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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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| Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a highly regarded, evidence-based psychotherapeutic approach that can help rectify dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-directed, systematic procedure. Research studies have shown that CBT is effective for treatment of anxiety, personality, eating, substance abuse, mood and psychotic disorders.CBT was developed by merging principles from two traditional approaches: behavior therapy and cognitive therapy. Some agencies recommend CBT as the preferred treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia nervosa and other eating disorders, and clinical depression. CBT also is used to treat insomnia and schizophrenia.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is helpful not only for adults, but also for children and adolescents. It is often used to treat major depressive disorder (also known as clinical depression, major depression or unipolar depression), as well as anxiety disorders and symptoms related to trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. For many disorders, combined use of CBT with psychopharmacology has been proven much more effective than either therapy alone. Several of the practitioners here at Healing Pathways are specialists in CBT and work well and collaboratively with Dr. Copeland in his psychopharmacology practice. Healing Pathways also has expertise in dialectical behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), hypnotherapy, family therapy, applied behavior analysis and art therapy. |