Assignment on Therapeutic Interventions

Running head: THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS
Therapeutic interventions
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Introduction:
CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a popular kind of talk therapy or psychotherapy. It
helps in becoming aware of the negative or inaccurate thinking such that on can see the problematic
situations clearly/. Thus one can react to them effectively. It is highly useful tool. It can work alone
or with other type of therapies. This is to treat various health disorders like PTSD or “post-traumatic
stress disorder”, depression and eating disorder. However, it is not that all the people having
advantages from the CBT comprise of any mental health situation. This is an influential tool in
helping people to learn the way to manage stressful life situations better (Dobson & Dobson, 2018).
It is a kind of psychotherapeutic treatments helping the patients in understanding feelings and
thoughts that affect the behaviors. This aims at teaching patients that as they are unable to control all
aspect of the world across them, they are able to control the way they deal and interpret with things
in their surroundings. In the following study, the overview of the practice along with the ways this is
applicable for the clinical setting is demonstrated. Then, the various things learnt regarding the
intervention chosen are evaluated in this study.
Demonstrating and applying the understanding and knowledge of Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy:
Providing an overview:
The CBT lies on the basis of some core principles. The psychological problems lies on the
basis of, in part, on learned patterns of various unhelpful type behavior and unhelpful or faulty
methods of thinking. The ones who are been suffering from such psychological issues are able to
learn smarter methods to cope with them. Thus they can relive the symptoms (Hayes & Hofmann,
2018). Further, they turn more efficient in their lives. It commonly includes efforts of changing the

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patterns of thinking. For this, the strategies involve the learning of development of higher sense of
confidence in individual abilities, utilizing skills of problem solving for dealing with complex
situations, getting better knowledge of motivation and behavior of other people. Moreover, it also
comprise of identifying the distortions to think that are generating issues and reevaluate them under
the light of truth (Hofmann & Otto, 2017).
Application of CBT in clinical support:
Efficacy of the cognitive therapy is to treat depression that is documented well. For example,
the research is mainly conducted with the outpatients having non-psychotic and unipolar depression.
Like a recent research of fifteen studies are conducted that the cognitive behavior therapy has been
effective as medication to treat depressed outpatients (Karyotaki et al., 2017). Here, the combination
of the treatments has been effective than the only one and maximum researches showed that
cognitive behavior therapy is applicable equally to more endogenous and severe kinds of
depressions. Besides, the controlled studies has been attesting efficacy of the cognitive behavior
therapy to treat the agoraphobia and panic to the superiority therapy, drugs and relaxation. The
prolonged impacts of the cognitive behavior therapy has been superior to other type of techniques.
Then there is the post traumatic stress disorder. For example, encouraging results are found in
various reports with the highlight for the necessity for more empirical support for particular
cognitive elements of treatments (Watkins, 2018). Further, there is are energizes anxiety disorder. As
per review of eleven studies using CBT for using common anxiety disorder denotes the methods to
be least influential as anxiolytic and superior to places of no treatments. This includes the outcomes
of treatments in reproaches of the prolonged follow u that are also encouraging in nature. Next, there
is social phobia. Thus, despite with poorer memories of the current social interactions rather than the
social phobic, control subjects for conducting longer post mortems as social encounters are typified
through adverse individual evaluation. Ultimately the process lead to behavioral avoidances
(Seyffert et al., 2016). Further, there are compulsive or obsessive disorders. Here, some review of