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COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT)
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What is CBT?
CBT is based on the concept that the way we think affects how we feel emotionally.
Cognitive therapy focuses on present thinking, behavior, and communication rather than on past experiences (childhood experiences) and is oriented toward problem solving. Cognitive Behavioral therapy is probably the most widely utilized therapy in modern clinical psychology. It is used for a broad range of problems including depression, anxiety, panic attacks, fears, eating disorders, substance abuse, and personality problems.
In CBT typically we identify irrational or maladaptive thoughts, assumptions and beliefs that are related to debilitating negative emotions and learn how they are dysfunctional, inaccurate, or simply not helpful. This is done in an effort to reject the distorted cognitions and to replace them with more realistic and self-helping alternatives.
Cognitive behavioral therapy aids clients in weakening the connections between troublesome situations and habitual reactions these situations may cause. Habitual reactions or responses to situations can include fear, depression, rage, and self-defeating or self-damaging behaviors. Cognitive behavioral therapy illustrates the manner in which certain thinking patterns may contribute to an individual's problems, and attempts to alter these thinking patterns for the better. Altering thinking patterns is often especially helpful in trauma recovery and eating disorder treatment.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is recognized as an extremely effective form of therapy. The national Institute on drug abuse published a study on the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and cocaine use showing the effectiveness of these techniques.
http://www.drugabuse.gov/txmanuals/cbt/cbt1.html
Numerous other outcome studies show that cognitive behavioral therapy in alcohol rehabilitation centers, and eating disorder treatments, can be more effective than medication in the treatment of depression, anxiety, obsessions and other fears. Therapy does not have the negative side effects of medications and it can be highly effective in preventing relapse as it provides patients with the opportunity to learn self-help strategies. CBT can provide a very powerful tool for stopping negative thought patterns and getting your life on a more satisfying track.
Specific benefits of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy include:
Reversing negative patterns of thinking, addressing bad habits
Appropriately dealing with stress
Calmly addressing fears
New ways of learning and self-help techniques are developed
Increase in self-esteem
Decreased strain of depression in one's life
Facilitates different responses to negative situations
Who Can Benefit From Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
A variety of people can be helped with the assistance of cognitive behavioral therapy. Such people often are suffering from problems such as:
Low self-esteem
Phobias
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Insomnia
Eating disorders (bulimia, anorexia, etc.)
Panic attacks
Poor relationships
Anxiety
Depression
Substance abuse
At this time, Cognitive Behavioral interventions are the most effective treatments for methamphetamine addiction. It helps modify the patients' thinking, expectations, and behaviors and to increase skills in coping with various life stressors.
http://www.nacbt.org/whatiscbt.htm
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