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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) refers to a psychotherapeutic framework in which cognitions and behaviors are theorized to be the underlying core factors in the development and maintenance of psychological distress. According to the CBT model, maladaptive cognitions, or schemas, about the world and oneself result in emotional distress and problematic behaviors in the individual. The goal of cognitive behavioral therapy is to alter an individual’s maladaptive cognitions and problematic behaviors, which result in the alleviation of psychological distress.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapeutic intervention focused on the alteration of maladaptive cognitions and behaviors in the alleviation of psychological distress. CBT blends elements from both behavioral and cognitive therapies into a cohesive intervention in which both behaviors and thoughts are theorized to effect, and to be effected by, an...
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Dozier, M.E., Ayers, C.R. (2015). Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. In: Pachana, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_164-1
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