Strengths Of The Cognitive Behavioral Approach

The strengths of the cognitive-behavioral approaches are connecting a diagnosis to specific interventions and having empirical data backing up the interventions’ effectiveness. The cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) addresses symptoms of a diagnosis. Researchers such as Landes, Garovov, and Burkman (2013) have identified treatment strategies for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) using various CBT models. Reduction of symptoms is the central focus of this type of treatment (see Kleim, et al., 2013; Landes, et al., 2013). The CBT addresses problematic aspects of PTSD effectively by identifying the cognitive mechanism (see Kleim, et al., 2013).
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