Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapy based on
modifying cognitions, assumptions, beliefs and behaviors, with the aim
of influencing disturbed emotions. The general approach, developed out
of behavior modification, Cognitive Therapy and Rational Emotive
Behavior Therapy, has become widely used to treat various kinds of
neuroses and psychopathology, including mood disorders and anxiety
disorders. The particular therapeutic techniques vary according to the
particular kind of client or issue, but commonly include keeping a
diary of significant events and associated feelings, thoughts and
behaviors; questioning and testing cognitions, assumptions,
evaluations and beliefs that might be unhelpful and unrealistic;
gradually facing activities which may have been avoided; and trying...