Developed from Ellis and Beck’s cognitive theories of depression, it aims to challenge and eliminate negative distortions and replace negative automatic thoughts with alternative adaptive thoughts by using logical analysis and behavioural experiments. Behavioral techniques include increasing rewarding activities (activity scheduling), decreasing behavior that is followed by unpleasant consequences, training family/friends to praise/encourage constructive behaviors and not to reinforce depressive behaviors, and assertiveness and social skills training. Used in the treatment of children with Attentional Deficit Disorder.
See Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Behavior modification, Person-centered approaches