CBT
combination of the basic principles of behavioral and cognitive psychology.
CBT
thoughts, cognitive distortions and behaviors can be reduced through challenging harmful patterns and learning new information processing and coping skills.
Cognitivebehavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on our thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems. Its’ uses have been expanded from treating only depression, to include a number of mental health conditions. When compared to psychoactive medication, review studies have found CBT alone to be as effective for treating less severe forms of depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, eating disorders, borderline personality disorders and more. Some research suggests that CBT is most effective when combined with medication for treating mental disorders such as major depressive disorder.
CBT and Psychoanalysis
CBT is problem focused, and action oriented. Directed at specific disorders, with the goal of finding effective strategies to address specific issues.
Psychoanalytic approach looks for unconscious meaning behind the behaviors than forms a diagnosis.