Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a type of talking therapy which looks at your current thoughts and beliefs and sees how these effect your behaviour, confronting those that you want to change and looking for other thoughts and behaviours to replace them, which are working for you, rather than against you. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can be done on an individual basis or in groups with a councillor or therapist, or can be done by yourself by following a book, CD or online course.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is recommended as the treatment of choice for a number of mental health difficulties, including clinical depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and bulimia nervosa by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK.

NICE recommends these online CBT courses:

• Beating the Blues: Online course available free through the NHS if your doctor or payment authority will pay for this for you, or you can purchase access through BMI Hospitals.
• FearFighter: This is a method for delivering CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) on a computer (via the internet). Research has shown that FearFighter improves anxious or phobic patients as much as face to face therapy. FearFighter is also more readily available and more cost and time efficient. It can be accessed by referral from your GP, Health Worker or in some cases directly via self referral.

Other free online CBT courses include:

• Living Life to the Full: A free UK based site written by Dr. Chris Williams. Registration required..
• Mood Gym: Australian site for learning cognitive behaviour therapy skills for preventing and coping with depression. Registration required..
• E-couch: A free Australian self-help interactive program with modules for depression, generalised anxiety & worry, social anxiety, relationship breakdown, and loss & grief. It provides evidence-based information and teaches strategies drawn from cognitive, behavioural and interpersonal therapies as well as relaxation and physical activity. Registration required..

For more information about CBT go to: British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies www.babcp.com

Books On Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

 
Books On CBT For Depression

 
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