Re:Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs
by adolph on Sunday April 30, 2023 @10:09AM
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> What happened to the expectation of people being adults?
The below quotes from Haidt summarize the concept that culture at large is promoting an inverse of CBT. As a result the knowledge increasing method of criticism has been hijacked by folx channeling their inner Foucault.
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). In CBT you learn to recognize when your ruminations and automatic thinking patterns exemplify one or more of about a dozen “cognitive distortions,” such as catastrophizing, black-and-white thinking, fortune telling, or emotional reasoning.
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Greg hypothesized that if colleges supported the use of these cognitive distortions, rather than teaching students skills of critical thinking (which is basically what CBT is), then this could cause students to become depressed. Greg feared that colleges were performing reverse CBT.
The below quotes from Haidt summarize the concept that culture at large is promoting an inverse of CBT. As a result the knowledge increasing method of criticism has been hijacked by folx channeling their inner Foucault.
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). In CBT you learn to recognize when your ruminations and automatic thinking patterns exemplify one or more of about a dozen “cognitive distortions,” such as catastrophizing, black-and-white thinking, fortune telling, or emotional reasoning.
. . .
Greg hypothesized that if colleges supported the use of these cognitive distortions, rather than teaching students skills of critical thinking (which is basically what CBT is), then this could cause students to become depressed. Greg feared that colleges were performing reverse CBT.
https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-g...