EFFECTS OF BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER

Аннотация

The behavioural approach to psychotherapy was formed as a direction of theoretical psychology under the influence of behaviorism, as the main subject of learning that determines its behavior ("behavioural"). We also note that behaviorism in its traditional model is characterized by a special understanding of psychopathology-as a result of improper study, the acquisition of maladaptive forms of response to external stimuli for some reason; such a view predetermines the optimistic prospects of actively changing behavior of behavioral psychotherapy, and also determines the main direction of the method and technique used – teaching new, flexible types of reactions, strengthening them, inhibiting pre-existing maladaptation.