CBT

• What type of treatment is CBT?

  Cognitive
• what does cbt stand for?

  cognitive behavioural therapy
• what does the patient do?

  Patient identifies maladaptive and irrational thought processes and challenges them to change to rational ones
• what is thinking seen as doing?

  thinking is seen as underpinning the behaviour so changing the thoughts should change the behavioru
• give a strength of CBT?

  Has been found to have longer lasting effects than behavioural therapies, this suggested because it is treating the ROOT CAUSE of the phobia.