COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY

Cognitive Behavior Therapy



Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Origin of this approach

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT is a psychotherapeutic approach for treating psychiatric illnesses like mood disorders for example, depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias and insomnia (British Association of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies, 2005). Like other psychotherapeutic interventions, it requires the client to attend a certain number of fixed sessions with the therapist. These can range from 5 to 20 weekly or fortnightly sessions, each lasting from 30 to 60 minutes each (Robertson, 2010).

The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980) has influenced the development of psychology in the field of cognitive development greatly. Development of stages of cognitive development is considered as an important contribution of Piaget in the development of cognitive theory. According to Piaget four crucial stages of cognitive development are sensor motor, preoperational, concrete operations and formal operations. In 1963, Bandura and Walters expanded cognitive learning theory principles through observational learning and resultant amplification. Bandura's concept of self-efficacy became a source of understanding learning. He presented this self-efficacy concept in 1977, when he refuted the traditional learning theory.

Practice method similar to or different from other methods

Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy (cognitive-behavioral therapy or, CBT) are a group of treatments of mental disorders (phobias, addictions, psychosis, depression, anxiety), which share an, approach in which the therapy must be based on knowledge derived of scientific psychology and obey relatively standardized protocols whose validity is based on substantial evidence. The TCC to address the special difficulties of the patient in the here and now "through practical exercises focused on observable symptoms through behavior and coaching by the therapist who seeks to intervene on mental processes also known as cognitive processes, conscious or not, considered the origin of emotions and their disorders. Standardizing the practice of CBT has contributed to the recognition of their effectiveness by their reproducibility is a requirement of the scientific process (Butler, 2000).

The actual difference between cognitive therapy and cognitive behavior is the level of inference and game theoretic approach, with each distinct axiom. The focus cognitive process considered in cognitive explanations can be located on the conduct itself based on cognition. From a cognitive-behavioral (especially the behavioral) explanation, of behavior can only be sustained in the medium and not on intra-psychic concepts (in mind). They keep so many different axioms of departure. As a reference to this explanation, see the work of Rocio Fernandez Ballesteros, although certainly not all the authors make such distinctions, since it is complex to discern the cognitive and behavioral when both techniques may be doing similar but from different theoretical approaches. In addition, clinical practice usually has many similarities regardless of game theoretical approach, given a common social reality.

Cognitive therapy, as an application of cognitive psychology, maintains a focus on psychological conception of mental processes (such as reasoning, memory and attention) and from an intrapsychic point of view (understanding that there is something comparable in the mind of some peoples ...