Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Essay 2022

Running head: COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
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Introduction
Around the different countries of this world, the issue of mental health problems has
become very common and a countable number of people are suffering from this condition.
Day by day, the numbers of this mental health patients are enhancing and in order to manage
the condition, along with the pharmacological therapy various other behavioural therapies are
also offered to the patients for better health outcome. The most common behavioural
therapies for the mental health disorder are cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), Dialectal
behavioural therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing (Romano & Peters, 2015).
In this essay, the idea of CBT is discussed in a brief manner along with its
effectiveness among the mental health patients.
Discussion
Cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT is a goal oriented short term psychological
therapy that aims to change the pattern of thinking of the individuals suffering from different
types of mental health disorders. It is mainly interactive therapy through which the therapist
wants to know about the distressed feeling of the individuals and in some cases, it was
reported that the use of this therapy is more effective than that of the conventional treatment
process. Furthermore, it is reported that this therapy aims to remove or minimize the negative
thoughts of an individual during the therapy sessions in order to make the patient feel better
(Battagliese et al., 2015).
As per the information of NHS, it can be reported that the CBT can change the way of
thinking and behaviour of the individuals through the process of detail interaction. Therefore,
this therapy is mostly used in treatment of anxiety and depression; however, in case of other
mental health disorder, CBT can be used by the mental health practitioners. For example, it

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can be stated that CBT can be used in the treatment of bipolar disorder, borderline personality
disorder, schizophrenia, panic disorder, insomnia, phobia related problems (NHS, 2020).
During a CBT session, the patient may have to attend the session once a week or once per 2
week time period. The course of the treatment process generally lasts for 5- 20 sessions with
30- 60 minutes in each of the session. During the sessions, the patient will work with the
therapist to break down his or her problems related to his feelings, thoughts, behaviour and
actions in order to analyse them properly. After that the therapist will work on those findings
and should suggest the patients how he or she can overcome this condition and the patient
should practice those changes in his or her activities of daily life to change the thoughts and
behaviour towards positivity (Stallard, 2019).
Mostly the CBT is used to treat depression and anxiety in the clinical care setting and
in various studies, the effectiveness of this therapy is well established. According to the study
of Towmey, O’Reilly and Byrne (2015) it was reported that use of CBT in treating depression
and anxiety was very effective. In this meta-analysis study almost 29 RCT studies were
included and study result showed that the use of multi-modal CBT was more effective than
that of the no primary care treatment and primary care treatment as usual (TAU) in treating
depression and anxiety. Moreover, it was also reported that the combination of multi-modal
CBT and primary care TAU was more effective in depression than primary care TAU. The
study of Wiles et al. (2016) presented different insights towards the effectiveness of the CBT
in the clinical care setting. In this context, it can be stated that this study focused on the
economic effectiveness of CBT and study findings reported that the use of CBT was cost
effective compared to usual care process that was use of antidepressant in case of long term
care process and this process had the cost of £343 per year per patients. In another study by
Oud et al. (2019), the effectiveness of CBT was shown in case of treating children and
adolescents. In this study almost 4335 patients were included from the 31 trials. The study