Concepts and Techniques of Clinical Therapy Used Cognitive Therapy Cognitive therapy is a technique used to treat depression, dysfunction, and withdrawal, among other psychological disorders. It is based on the notion that a person’s negative feelings are because of their thoughts about self, not outside influences or events. It acknowledges that while we might not control what happens to us by our environments, we might undoubtedly control how we think about them. It is effective because it helps people change how they think about themselves and how they react to the environment. Some of the cognitive therapy techniques being used clinically include cognitive restructuring, introspective exposure, exposure and response prevention, progressive muscle relaxation, relaxed breathing, and journaling. Since cognitive therapy

Student’s name: Professor’s name: Course: Date: Psychiatric diseases and Mental Health Introduction Psychiatric diseases are also referred to as psychiatric disorders. This are mental illnesses diagnosed by mental health experts which are considered to significantly trouble the thinking, frame of mind (mood) and behavior of individuals and thus acutely escalating the possibility of incapacitation, death or severe pain. Such diseases are also associated with the loss of freedom (Bajwa et al.). Such diseases are a threat to mental health since they can bring about complications that interfere with the mental state of individuals. This being the case, psychiatric disorders entail either behavioral or cognitive patterns that bring about substantial levels of anguish and distress hand in hand with disablement of

                      Mid-term Exam Student’s name: Institutional Affiliation: Course: Date:                           There are four dimensions along which a potential audience can be characterized: Disease or at-risk status, life cycle stage, racial or ethnic value, and sociodemographic characteristics. People diagnosed with life-threatening diseases experience the symptoms associated with the disease as well as the stress that comes with it, and they still have to make decisions regarding their medical care. In critical times of illness, patients become limited in attending to new information and even developing new skills. The strategies used to control and limit the initial behavior change, such