Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.  This type of therapy combines ideas from the cognitive and behavioral modalities.  Cognitive-behaviorists believe that thinking, questioning and then taking actions will lead to the changes needed for recovery.  Learning to change the way you think about your life will help you change way you act.  If you learn to change your thoughts, you can change what you do and say.  Ideally, your new thought and action choices will lead to a better reception by others in the world around you.  If people receive you better, you will become more successful in relationships, business, family, and social endeavors. 

Some techniques involve: changing negative thoughts to positive ones and destructive behaviors to behaviors that will lead to the outcome that you want.  Cognitive-behavioral therapists use many tactics like; humor, role playing, and homework in an arsenal to help you make positive life changes.  They ask you to challenge your interpretations of your life and to rethink self attacking feelings of shame and guilt.  The self defeating self labels and name calling are not important.  Instead, assessing your situations, making a realistic plan to get rid of the negative and accent the positive, and then to implement the new plan of living is the real path to happiness.  Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy is present and future focused.