Abstract

Behavioral-cognitive training approaches tend to have an influence on the emotions and behaviors. Moreover, it is believed that the individuals respond to their own cognitive representation of the events more than the events themselves. Behavioral-cognitive training underlines the reduction of the effects of the beliefs or inconsistent or ineffective feedbacks. In this method, the individual is assisted to learn how to objectively evaluate and examine thoughts and notions of the unpleasant incidents. In other words, the individual is taught to test these unpleasant events with objective evidences, correct cognitive distortions and gain a new and more consistent cognition about oneself, world and the future. Also, the method incorporates lowering the evaluations and negative thoughts and the ways one can cope with them as well as teaching the individuals with proper and effective behavioral-cognitive strategies. Meanwhile discussing the behavioral-cognitive training approaches, we deal with the clarification and explanation of patterns and role-models so as to assist the individuals in optimally making use of them for recognizing these patterns and regulating their behaviors in accordance with such models.