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Mental Health and Individual Differences

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is the most used technique for treating disorders which are anxiety-related. The basis of this therapy is Beck’s tri-part model of emotion which talks about feelings, behaviors and thoughts being interconnected with each other (Kaczkurkin & Foa, 2015). This theory mentions that changes made in thoughts which are maladapted alter the behavior of the patient which is maladaptive. The therapy usually aims at disturbed or distorted thoughts with the help of various techniques like identification of thinking which is inaccurate, checking the proof against and for thoughts which are automatic, challenging and altering the thoughts which are maladaptive and changing behavior which is problematic. Patients are given homework so that they can practice the skills in their everyday life which will allow them to acquire mastery of the techniques. Cognitive therapy here is used with the association of beh....