| type="text/javascript"> ch_client = "articlealley"; | | | | generating alternative courses of action. |
| ch_type = "mpu"; ch_width = 590; ch_height = 250; | | | | Cognitive therapy helps clients to understand that |
| ch_non_contextual = 4; ch_noborders = 1; | | | | distorted patterns of cognition have problematic |
| ch_vertical ="premium"; ch_sid = "590x250 Article | | | | emotional and behavioral consequences. Teaching |
| Mixed Top"; ch_alternate_ad_url = " var ch_queries | | | | clients to self-monitor their thoughts and feelings on a |
| = new Array( ); var | | | | day-to-day basis through the utilization of a daily diary |
| th)); if ( ch_selected < ch_queries.length ) { | | | | helps them unravel core beliefs and their relation to |
| ch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected]; } Cognitive | | | | ongoing feelings and behaviors. In cognitive |
| Behavior Therapy (CBT) is an action-oriented, | | | | treatment, clients learn to detect and dispute their |
| problem-solving therapy which has been found to be | | | | irrational beliefs by discriminating them from their |
| highly effective in treating anxiety and depressive | | | | rational alternatives. Over time, this enhanced |
| disorders. This therapy is strategically devised to | | | | awareness will lead them to actively challenge their |
| treat different problems in different individuals. CBT | | | | dysfunctional thoughts by employing cognitive, |
| utilizes the "here and now" approach, emphasizing | | | | emotive, and behavioral methods of change. |
| current life factors that maintain the problem, though | | | | Behavior therapy assists clients in detecting behavioral |
| past experiences that are directly relevant to the | | | | patterns that are functionally related to the |
| client's distress is welcomed into the discussion. | | | | presenting complaint. A behavioral treatment plan is |
| Cognitive-behavior therapists help clients to | | | | carefully tailored to meet each individual's needs and |
| understand that although biological and environmental | | | | is dependent on the specific problem at hand. Often, |
| conditions can contribute to problems, the clients | | | | techniques such as relaxation training and systematic |
| create, to a large degree, their own psychological | | | | desensitization are utilized to help clients gradually |
| disturbances and have the ability to significantly | | | | increase their comfort level in the presence of |
| change these disturbances. Therapists play an integral | | | | phobias or feared situations. In addition, modeling, |
| part in correcting the disturbed evaluations, emotions, | | | | behavior rehearsal, and planned exposures are some |
| and behaviors of their clients by guiding them toward | | | | of the many tools that assist individuals in managing |
| rational goals and purposes and assisting them in | | | | their anxieties more effectively. |