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Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT) is a relatively short term intervention, is considered the most effective treatment for many mental health problems. It represents a unique category in psychological interventions as it originates from both the behavioural and cognitive psychological models of human function, these include theories of emotion, psychopathology and developmental theories (both normal and abnormal).

Behaviour therapy, being the earliest of the cognitive and behavioural psychotherapies, is based on the clinical applications of extensively researched theories of behaviour, foremost of which are the roles of classical and operant conditioning. Behavioural approaches do not necessarily investigate the role of cognition and cognitive processes in the development or maintenance of emotional disorders.

Cognitive therapies are based on the clinical application of the more recent, but also extensively researched, prominent role of cognitions in the development of emotional disorders.

‘Cognitive Behavioural Therapy’ is not a therapy per se, but a collection of therapies including behaviour therapy, cognitive therapy, and other therapies based on the pragmatic combination of the behavioural and cognitive theories.

Adrian Soden

“Cognitive behavioural therapy is the most pragmatic therapy there is and one of the few endorsed by the Government because it actually has a measurable success rate.”

Amy Jenkins, The Independent