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Cognitive behavioural therapy
A method with well-established evidence for treating emotional and behavioural difficulties, in adults as well as in children and adolescents.
Cognitive behavioural therapy has a strong evidence base for the treatment of emotional and behavioural difficulties. It is used to reduce symptoms in adults as well as in children and adolescents, across mood and anxiety disorders — including obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD, tics and eating disorders — as well as impulsive and aggressive behaviour.
What it involves
CBT rests on the premise that changing maladaptive thinking — the kind that distorts and causes suffering — changes mood and behaviour in turn. The therapist uses CBT techniques to help you examine your own thinking patterns and beliefs, and to replace thinking errors with more realistic and more useful thoughts.
CBT assumes that dysfunctional ways of responding were learned over the course of development, and can therefore be unlearned, or replaced by new ways of functioning. Put simply: anyone can learn to think about themselves, the world and other people in ways that support daily life rather than undermine it.
I am a certified cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist (certificate no. 1182) and completed a four-year postgraduate course at the School of Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapy at SWPS University in Sopot.