.org /rehabilitation/10.html (268 words)

	Amazon.com: Prisoners of Hate : The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence: Books: Aaron T. Beck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Known as the father of cognitive therapy, Beck, professor emeritus of psychology at the Univ. of Penn. School of Medicine, finds parallels between violent reactions of troubled individuals to presumed wrongs, bombings by extremist militant groups, and acts of genocide perpetrated by states.
		In his psychotherapeutic work with patients, he observed a pattern of thinking that he describes as ``hostile framing,'' that is, perceiving the person one is in conflict with as dangerous and evil and the self as right and good.
		Beck calls such cognitive distortion ``primal thinking'' because it occurs in the earliest stage of information processing and also in the early developmental stage of children.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060932007?v=glance (1971 words)

	FAAAS, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An assessment is conducted of the client's cognitive abilities using standardized intelligence scales to determine their level of intellectual reasoning and style of learning.
		Once the client has improved their cognitive strategies to understand and manage their moods at an intellectual level, it is necessary to start practicing them in a graduated sequence of assignments.
		This paper suggests that Cognitive Behavior Therapy could be an effective treatment for the mood disorders associated with Asperger's Syndrome but to date, we do not have an extensive body of research studies that substantiate its effectiveness or extensive clinical experience in how to modify the therapy components for this clinical population.
	www.faaas.org /doc.php?25,136 (3262 words)

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