Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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eGPS offers "guided self-help treatment", which is based on the principles of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; CBT, is a treatment with strong clinical evidence-base to deal with different mood problems, such as depression (Beck, 1967), panic disorder (Clark, 1986),social anxiety disorder (Clark & Wells, 1995) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (Salkovskis, 1985).
Cognitive behavioral therapy mainly consists of 3 main components, including automatic response, behavior and cognition. Regardless of the types of emotions (e.g, depression, anger, worries), these emotions are affecting our automatic response, behavior and cognition. Meanwhile, our automatic response, behavior and cognition are affecting each other, forming a vicious cycle, to continue the negative mood, forming a difficulty in self-healing in mood problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy mainly changes behavior or cognition, for example, planning proactive healthy ways to face emotions, having less avoidance, or unhelpful thinking patterns, to break the maintenance of the vicious cycle.
Of course you might be wondering if there is other psychological therapy other than cognitive behavioral therapy. You can refer to the following table to understand different therapies and effectiveness, to decide the therapy that is right for you.
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Physical Sensations
Behavior
Cognition
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Behavioral Activation CCC
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CCC
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Interpersonal psychotherapy CCC
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Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy CCC
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Guided Online Therapy CC
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Problem Solving Therapy CC
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Psychodynamic Therapy CC
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Relational Therapy CC
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Reminiscence Therapy CC
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Supportive Psychotherapy C
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Acceptance and commitment therapy C
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Animal Therapy C
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Dance Therapy C
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Hypnosis Therapy
(Beware of side effect!) C -
Music Therapy C
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CCC
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Computer Therapy C
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Psychodynamic Therapy C
Panic Disorder/ Agoraphobia
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CCC
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Exposure and Habituation CC
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Computer Therapy CC
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Psychodynamic Therapy C
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Virtual Reality Psychotherapy C
Social Anxiety Disorder
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CCC
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Behavior Therapy CC
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Computer Therapy CC
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Psychodynamic Therapy C
Specific Phobia
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Exposure and Habituation CCC
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy CCC
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Virtual Reality Psychotherapy CCC
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Computer Therapy CC
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Progressive Muscle Relaxation C
Post-traumatic stress disorder
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Exposure Therapy CCC
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CCC
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing CCC
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Narrative Therapy CC
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Computer Therapy CC
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Virtual Reality Therapy C
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Exposure and Response Prevention CCC
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CCC
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Computer Therapy C
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More C means better clinical treatment outcome
References::
Beck, A. T. (1967). Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Clark, D. M. (1986). A cognitive approach to panic. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 24, 461-470.
Clark, D. M., & Wells, A. (1995). A cognitive model of social phobia. Social phobia: Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment, 41, 22-3.
Salkovskis, P. M. (1985). Obsessional-compulsive problems: A cognitive-behavioural analysis. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 23, 571-583.