Discuss The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
What is the cognitive-behavioral approach to therapy? Describe it: what does it look like, what does it do? Why has it become the dominant psychological approach for so many disorders? What evidence do we have for CBT’s effectiveness? What do the disorders that CBT works best for have in common? (Obviously, this requires you to determine and state which disorders CBT does work best for and which it possibly does not).
Use the following disorders to illustrate your answer: Panic Disorder, Illness Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar Disorder. Note that the essay is not primarily about these disorders, it is about CBT; you are meant only to use these as the examples to illustrate your answer. (Other disorders can be mentioned but your answer needs to consider some or all of these 4 disorders as you answer these questions).
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