Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a type of psychosocial therapy that assumes the individual seeking treatment has maladaptive, or counterproductive, thinking patterns, which in turn cause maladaptive behavior and “negative” emotions. This type of therapy involves education, skill-building, and problem-solving. It may or may not be accompanied by medication. These maladaptive behaviors are…
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Have you ever felt hopeless, like you are forever caught in a quagmire of mental spins that lead you nowhere, except to unhappiness and more hopelessness? Do you find yourself acquiring more and more labels for the various things wrong with you and continuously revisiting traumatic aspects of your past? Life doesn’t…