COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY

Strengths and Weaknesses of Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Introduction

Cognitive behavior therapy is among the most broadly used therapies with the adult population, child and adolescent. Normally, this therapy is a combination of techniques from cognitive and behavior principles, joined by the perception that psychopathology development and maintenance is related to the reciprocal connection between emotional responding, learned behaviors, mal-adaptive cognitions and physiological indications (Ehrenreich, et al., 2005).

Strength and Weaknesses of Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Cognitive behavior therapy is an attempt to alter the undesirable emotions with the use of tactics to change the behaviors and maladaptive cognitions related to those emotions. This therapy ...