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What is CBT?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is
a way of talking about:
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How you think about yourself,
the world and other people
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How what you do affects your
thoughts and feelings.
CBT can help you to change how
you think ("Cognitive") and what you do
("Behaviour"). These
changes can help you to feel better. Unlike some of the
other talking treatments, it focuses on the "here
and now" problems and difficulties. Instead of
focussing on the causes of your distress or symptoms in
the past, it looks for ways to improve your state of
mind now.
How does it work?
CBT helps people to identify the links that exist between
their thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
By making these links, people are able to
identify what can be changed in the way they currently
think or behave to help the way they feel.
CBT concentrates on the current difficulty
without the need to explore too much of a person’s
background. It
is a collaborative process between therapist and client
and often involves work for the client in between
sessions. It
has been well researched and is recommended by the
National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) as the
treatment of choice for a wide range of difficulties
from depression and anxiety to eating disorders and
obsessive compulsive disorder.
It has been highly effective for a large number
of people.
CBT has been shown to be effective for many conditions
including:
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