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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Relevant information about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
- An overview of the treatment
Cognitive behavioral therapies are based on the scientific practice of psychology. From this approach, operating time on behavior, thoughts, emotions and physiological responses that mean discomfort for the patient.
One of the assumptions on which these rates are sustained therapeutic intervention indicates that the current behavior modification leads parallel to the change in the perception that the patient has of the history of his problem and itself.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is based on four research areas: classical learning, operant learning, social learning and cognitive learning. In each case, the object of study is human behavior.
- What problem/ s is expected to be solved
Cognitive behavioral therapies have an operational objective point, that is, identify the variables that allow the modification of behavior that creates discomfort in the patient. It should also know that high is a goal of treatment.
Thus, the cognitive behavioral therapist plays a direct work towards changing the thoughts, emotions and behavior under the agreement previously established with the patient. This means that you are working on a plan of action explicit.
Besides the specificity of the objectives, this type of therapies foments a global improvement in the handling of the emotions and the well-being that becomes extensive to other scopes of the routine character, as they are labor and the social one. Thus, the patient perceives that not only changed one or the other behavior, but the overall style of perceiving and interpreting events.
In general, therapeutic intervention is structured in three parts. In principle, involves the careful assessment of the case. That is, made an explanatory hypothesis about the problems that brings the person and outlines the goals of treatment.
From these assumptions, we reach the second phase: the intervention itself, that is, the use of therapeutic techniques aimed at achieving the objectives. While the therapist works actively, a joint effort of the patient. In many cases the therapist will design programs of activities and tasks for the patient to do at home. Here, it is essential that the patient assume the position of protagonist.
Finally, is the monitoring or evaluation of the implementation of the therapeutic program. At this point, make the necessary adjustments to maintain the changes achieved.
In some situations can be worked with family, friends or partner who has the problem. Providing clear information and tools, the therapist can guide the patient's environment on the appropriateness of certain actions.
The average of treatments is six months. Of course this will vary according to each particular case, the severity and possible disorders. The temporal variation depends on the problem that motivates the therapy. The disturbance in borderline personality, for example, may exceed the year. Now, individuals who actually commit to therapy, often shorten the clinical work.
Numerous follow-up studies have shown that in general the symptoms eliminated through behavioral cognitive therapy not return. In fact, for some groups of syndromes, such as anxiety disorders, efficiency levels are around 90% of cases. This information is relevant given the high incidence of such diseases. Social phobias and obsessive compulsive disorders are cases of anxiety disorders.
The research reported relapse correspond to certain diseases such as schizophrenia or antisocial personality disorder. In substance dependence disorders, the efficacy rates are also very low: only half of patients treated in therapeutic communities operating on the principles of cognitive behavioral therapies remain abstinent for more than two years.
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