cognitive-behavioral

Thinking affects doing

Cognitive-behavioral describes an approach to psychology and therapy that focuses on how thoughts and behaviors influence each other and affect emotional well-being.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) treats conditions like depression and anxiety by helping patients identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors: My therapist uses cognitive-behavioral techniques.

cognition

thoughts

Mental reflections

assumptions · appraisal · interpretation · perception · self-talk · rumination · catastrophizing · overgeneralization · mind-reading · fortune-telling

behavior

actions

Things someone does

exposure · activation · reinforcement · conditioning · responses · coping · skills · relaxation · desensitization · role-playing

disorders

anxiety

Persistent apprehensive distress

PTSD · panic · insomnia · addiction · trauma · stress · mood · personality · disorders · symptoms

therapy

CBT

Psychological treatment abbreviation

counseling · sessions · therapist · techniques · protocols · evidence-based · clinical · outpatient · structured · short-term

Opposites
therapeutic approach/orientation

cognitive-behavioralpsychoanalytic

Of unconscious-focused therapy

psychodynamic · Freudian · depth psychology · Jungian · humanistic

epistemological stance

cognitive-behavioralinterpretive

Explaining meaning or significance

hermeneutic · phenomenological · intuitive · unstructured · exploratory

focus of psychological intervention

cognitive-behavioralsomatic

Concerning the body

experiential · expressive · art therapy · movement therapy · dance therapy

Family

cognitive, behavioral, cognition, cognitions, cognitively, cognize, cognizable, recognize, recognition

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