What is Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
It wasnt long ago that very few people had heard the term “cognitive – behavioral therapy”. With the outpouring of research in the 1980s, and the studies on anxiety disorders that were published in the 1990s, the term “cognitive behavioral therapy”, or CBT, gained acceptance and became well known. But even though the term itself became well known, just what “cognitive- behavioral therapy” involved was less well understood. Meanwhile, in study after study, cognitive behavioral therapy began to prove to be the therapy of choice for many mental health care problems, including depression and the anxiety disorders. In fact, large-scale, long-range (i.e., longitudinal) studies over the past decade have consistently shown cognitive behavioral therapy to be the only therapy that can be dependably relied upon to help people overcome clinical anxiety disorders. While this was good news, some rather large questions continued to cloud the horizon. For example, each study defined CBT in a different
