Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

According to the textbook, behavioral and cognitive therapies are closely related that it is “rare” not to find them mentioned together in variety of literature. However, despite having such near commonalities, both therapies are unique in their own way when assisting the needs of a client.
Behavioral therapy deals with changing the maladaptive behavior that the induvial has learned from their environment via operant or classical conditioning and observational learning or vicarious conditioning. Behaviorist are concerned with the current behaviors that are observable and attempt to disengage the connection of the stimulus and undesired response that in a way has lead the client to become self-destructive. In order to break that unwanted response behaviorist have a variety of therapeutic techniques that are catered to the needs of the client, some of which include exposure therapies and assertiveness training. …show more content…
Cognitive therapy treatment deals with the following three aspects: assisting the client to identify the maladaptive thought, refute those thoughts when they have learned to recognize them, and replace them with more accurate and adaptive ones by arming them with the necessary skills to challenge them. In order to fulfill these three aspects a selection of approaches has also been implemented, some of which include psychoeducation and Socratic questing and guided discovery. Psychoeducation is aimed at providing the client with education about the role of cognitions in disorders such as by providing them homework, a recommended video or diagrams. Socratic questioning and guided discovery is a form of dialogue the therapist follows by use of questions from the present topic of concern. The idea is to guide the client in their discussion to see their thoughts as just ideas not necessarily making them certain or set in