... al., 1995. Following from this another assumption of the cognitive model is that distorted thinking is maintained within a patient because he/she is unable to put their biases of reality of reality to the test, in other words 'face their fears'. An example of this is social phobics that seem to avoid social situations as they have excessive fears about the opinions of others. The way for social phobics to over come this disorder is for them to face their fears and put themselves in a social situation so that they are able to put there ideas to the test, and over come their phobias. This suggests that to overcome abnormal behaviour we have to alter the faulty thinking that has caused it. To do this we have to replace the irrational thinking, with rational thinking. The common steps to do this by cognitive therapy were explained by Beck & ...

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