Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one form of counseling aimed at helping clients to become healthier, satisfying experience, and can meet the particular lifestyle, a way to modify the thinking and behavior. Cognitive approach to focus to put a thought, belief, or a form of self talk (self-talk) with others (for example, my life miserable so it is difficult to determine the purpose of my life). In addition, treatment also focuses on efforts to studied client has a way of thinking is more positive in life events and not just working to tackle the disease or disorder that is experiencing. In other words, cognitive counseling focused on managing and monitoring the activities he thought patterns so that the client can reduce the negative thoughts and change the contents of the mind in order to get more positive emotions. Behavioral Counseling while focusing on the activities (actions) done client, determine the form of rewards (rewards) that can encourage the client to perform certain actions, giving an unpleasant consequence, in order to prevent clients that do not perform the desired action.
History of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can be traced from the early pioneers of psychology, except for cognitive counseling. What is actually practiced today has been developed since the 50’s and 60’s. Entering the 70s, the flow of thinkers and practitioners of cognitive and behavioral (behavioral) tried to combine both approaches resulting in Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling. Since the 80s until today, Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling has been developed and has its own charm because its effectiveness has been proven and capable of providing service in a shorter time, compared with traditional psychoanalysis or other psychotherapy.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can be used in order to help tackle the problems of individuals: such as: depression, anxiety and panic disorders, or in dealing with other life events, such as: death, divorce, disability, unemployment, problems associated with child children and stress.
In Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), the counselor and client work together to identify and change thought patterns and negative behaviors that cause physical-emotional disorders. The focus of this therapy is to try to change your mind or talk about yourself (self talk).
Process Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps clients identify and correct the specific errors of what he thinks and cause negative feelings and painful. Any form of distorted thinking this may affect the client’s level of emotion and behavior.
In treating people who experience psychological difficulties, the most effective point for intervention is performed at the level of the mind that causes pain. If the thinking process can be successfully changed, (assumptions, beliefs, values), then automatically changes in emotion and behavior will follow.
Various techniques and strategies of behavioral therapy can be used to improve the treatment outcome (anger management techniques, meditation, relaxation exercises, and assertive training, and so on). Unlike traditional counseling process generally, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TKB) is more focused on results and objectives, including the results of short-term (immediate) of the counseling process underway, namely the achievement of positive experiences a relatively fast client with a feeling of progress more relieved and endurance.
Based on the results of a study recent decades, has shown that Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TKB) is a simple model of a successful and powerful as a form of psychological treatment. Currently Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TKB) has been widely adopted by professionals throughout the United States and internationally.
“This type of counseling is most effective in dealing with individuals who are intelligent, rational and willing to have the passion and pleasure in their lives,” says Beth Horwin, LPC, based on his experience as a therapist.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TKB) is a therapeutic process that takes many forms; there are at least 60 variations. In summary, Beth suggested Horwin process cognitive-behavioral counseling is, as follows: Assist clients in identifying, analyzing and managing beliefs, Allowing clients rely on his memory, and trying to validated, Placing emphasis on the beliefs and the client, about who he is and what her life purpose in this world, Maintain focus on efforts to improve the “overall life satisfaction”, rather than on efforts to decrease negative emotions, educate the student and provide the opportunity for clients to check / test back what she had said with reality itself, Identify and various practical skills (about setting goals and solving problems), and the last Continuing to do this job for the long run, after the counseling process is complete.
Source:
Beth Horwin, LPC, A Perspective on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
