Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This is a type of therapy that enables one to change his/her behavior by changing how they think. It helps changes how one thinks acts and feels. It’s an effective treatment for challenges such as depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, anger problems, and post-traumatic stress disorder and symptoms. Helps the children and the young youth be aware of their actions, thoughts, feelings hence be able to see the situation and deal with it effectively.
Cognitive therapy is mostly practiced therapy because it’s more of evidenced proofs. Cognitive therapy is mainly used due to the following reasons: Ability to check on improvements, the clients may be able to measure the difference taking place since the start hence know if there is any change with how they think and behave. Proven improvement, recent research has proven that the therapy standards that are used are more qualified and being measured is easier. Skill-based approach, the therapy is somehow educationally-based since one may learn in and use it in the future; its used as techniques used to tackle negative thinking. It is accessible, this is the major reason behind the high use of this therapy since its readily available due to many therapists, and it also provides quick results (Jacobson, 2010).
Cognitive therapy achieves its results when the clients are monitored with the therapists on their progress each week by evaluating the symptoms of the client (http://beckinstitute.org). The common elements shared by cognitive therapy and all others form of treatment are: The treatment pays attention to you during the sessions, the client is always listened to in all treatment, the therapy respects the culture of the clients, Secrets of a client should remain private and confidential (Donohue and Fisher, 2012).
Reference
Reasons for the popularity of Behavioral, cognitive therapy is proven from:
http://www.harleytherapy.co.uk
https://careersinpsychology.org- Northwestern University
Founded in 1994 by Dr. Judith Beck and Dr. Aaron Beck http://beckinstitute.org