Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an effective evidence-based treatment for depression and anxiety. CBT involves a number of separate components aimed at changing unhelpful behaviour patterns and challenging unhelpful thinking styles. Recording which of these components are used in therapy sessions can be useful in both clinical practice and research …
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a highly effective form of psychotherapy applied to treat a range of mental illnesses including, but not limited to, depression, anxiety, somatic symptom disorders, substance use disorders, trauma-related disorders and eating disorders. CBT originated as an application of psychological research on learning theory to the …
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Insomnia is very common, affecting up to 37% of adults, and is linked to a host of mental and physical health problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is recommended as the first line treatment for insomnia by the National Institutes of Health, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and …
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Text by: Doyanne Darnell Each year in the U.S. 1.5-2.5 million people suffer traumatic injury requiring inpatient hospitalization. The nation’s trauma care system is highly effective in saving lives, being well-coordinated within geographic regions to provide a full continuum of medical care and responsive to best-practice guidelines based on up-to-date …
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The best way to overcome one’s fears and concerns is to confront them. This is as straightforward as it is true. Many studies show that exposure with response prevention (ERP) is the most efficacious treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a mental illness characterized by intrusive thoughts (e.g., fears about getting …
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60% of patients with depression are attended in the Spanish Primary Care. Nevertheless, half of them, approximately, show low adherence to medication and psychotherapy presents difficulties in delivering interventions to the community because the lack of time and specialized resources. For these reasons, online interventions offer a valuable alternative to …
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy A peer reviewed, multidisciplinary journal devoted to the application of behavioural and cognitive sciences to clinical psychology and psychotherapy.