Beck and Ellis would be considered the founding fathers of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). The numerous strategies that comprise CBT reflect its complex and integrative history and include conditioning, modeling, cognitive restructuring, problem solving, and the development of personal coping strategies, mastery, and a sense of self-control (Benjamin, Puleo, Settipani, Brodman, Edmunds, Cummings, & Kendall, 2002). Intervention looks at altering the environment (social) and cognitive processing (psychological) by identifying and restructuring cognitive distortions.
CBT is at the forefront of therapy techniques that have empirical evidence support, likewise it can be adapted into other therapies. There is high empirical