What is Cognative behaviour therapy?

Question

Is it only for people who suffer from depression or can anyone benefit from this?

Any links or other related info would be appreciated

Answer 1

cognitive behavior therapy is a type of therapy where you try to change the client's way of thinking, therefore changing their behaviors. It can be used for many different types of therapy, not just depression.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Anyone can benefit from cognitive behaviour therapy. It certainly helped me through a very painful time in my life. I discovered that throughout my life I had fallen into a pattern of thinking which affected me as a person and the people around me. Cognitive therapy is about making you aware of how you think about yourself, the world and other people and how what you do affects your thoughts and feelings. It is then up to you to change your thought process. Today I still have the odd bad day but I'm a more positive person, in my thoughts and my behaviour. My family have benefited and most importantly my children.

It doesn't work for everyone but you won't know unless you try it and what do you have to lose? Good luck!

Answer 4

cognitive behavior therapy is a type of therapy that examines the thought process and how those thoughts influence and effect a person's emotions and behaviors. The goal of therapy is to change the thought process so that a person's thinking becomes more rational and thus depression (or whatever else) lessens. Anyone can benefit from this type of therapy as most people have some sort of negative thinking pattern. Even if you aren't depressed or anxious or have anything going on in your life, you would likely benefit from this type of therapy.

Answer 5

the short awnser is it won't actually help increase the serotonin levels. HOWEVER, people with an axienty disorder will be able to learn the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Thus if you decrease a thought or a behaviour, your anxious mood will change. CBT will give one techniques to work through thought records etc. These thought records will have colums for things like "situation (be specific)" "hot thought"(the most intense thought or fear) as well as colums that say "evidence that supports hot thought" and "evidence that DOES NOT support hot thought". The therapist will help you work through these. There will also be a lot of other techniques that will help an individual learn how to recognize when their thoughts have no hard evidence (feelings don't count, the idea is that if it were taken to a court room, you could present it as evidence) and then change their thoughts accordingly to something more realistic. In severe cases of general axienty, your doctor may suggest CBT AND medication. the same is also true for depression etc. many mental illnesses are caused by a physical response, but in milder cases CBT can help individuals deal with their thoughts/problems with coping techniques effectively (in fact my doctor AND my psychiatrist said that CBT has the same rate of success as medication alone does on depression and the same is true with a number of problems) without the risk of side effects. In more severe cases, CBT and medication may be prescribed together for maximum benefits.

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Answer 6

Therapy to change behaviour through thought. I've had it for an eating disorder. Sadly. it didn't work. Good luck

Answer 7

CBT
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), is a 'talking' treatment that helps many people with mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.



If you decide to have CBT, you should expect to take an active role in helping yourself to get better, and will often be asked to keep a diary of your thoughts, actions, and feelings. Sessions with the therapist are typically for one hour a week, and a course lasts for 10 to 15 weeks, although it may be longer or shorter, depending upon the severity of the problem.


CBT facts

CBT has been shown to be as effective as antidepressants in treating cases of mild to moderate depression.
It does not involve the use of drugs.
This therapy is thought to reduce the risk of relapse in people who have already had one episode of depression.
CBT is not normally suitable for someone who has extreme difficulty in reading or writing, isn't prepared to do a bit of 'homework', has severe learning difficulties, or does not believe that their thoughts or beliefs have an influence on their mood.
A brief overview
You will have to monitor yourself for negative (aka 'automatic') thoughts and inaccurate beliefs about the world and the people around you (e.g. 'everything is hopeless', or 'I'm a worthless person'). The next step is to look at how these thoughts make you feel, for example you may feel anxious, helpless, or unloveable after thinking them. Negative thoughts can drag you down into a spiral of anxiety or depression.

After noting your thoughts and feelings, you challenge them in a rational way. This could be along the lines of 'it is not completely hopeless, I am still able to do something to help myself today, even if it is just something small', or 'my boss is just in a bad mood this morning, she probably was unfriendly to me because she is feeling stressed, this does not mean that she wants to fire me'.

When you have got the hang of checking your thoughts and challenging them in a straightforward way, you will often start to feel better and find it easier to cope with your passing negative feelings. Expect be encouraged to generate solutions to your problems that are more helpful than your usual ways of coping. You can also try working it through as an 'experiment', testing out newer, healthier beliefs to see whether they make more sense, so instead of saying to yourself 'I'm worthless' you could spend a day looking for things that tell you you're a worthwhile person, and so on.

Answer 8

It's a psychology approach to changing peoples thinking patterns and helping them see events and themselves in a more positive and constructive manner.

It's a sort of software upgrade for the brain, so people can learn to view problems and attitudes to problems in a more constructive manner.

Positive thinking and all that.

Try this site: http://www.nacbt.org/whatiscbt.htm

Or here: http://counsellingresource.com/types/cognitive-therapy/index.html

Answer 9

Cognitive Behavioral therapy is my personal favorite method of therapy for its pragmatic approach to psychology. It acknowledges that all action is derived from past experiences and the reinforcements that cause us to repeat them (behaviorism). Cognition means our ability to actively think, or be aware of our surrounding, developing our own approach from among the many options presented.
Cognitive Behavioral therapy relies on the individual's ability to make conscious decisions, and to form these more adequately. These include examination of metacogntiion (thinking about your thought processes) and deriving the best course of action from among the options. Rewarding therapy that has worked for me.

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