Attitude and Persuasion
Briefly discuss persuasion as an effortless cognitive process.
In cognitive psychology, change is the focus of all mental health officials in addressing the various issues that are impacting someone. To achieve this objective they are looking at: what the person thinks and is telling themselves mentally. Once this takes place, the patient will then begin to discuss how these issues are affecting them and the way that they are impacting their lives. The psychologist will then introduce, some kind of pattern interrupt to change the way they are thinking and viewing various events. This is accomplished is by: asking a series of different questions about the underlying meaning and its effect on their lives. This is designed to transform how the person is thinking by: forcing them to respond those thoughts that are affecting them. This is the point that the mental health professional can be able to: understand the root causes of the problem and how this is impacting the way the person sees the world around them. (Burns, 1992, pp. 53 -- 220)
The use of questions is powerful tool, because it is taking away the underlying emotions associated with how someone is looking a particular situation and what is affecting them. Next, the mental health professionals will begin to introduce alternative thoughts that can be used to improve their understanding of a particular situation. In this case, they will have them write these views down on separate piece of paper about: how the negative thoughts they are experiencing are influencing their behavior. This helps the person to see how this is hurting their quality of life. (Burns, 1992, pp. 53 -- 220)
Once this occurs, mental health professionals will then work with the patient to: write down more empowering thoughts and the way they can look at various situations they will encounter. This is creating a change in the way they are seeing these events and how they are responding to them. At which point, pattern interrupts are introduced to the individual, so that when they are having...
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