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18 Dimensions of Cognitive Theory & Practice
What exactly is cognitive behavior management and how does it compare to biomedical-psychiatric practice? This discussion is concerned with the mode of practice and the science behind it.
18 Executive Dysfunction
INTRODUCTION Parents and teachers are often baffled when students, including those who are intellectually gifted, teeter on the brink of school failure. Recently researchers may have solved part of this challenging puzzle by identifying deficits in critical cognitive...
18 Quality is Personal
The working presumption of this endeavor is that people will feel better about themselves and about their work if they believe that they are successfully performing an important job at a high level of quality.
19 Anger Control
Clinical Prompt The beginning of any technique starts with a trusting relationship with the child. Teach language and concepts self talk coping strategies triggers [frustration, annoyance, treatment, abuse, let downs] anger process [perception - thoughts - feelings -...
19 Communicating
Two people enter an elevator. They do not look at each other and they do not talk. Do they communicate? Sure they do. Each is appraising the nuances of body language of the other – they may attempt to give meaning to the lack of eye contact and talk based on the other messages on the nuances of posture and behavior. If this is true, communication between parent [or any other significant adult] and child is of major importance. This discussion concerns forms of communication and way to improve social competence outcomes in children.
19 Finding and Using Evidence
Is evidence-based a process that human services should use and what evidence should be collected. Evidence: Something that gives a sign or proof of the existence or truth of something or that helps somebody to come to a particular conclusion.
19 Self
Most of us intuitively believe we have a self and that this self is in some way capable of ‘free will’. Some, with a metaphysical bent, contrast the self and the soul, or combine the self and the soul, thus making two non-definable entities into one. Self is in some way also connected to another non-definable concept of the ‘mind’.
20 Cognitive Behavior Management Orientation
Our awareness is the end product of an immensely complicated and imperfectly understood process, taking place in the central nervous system. What reaches our brain via the nervous system is not a meaningful picture of freestanding objects, but a deluge of nerve impulses.
20 Criteria For Psychological Intervention
The protocols for referral for psychological services need to be clearly identified and related to expected outcomes. Too often referents are unclear as to what constitutes a problems that should be addressed psychologically and psychological counselors are unclear about expected outcomes.