The Rational-Experiential Information Processing Systems Model: Its Implications For Cognitive Therapy
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: ABSTRACT. Recent models of the cognitive system include the notion of different levels of information processing. According to these models, cognitive organization and capacity for parallel processing allows a multilayered system of appraisals in which different levels of evaluation are simultaneously available. Thus, the interpretations of a single stimulus may comprise several forms of representation coupled together. A general argument advanced in this paper is that, given the capacity to represent reality and process information in qualitatively different ways, the strategies for intervention must accommodate to such differences in order to increase their effectiveness. The present paper –theoretical study- discusses relevant problems in the standard cognitive therapy model regarding representation of reality and information processing. It presents an alternative information-processing model, the rational-experiential model. Finally, the paper discusses some implications for cognitive therapy practice resulting from the alternative formulation about information processing.
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2170889687