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Who Can Benefit From Behavioral Therapy

Behavioral therapy seeks to identify and change unhealthy or self-destructive behaviors by focusing on current problems and solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps patients become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking and respond better to challenging situations. CBT is effective for depression, anxiety, PTSD and other disorders, and involves a limited number of sessions to change behaviors and thoughts. Rational emotive behavior therapy similarly identifies irrational beliefs that cause distress, challenges their rationality, and replaces them with healthier thoughts to improve relationships and quality of life.

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Who Can Benefit From Behavioral Therapy

Behavioral therapy seeks to identify and change unhealthy or self-destructive behaviors by focusing on current problems and solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps patients become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking and respond better to challenging situations. CBT is effective for depression, anxiety, PTSD and other disorders, and involves a limited number of sessions to change behaviors and thoughts. Rational emotive behavior therapy similarly identifies irrational beliefs that cause distress, challenges their rationality, and replaces them with healthier thoughts to improve relationships and quality of life.

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Behavioral therapy

Behaviour therapy is an umbrella term for types of therapy that treat mental health disorders.
This form of therapy seeks to identify and help change potentially self-destructive or unhealthy
behaviors. It functions on the idea that all behaviors are learned and that unhealthy behaviors
can be changed. The focus of treatment is often on current problems and how to change them.

Who can benefit from behavioral therapy:


Behavioral therapy can benefit people with a wide range of disorders.

People most commonly seek behavioral therapy to treat:

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Cognitive l therapy:
(CBT) is a common type of talk therapy (psychotherapy). You work with a mental health
counselor (psychotherapist or therapist) in a structured way, attending a limited number
of sessions. CBT helps you become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking so you
can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective
way.

Why it's done:


Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to treat a wide range of issues. It's often the
preferred type of psychotherapy because it can quickly help you identify and cope with
specific challenges. It generally requires fewer sessions than other types of therapy and
is done in a structured way.
CBT is a useful tool to address emotional challenges. For example, it may
help you:

 Manage symptoms of mental illness

 Prevent a relapse of mental illness symptoms

 Treat a mental illness when medications aren't a good option

 Cope with a medical illness

 Manage chronic physical symptoms

Mental health disorders that may improve with CBT include:

 Depression

 Anxiety disorders

 Phobias

 PTSD

 Sleep disorders

 Eating disorders

 Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

 Substance use disorders

 Bipolar disorders

 Schizophrenia

 Sexual disorders

In some cases, CBT is most effective when it's combined with other treatments, such as
antidepressants or other medications.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a short-term form of psychotherapy that
helps you identify self-defeating thoughts and feelings, challenge the rationality of those
feelings, and replace them with healthier, more productive beliefs. REBT focuses mostly
on the present time to help you understand how unhealthy thoughts and beliefs create
emotional distress which, in turn, leads to unhealthy actions and behaviors that interfere
with your current life goals. Once identified and understood, negative thoughts and
actions can be changed and replaced with more positive and productive behavior,
allowing you to develop more successful personal and professional relationships.

How It Works:
REBT evolved from the work of psychiatrist Albert Ellis in the mid-1950s as the original
form of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Ellis believed that most people are not aware that
many of their thoughts about themselves are irrational and negatively affect the way
they behave in important relationships and situations. According to Ellis, it is these
thoughts that lead people to suffer negative emotions and engage in self-destructive
behavior. At the same time, humans are capable of challenging and changing their
irrational beliefs, if they are willing to do the work. While specific life events may
contribute to mental health issues, REBT therapists believe that it is an individual’s own
faulty and irrational belief system that causes the most problems. By letting go of
negative thoughts and replacing them with positive beliefs, one is better able to accept
one’s self and others and, in turn, live a happier life.

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