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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Also Known As CBT
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Cognitive behavioral therapy is the school and clinical movement that combines cognitive psychology's focus on thought patterns with behaviorism's focus on learned, modifiable behavior, aiming to reduce symptoms of mental health conditions by identifying and adjusting distorted convictions and assumptions. Albert Ellis's rational emotive behavior therapy, introduced publicly in 1956, and Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy, developed while Beck was working as a psychoanalyst in the 1950s and published in 1967, are its two founding lines of work, merging into classical CBT as cognitive and behavioral approaches combined during the 1970s.
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Central QuestionCan distorted, maladaptive patterns of thought be identified and directly restructured to relieve psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety, in the same structured, testable way behavior itself can be modified? 1 Founded Year Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Cognitive therapy was developed by psychoanalyst Aaron Beck in the 1950s.
1. Wikipedia: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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It aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions by challenging and adjusting convictions and assumptions.
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In the late 1950s, Aaron Beck was conducting free association sessions in his psychoanalytic practice. During these sessions, Beck noticed that thoughts were not as unconscious as Freud had previously theorized, and that certain types of thinking may be the culprits of emotional distress.
Wikipedia: Albert Ellis
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He is generally considered to be one of the originators of the cognitive revolutionary paradigm shift in psychotherapy and an early proponent and developer of cognitive-behavioral therapies.
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