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Cognitive behaviour therapy is a way of talking about how you think about yourself, the world and other people, and how what you do affects your thoughts.
It is a way of talking about:
CBT can help you to change how you think ("Cognitive") and what you do ("Behaviour)". These changes can help you to feel better. Unlike some other talking treatments, it focuses on the "here and now" problems and difficulties. Instead of focussing on the causes of your distress or symptoms in the past, it looks for ways to improve your state of mind now.
CBT has been shown to help with many different types of problems. These include: anxiety, depression, panic, phobias (including agoraphobia and social phobia), stress, bulimia, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and psychosis. CBT may also help if you have difficulties with anger, a low opinion of yourself or physical health problems, like pain or fatigue.
How does it work?
CBT can help you to make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down into smaller parts. This makes it easier to see how they are connected and how they affect you. These parts are:
A Situation - a problem, event or difficult situation
From this can follow:
Each of these areas can affect the others. How you think about a problem can affect how you feel physically and emotionally. It can also alter what you do about it. There are helpful and unhelpful ways of reacting to most situations, depending on how you think about them.
Consultant Psychiatrist
MD MRCPscyh
The Kings Oak Hospital 1 more The Cavell Hospital
Consultant Psychiatrist
MB BS, PG DIP (CBT), MSc, FRCPsych
The Clementine Churchill Hospital 1 more Syon Clinic
Consultant Psychiatrist
MBBS, MRCPsych, MSc
The London Independent Hospital 1 more Hendon Hospital
Senior Chartered Clinical Psychologist
MA in Psychology (MA); Masters of Science (MSc) in Psychological Medicine; Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (D.Clin.Psych.)
Ross Hall Hospital 1 more Ross Hall Clinic Braehead
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
BSc(Hon), DClinPsychol, PhD CPsychol
Albyn Hospital