Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on the patient's current problems and how to solve them. Both patient and therapist need to be actively involved in this process. The therapist helps the patient identify and change habits of thinking which may be undermining and limiting. The patient also develops the ability to be less governed by unhelpful thoughts and feelings. CBT also targets problematic behaviors. The therapist collaborates with the patient to develop and implement alternative, constructive ways of responding to internal and external triggers. A more comfortable, productive, and expansive life is the frequent outcome of a course of CBT.
People who seek CBT can expect their therapist to be interactive, solution-focused, and goal-directed. Therapy will entail homework assignments, structured exercises, and specific behaviors to practice each week. Patients find that CBT is straightforward and "makes sense."
CBT is classified as an evidence-based treatment because a vast number of studies have proven its effectiveness. Concluding that it is "very useful in treating anxiety disorders" CBT is the only therapy the National Institute of Mental Health recommends in the information it disseminates to the public about these syndromes.
People who seek CBT can expect their therapist to be interactive, solution-focused, and goal-directed. Therapy will entail homework assignments, structured exercises, and specific behaviors to practice each week. Patients find that CBT is straightforward and "makes sense."
CBT is classified as an evidence-based treatment because a vast number of studies have proven its effectiveness. Concluding that it is "very useful in treating anxiety disorders" CBT is the only therapy the National Institute of Mental Health recommends in the information it disseminates to the public about these syndromes.
