COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION There are multiple different treatments used when trying to cure depression, one of the more successful treatments being cognitive therapy. Jorden Cummings, a psychologist, describes cognitive therapy (CT) as being "a time-limited, problem-focused, directive therapy that typically includes 14 to 16 weekly sessions (50 minutes each), but it can last longer for more severe and chronic depression" (Cummings). Cummings also states that this form of therapy is most often performed as individual therapy, but cognitive therapy also has opportunities to be a group therapy if the patient would benefit from doing so. Cognitive therapy has risen to being one of the most widely practiced and researched psychotherapies
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Wagner expresses in her article that recovery rates are generally high but the chances of relapse are also considerably high, around 50%. In her article, Wagner uses a controlled trail of depressed adolescents to determine whether the use of antidepressants, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), or the use of the two combined were more effective in treating their disorder. Wagner found that the use of the antidepressant, fluoxetine, had higher success then the placebo. The combination of CBT and fluoxetine also had higher success than the placebo, while CBT alone was still higher than the placebo, but not nearly as dramatic as the antidepressant, or the …show more content…
However, for certain individuals the feelings of anxiety become too much to handle, reaching levels that impair the individual from functioning normally. Anxiety disorders were first noticed by The American Psychiatric Association in 1980. The previous concept of it, the state of neurosis, was eventually abandoned because it was considered too vague of an explanation. PD, PTSD, social phobias, specific phobias, OCD, and GAD are all included in anxiety disorders. An estimated amount of 23 million people in the United States suffer from anxiety disorder, with the total cost of anxiety disorder being $42.3 billion per year, as both direct and indirect expenses. (Vermetten)
Wendy Heller, psychologist and author of Anxiety Disorders, explains that not all anxiety should necessarily be considered bad, "It is an adaptive response... an appropriate fear response to a threatening situation enhances the likelihood of taking an action that would promote survival" (Heller). Although when anxiety levels become too high they become "maladaptive", often leading to problems to occur in various parts of life.
Wagner expresses in her article that recovery rates are generally high but the chances of relapse are also considerably high, around 50%. In her article, Wagner uses a controlled trail of depressed adolescents to determine whether the use of antidepressants, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), or the use of the two combined were more effective in treating their disorder. Wagner found that the use of the antidepressant, fluoxetine, had higher success then the placebo. The combination of CBT and fluoxetine also had higher success than the placebo, while CBT alone was still higher than the placebo, but not nearly as dramatic as the antidepressant, or the …show more content…
However, for certain individuals the feelings of anxiety become too much to handle, reaching levels that impair the individual from functioning normally. Anxiety disorders were first noticed by The American Psychiatric Association in 1980. The previous concept of it, the state of neurosis, was eventually abandoned because it was considered too vague of an explanation. PD, PTSD, social phobias, specific phobias, OCD, and GAD are all included in anxiety disorders. An estimated amount of 23 million people in the United States suffer from anxiety disorder, with the total cost of anxiety disorder being $42.3 billion per year, as both direct and indirect expenses. (Vermetten)
Wendy Heller, psychologist and author of Anxiety Disorders, explains that not all anxiety should necessarily be considered bad, "It is an adaptive response... an appropriate fear response to a threatening situation enhances the likelihood of taking an action that would promote survival" (Heller). Although when anxiety levels become too high they become "maladaptive", often leading to problems to occur in various parts of life.