Describe and evaluate the cognitive-behavioral model of mental disorders

What will be an ideal response?


Student responses should include
- the behavioral perspective on mental disorders is based on the assumption that behavior is learned
- two major learning principles underlie the behavioral approach: classical conditioning and operant conditioning
- the cognitive perspective suggests that problematic symptoms and behavior develop from the way we perceive and think about our present and past experiences
- key principles of the cognitive perspective include schemas and cognitive distortions
- behavioral and cognitive perspectives have been combined to form the cognitive-behavioral model
- major cognitive-behavioral treatment approaches include cognitive-behavioral therapy, rational restructuring, systematic desensitization, exposure, and token economy
- strengths of the cognitive-behavioral model includes a broad array of effective treatments
- a major limitation of the cognitive-behavioral model is its poor account of how mental problems originally develop

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