13) What is CBT ?
A Series of "short introductions" to Mental Health. By Peter Thompson Dip.Couns. MNCPS (Acc.) 13) What is CBT? Some people refer to CBT as a quick fix. This is certainly how employers and emergency services use it when offering counselling to employees and service people. It causes the client to re-learn how to process their thoughts, so that scenarios and events that currently cause them issues such as anxiety are reduced in effect. Although Pavlov and his dogs may have paved the way, it came about in the mid- 50's when Albert Ellis developed REBT (Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy) and Aaron Beck developed Cognitive Therapy . With these two leading the way and others following in their wake new approaches were introduced to assist people with damaging thought processes such as living with life challenges, disabilities, alcohol, fear, anxiety and depression as well as many more. It asks the client to become more aware of the difference between Rational and Irrational th...