Dr. Aaron Beck: Ukraine is a country of my parents’ love

Authors

  • Sergii Boltivets doctor of psychological sciences, professor, leader of the rehabilitation programs of Clinic of active therapy of the special being, chairman of Ukrainian society of hypnosis, deputy of editor-in-chief and permanent author of magazine “Psychology & society”, Kyiv. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4432-5272

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35774/pis2019.01.083

Keywords:

Beck Institute, cognitive behavior therapy, Ukrainian genetic line of Aaron Beck’s origin, dysfunctional thinking, cognitive model, cognitive formulation, behavioral strategies, conceptualization, involuntary thoughts, mental health specialists

Abstract

For the first time, is shown the genealogy of one of the world’s most prominent American psychiatrists – Doctor Aaron Temkin Beck (born in 1922), a creator of the cognitive behavior therapy method and a founder, along with his daughter, Dr. Judith Beck, the Beck Institute in the largest city of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia. Ukrainian roots and the A. Beck’s way of life is highlighted in detail, also a correspondence with him in 2018-19 is indicated. The attention was paid to the 25th anniversary of the Beck Institute, which began its work on July 1, 1994. In addition, CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) is characterized as time-sensitive, structured, focused on the present moment psychotherapy, which aims at solving current problems and training people who seek help, skills to independently change their own dysfunctional thinking, undesirable behavior. CBT is a psychotherapy based on a cognitive model, that is, on such a method of conscious behavior, when a person, perceiving a situation, to a greater extent organizes his reactions to him rather than to the situation itself. The key terms of the CBT are disclosed, which include the cognitive formulation of the problem as a complete belief of the client and his behavioral strategies that characterize a particular disorder; a conceptualization as an understanding of individual peculiarities of clients and their specific beliefs and / or behavior patterns; a cognitive model as an example of how people perceive the situation is more closely connected with their reaction rather than with the components of the situation itself; automatic (involuntary) thoughts as ideas that uncontrollably rise from the mind of human. The theoretical substantiation of the CBT by doctors Aaron and Judith Beck is carried out in the context of its cognitive interpretation model. The work of Dr. Aaron Beck “Cognitive therapy of depression” was announced, which the author have chosen for translate to Ukrainian specialists in the field of mental health.

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No. 1 (2019): PSYCHOLOGY & SOCIETY

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Boltivets, Sergii. “Dr. Aaron Beck: Ukraine Is a Country of My parents’ Love”. Psyhology & Society, vol. 75, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 83-89, https://doi.org/10.35774/pis2019.01.083.