Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective psychotherapy in the form that has been proven by numerous clinical studies in the treatment of various psychiatric disorders. The roots of the development of behavioral therapy in the early 20th century, correlated with various cognitive therapies in the 1960s and the consequent merging of these techniques. American cognitive therapist Michael Shvarzblat considers the main focus was to start was on the treatment of depression. He thought that

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... epression was a thought distortion. The main guidelines of cognitive behavioral therapy are for the therapeutic and the inpatient to work together as a team in identifying and solving problems. Therapeutic helps patients overcome difficulties, changing their thoughts, behaviors and emotional responses. When people are in distress, opinion distortion is often present. Cognitive Therapy helps to identify such thoughts and evaluate them in relation to reality, learns how to change distorted thoughts to make them feel better. Behavioral and cognitive therapists are usually healthcare professionals, such as doctors, psychologists, nurses, social workers, counselors, and the like. The main features of cognitive behavioral therapy are: Cognitive behavioral therapy is based on a cognitive model of emotional reactions. Cognitive behavioral therapy is based on the scientific facts that our thoughts mature into our feelings and behaviors, not external things in themselves, such as people, situations or events. To mean that we can change the way we think and feel better, even though the situation has not changed. Cognitive behavioral therapy is shorter and limited in time Cognitive behavioral therapy is among the "fastest" therapies to achieve desired therapeutic outcomes. The average number of encounters he has (regardless of the type of problem) is only 16. Other forms of therapy, such as psychoanalysis, can take years. What allows cognitive behavioral therapy to be shorter than the others is the highly instructive nat [...]