Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a scientifically based psychotherapy method that focuses on the relationship between our thoughts, emotions and behaviors. Its basic logic is this:
👉 How we interpret those events affects us more than the events we experience.

🔹 The main goal of CIS

Person:

• Realize unrealistic, negative and dysfunctional thoughts

• Replace these thoughts with healthier and more realistic ones

• To ensure that the child transforms his/her problematic behavior.

🔹 In what situations is it used?

CBT is most often effective in the following areas:

• Depression

• Anxiety disorders

• Panic attack

• Phobias

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

• Anger management problems

• Stress management

• Eating disorders

🔹 How to apply?

CIS:

• Short-term and target-oriented

• Usually takes 8–20 sessions

• Therapist and client work together (an active process)

• Homework can be given (such as keeping a thought record, conducting behavioral experiments)

🔹 Basic techniques

• Recognizing automatic thoughts

• Questioning the thought (is there evidence, could there be another explanation?)

• Behavioral experiments

• Exposure (confronting avoided situations)

• Relaxation and breathing exercises

🔹 Advantages

✔ Its effectiveness has been scientifically proven
✔ It is an instructive therapy (teaches the person to be his own therapist)
✔ It can be applied in daily life
✔ Provides permanent skills