COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT

Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) is an empirically-based treatment approach that is utilized in the treatment for myriad psychiatric disorders.  It is a solution-focused approach that focuses on the present and helps patients identify and restructure maladaptive patterns of thinking and behaving, which results in changes in emotional experience and expression.

THOUGHTS-------------------------->BEHAVIORS----------------------->EMOTIONS

A change in ANY of these, will invariably result in a change in the other two.  Since everything we do as individuals begins with a thought, the goal of CBT is to CHANGE HOW AN INDIVIDUAL THINKS.