What is the efficacy of different forms of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for individuals with depression and/or anxiety?
There are different forms of the CBT approaches, such as in person with therapist, self-help with books, computer based self-administered therapy, via use of mobile phone or a combination with other approach. According to Williams et al. (2016), only 10-50% individuals receive treatment for depression. The WHO mental health Gap Action Program recommend CBT guided self-help approach along with traditional face-to face approach to gain access to psychological therapies to cover the gap (Williams et al. 2016). I chose my research topic to review if there are positive and desired results in using other forms of CBT just as …show more content…
Dugas, M. J., Francis, K., & Bouchard, S. (2009). Cognitive behavioral therapy and applied relaxation for generalized anxiety disorder: a time series analysis of change in worry and somatic anxiety. Cognitive Behavior Therapy, 38(1), 29-41. doi:10.1080/16506070902980745
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I used the Walden library and clicked on the “Articles by Topic” link, then I clicked on “Search Multiple Databases” and chose “Thoreau Multi-Database Search”, which searches many databases for at the same time looking for matching results. I used Boolean search and used keywords “Quantitative OR Statistic* OR Correlation*”, “Depression or anxiety” and “CBT” with “AND” operator choice between each field. …show more content…
Combination of approaches and techniques such as CBT and AR can be helpful in reducing symptoms of GAD (Donegan & Dugas, n.d). The cognitive therapy focus on individual’s thinking patterns and beliefs while behavioral techniques like relaxation techniques is used to control the exposure of the thoughts that needs to be avoided to help individuals learn that their fears do not come true and it can be helpful in reducing anxiety (Donegan & Dugas, n.d). My chosen article examined the symptom change profile in clients with GAD. I selected this article because it uses of quantitative method of study to prove the bidirectional relationship between changes in somatic anxiety for clients using CBT and changes in worry by AR. This study examines symptoms change in clients with GAD receiving either CBT or AR and how they affect somatic anxiety and worry. This study is related to my research question because it is based on the analysis of changes in worry and somatic anxiety with the help of using CBT and
There are different forms of the CBT approaches, such as in person with therapist, self-help with books, computer based self-administered therapy, via use of mobile phone or a combination with other approach. According to Williams et al. (2016), only 10-50% individuals receive treatment for depression. The WHO mental health Gap Action Program recommend CBT guided self-help approach along with traditional face-to face approach to gain access to psychological therapies to cover the gap (Williams et al. 2016). I chose my research topic to review if there are positive and desired results in using other forms of CBT just as …show more content…
Dugas, M. J., Francis, K., & Bouchard, S. (2009). Cognitive behavioral therapy and applied relaxation for generalized anxiety disorder: a time series analysis of change in worry and somatic anxiety. Cognitive Behavior Therapy, 38(1), 29-41. doi:10.1080/16506070902980745
Database
I used the Walden library and clicked on the “Articles by Topic” link, then I clicked on “Search Multiple Databases” and chose “Thoreau Multi-Database Search”, which searches many databases for at the same time looking for matching results. I used Boolean search and used keywords “Quantitative OR Statistic* OR Correlation*”, “Depression or anxiety” and “CBT” with “AND” operator choice between each field. …show more content…
Combination of approaches and techniques such as CBT and AR can be helpful in reducing symptoms of GAD (Donegan & Dugas, n.d). The cognitive therapy focus on individual’s thinking patterns and beliefs while behavioral techniques like relaxation techniques is used to control the exposure of the thoughts that needs to be avoided to help individuals learn that their fears do not come true and it can be helpful in reducing anxiety (Donegan & Dugas, n.d). My chosen article examined the symptom change profile in clients with GAD. I selected this article because it uses of quantitative method of study to prove the bidirectional relationship between changes in somatic anxiety for clients using CBT and changes in worry by AR. This study examines symptoms change in clients with GAD receiving either CBT or AR and how they affect somatic anxiety and worry. This study is related to my research question because it is based on the analysis of changes in worry and somatic anxiety with the help of using CBT and