INTEGRATIVE HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS

Cognitive Behavior Therapy is a type of treatment that is based firmly on research findings. These approaches aid people in achieving specific changes or goals. Changes or goals might involve:

• A way of acting: like smoking less or being more outgoing;
• A way of feeling: like helping a person to be less scared, less depressed, or less anxious;
• A way of thinking: like learning to problem-solve or get rid of self-defeating thoughts;
• A way of dealing with physical or medical problems: like lessening back pain or helping a person stick to a doctor’s suggestions.

Cognitive Behavior Therapists usually focus more on the current situation and its solution, rather than the past. They concentrate on a person’s views and beliefs about their life, not on personality traits. Therapists treat individuals, parents, children, couples, and families. Replacing ways of living that do not work well with ways of living that work, and giving people more control over their lives, are common goals of behavior and cognitive behavior therapy. 

• The therapist and client work together with a mutual understanding that the therapist has theoretical and technical expertise, but the client is the expert on him- or herself.
• The therapist seeks to help the client discover that he/she is powerful and capable of choosing positive thoughts and behaviors.
• Treatment is often short-term. Clients actively participate in treatment in and out of session. Homework assignments often are included in therapy. The skills that are taught in these therapies require practice.
• Treatment is goal-oriented to resolve present-day problems. Therapy involves working step-by-step to achieve goals.
• The therapist and client develop goals for therapy together, and track progress toward goals throughout the course of treatment.