What is CBT?

Cognitive behavioural therapy is:

• An evidenced-based psychological treatment or ‘talking therapy’
• Highly structured
• Goal orientated
• Concerned with emotions, unhelpful thinking and behaviour
• Collaborative
• Based on a coherent treatment rationale informed by cognitive theory
• Based on a psychological formulation to understand the factors that led to the problem
• Applied between sessions through the practice of skills and experiments as homework tasks