CBT

CBT is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on how a person’s thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes affect their feelings and behaviors,

During a course of CBT, a person can learn to:

• identify problems more clearly

• develop an awareness of automatic thoughts

• challenge underlying assumptions that may be wrong

• distinguish between facts and irrational thoughts

• understand how past experience can affect present feelings and beliefs

• stop fearing the worst

• see a situation from a different perspective

• better understand other people’s actions and motivations

• develop a more positive way of thinking and seeing situations

• become more aware of their own mood

• establish attainable goals

• avoid generalizations and all-or-nothing thinking

• stop taking the blame for everything

• focus on how things are rather than how they think they should be

• face their fears rather than avoid them

• describe, accept, and understand rather than judge themselves or others