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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

"CBT is one of the most common and best-studied forms of psychotherapy. It is a combination of two therapeutic approaches, known as cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy.

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Which treatment methods are applied depends on the illness or problem to be treated. The basic principle behind the therapy is always the same: What we think, how we feel, and behave are all closely connected – and all of these factors have a decisive influence on our well-being.

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Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a problem-oriented strategy. It focuses on current problems and finding solutions for them. Unlike psychoanalysis, for example, it does not deal primarily with the past. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is much more concerned with dealing with current problems. The most important thing is helping people to help themselves: They should be able to cope with their lives again without therapy as soon as possible. This does not mean that cognitive-behavioral therapy completely ignores the influence of past events. But it mainly deals with identifying and changing current distressing thought and behavioral patterns."  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279297/

Research Articles

This is a subset of research available

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