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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

There is no one single right way to do therapy. Not only do different mental disorders - obsessive-compulsive disorder as opposed to depression, for example - lend themselves to different types of therapy, but different patients are better served by some therapies than by others and different therapies work better with some therapist-patient clients than do others. This paper reviews three types of therapy that are widely applicable for a number of different clients, therapists, and conditions.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is an important therapeutic strategy for a range of serious psychological conditions as well as a number of potentially self-harmful behaviors that are not considered to be psychological conditions but that have psychopathological elements to them that an individual wishes to stop (such as smoking, with its addictive element). The basic goal of cognitive behavioral therapy is to reduce or even eliminate "the suffering of people with mental disorders by changing their behavior patterns" (http://www.realage.com).

Although it is a relatively new form of therapy, cognitive behavior therapy is derived from well-established psychological principals, including primarily classical conditioning. Classical conditioning, which is one of the most widely used models of learning (and therefore potential individual change) within psychology and psychotherapy, allows individuals to learn new forms of behavior. Classical learning (in which individuals learn to do something by associating an action with a positive reinforcement or associate the lack of taking such an action with a negative reinforcement) is the most important way in which individuals acquire habitual actions. Classical conditioning can substitute new patterns of behavior by establishing new associations in an individual's mind. This is true whether the behavior is something like smoking (which has some psychopathological elements to it) or the behaviors associat...

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