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*Health Issues>>>Mental Health issues>>>What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy? |
Issue What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy? Best Tip Cognitive Behavior Therapy is a kind of psychotherapy used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, phobias, delusional disorder and other forms of mental disorder. The therapies focus on the thoughts, images, beliefs and attitudes that we hold (our cognitive processes) and how this relates to the way we behave, as a way of dealing with emotional problems. It involves recognizing unhelpful or destructive patterns of thinking and reacting, then modifying or replacing these with more realistic or helpful ones You can easily be refered for CBT by your doctor if they feel you have a problem. CBT is often offered in conjuction with conselling. There can be long waiting lists for CBT on the NHS, but recently many patients have been refered for Computer CBT while they wait. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cognitive_b... http://www.mind.org.uk/information/bookl... Others It believes that your thinking affects your behaviour. Change the thinking patterns, and your behaviour will change. Works well with anxiety and phobias. Are you having some? it looks at learned behaviours and associations, patterns and reactions to something and teaches new ways to deal with it. Very useful in Stress and phobias as it teaches u coping mechanisms and undoes the previous learned behaviours. It's a way of thinking yourself out of a behaviour, say switching yoursel from looking at the glass as half empty to half full. You take small steps in changing the way you look at problems in your life by changing how you react to them. There may be a small component of personal reward for you as you change your behaviour and thought process. more commonly called "talk therapy" It's where a trained therapist encourages discussion, teaches coping stragagies, and incites introspection to solve a person's problems. Unfortunately nowadays most people take the shortcut of drug therapy, trying to undo years worth of problems/abuse |
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