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Cognitive behavioral therapy
(redirected from Cognitive behavioural therapy)

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cognitive behavioral therapy
n.
A highly structured psychotherapeutic method used to alter distorted attitudes and problem behavior by identifying and replacing negative inaccurate thoughts and changing the rewards for behaviors.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
A therapy that pays particular attention to a patient's behavior and thinking processes rather than underlying psychological causes of an activity.
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cognitive behavioral therapy Psychiatry Therapy that seeks to alleviate specific conditions–eg, phobias, by modifying thought and behavior Efficacy Uncertain. See Psychotherapy.


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It is a home-based cognitive behavioural therapy program that helps users to develop skills to cope better with the negative feelings associated with anxiety, such as fear, worry, nervousness or shyness.
The cool teens CD-ROM: a multimedia self-help program for adolescents ... by Lyneham, Heidi / Youth Studies Australia
Sample titles include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Mental Health Care, Grant, Alec, 2004, and Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, Pilcher, Jane, 2004.
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Treatments include cognitive behavioural therapy, interpersonal therapy and antidepressant medication--the latter treatment has been controversial but the decrease in youth suicide rates overall, parallels a rise in prescription of the drugs over the past 20 years.
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