Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a type of treatment for mental health that focuses on challenging cognitive distortions, or problems in our thoughts, and changing our behaviour to develop personal coping strategies.
It helps to identify and change disturbing or disruptive thought patterns that have an undesirable influence on our behaviour and emotions.
• CBT focuses on changing automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) that may contribute to depression, anxiety, and worsen emotional problems.
• It enables you to identify, challenge, and replace these automatic and disruptive thought patterns with more realistic and healthy processes.
• The aim is not to remove all negative thoughts but to convert unhealthy ones into helpful ones.
• CBT is a combination of research and clinical practice, effective for depression, substance abuse, anxiety disorders, marital or relationship problems, eating disorders, and other mental illnesses. It is designed to bring about change in the individual’s thought, behaviour, and emotions.
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