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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

noun

  1. a form of therapy in which, having learnt to understand their anxiety, patients attempt to overcome their usual behavioural responses to it

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Sessions of cognitive behavioural therapy are then offered if self-help treatment is found to not be enough.

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The way mental health chatbots are created varies, but they can be trained in practices such as cognitive behavioural therapy, which helps users to explore how to reframe their thoughts and actions.

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The therapists have used a combination of different talking therapy approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy which focuses on changing the way we think and behave, alongside other techniques to improve relationships and process trauma.

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For six months, she tried to manage her anxiety herself, but eventually the family decided to pay for a talking therapy called cognitive behavioural therapy.

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Ms Hamilton was again signed off by her GP in August 2021 with "work-related stress" and was undergoing cognitive behavioural therapy when she resigned in January 2022.

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