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What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Exploring relationships among a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors is the main focus of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Starting CBT with a therapist will fit well with a person to discover unhealthy patterns of thought process and how they may be causing self-destructive behaviors and beliefs throughout their journey in life.
The individual and therapist can work together to develop solutions that will produce healthier behaviors and beliefs. For instance, CBT can help someone replace thoughts that lead to low self-esteem with positive expectations.
Main Principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
The principles of CBT are identifying negative or false beliefs by testing and/or restructuring them. More often than most, someone being treated with CBT will have homework in between sessions where they practice replacing negative thoughts with realistic thoughts based on their past experiences. Individuals who have undergone CBT show changes in brain activity, offering that therapy actually improves brain functioning as well.
STUDIES HAVE SHOWN CBT TO BE AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF MENTAL ILLNESSES, INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING:•
• Depression
• Anxiety disorders
• Bipolar disorder
• Eating disorders
• Schizophrenia
Cognitive behavioral therapy has a considerable amount of scientific data supporting its use and many mental health care professionals have training in CBT, making it both effective and accessible. To learn more about CBT, contact kp counseling at 779-368-0060.