Emotional Therapy: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY Cognitive behavioral therapy (or cognitive behavioral therapies or CBT) is a psychotherapeutic approach that aims to solve problems concerning dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure.[i] The title is used in diverse ways to designate behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and to refer to therapy based upon a combination of basic behavioral and cognitive research. There is empirical evidence that CBT is effective for the treatment of a variety of problems, including mood, anxiety, personality, eating, substance abuse, and psychotic disorders.[ii] Treatment is often manualized, with specific technique-driven brief, direct, and time-limited treatments for
Given a difficult history of circumstances in a client's life, the CBT therapist's inclination would be to help the client consider what they can do now to resolve their present difficulties. Typically, this involves working step-by-step to achieve operationalized proximal goals with an eye toward ultimate distal goals. This focus on the client's present does not mean that CBT therapist never consider developmental histories; often it is helpful for the therapist and the client to have some sense of how their idiosyncratic experiences emerged. It does mean that the client's history is not likely to be a major focus of treatment.
This can include such activities as: Reading Self-help exercises Experiential activities Journaling Thought Stopping Intentional Reframing
Therapy sessions are really ‘training sessions’, between which the client tries out and uses what they have learned.
Finally, CBT tries to reduce their clients emotional discomfort and behaviors that affect the client by making a real life philosophy and guide them to a specific destination. Other important aims include reducing blaming the life and others because of the wrongness in the life and learning cope with the future problems effectively.[iv] It is important that the way of thinking and behaving according to this thought. Greek Philosopher, Epictetus quotes “People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them”.

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[i] British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies: What are Cognitive and/or Behavioural Psychotherapies? Retrieved on 2008-11-1

[ii] ^ Butler AC, Chapman JE, Forman EM, Beck AT (January 2006). "The empirical status of cognitive-behavioral therapy: a review of meta-analyses". Clin Psychol Rev 26 (1): 17–31. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2005.07.003. PMID