Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Intro - Froggatt

A Brief Introduction To Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy

By Wayne Froggatt

This version: Jul-2009

 

Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is based on the concept that emotions and behaviours result (primarily, though not exclusively) from cognitive processes; and that it is possible for human beings to modify such processes to achieve different ways of feeling and behaving. There are a number of ‘cognitive-behavioural’ therapies, which, although developed separately, have many similarities.