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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a structured, time-limited, evidence-based form of psychotherapy founded on the premise that maladaptive patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior are interconnected and can be modified through directed intervention. It integrates cognitive techniques, which identify and restru…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 39× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a structured, time-limited, evidence-based form of psychotherapy founded on the premise that maladaptive patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior are interconnected and can be modified through directed intervention. It integrates cognitive techniques, which identify and restructure distorted beliefs and automatic thoughts, with behavioral methods such as exposure, activity scheduling, and skills training. CBT and its derivatives are applied across a broad spectrum of psychological conditions, including mood disorders, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and dissociative presentations, and are frequently delivered alongside or in comparison with other psychosocial and pharmacological approaches. Research in this area examines treatment outcomes in controlled trials, the role of specific processes such as rumination and caregiver-child interaction in maintaining symptoms, and the adaptation of cognitive and behavioral models to particular populations and comorbidities, for example patients facing serious medical illness or chronic pain. Related strands include rumination-focused and cognitive-analytic variants, psychosocial interventions for bipolar disorder, and network-analytic study of depressive symptomatology. The approach is significant because it offers measurable, replicable interventions whose components can be tested and refined empirically. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on these therapeutic models, their mechanisms of change, and their effectiveness in clinical and community settings.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Pain between Psyche and Soma in Uro-Andrology

Pruneti CarloCorresponding author
Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychophysiology and Clinical Neuropsychology Labs., University of Parma, Italy.
Exact topic International Journal of Pain Management Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-20-3386
2018

Dissociative Amnesia – A Challenge to Therapy  

Staniloiu AngelicaCorresponding author
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Exact topic International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research Cited by 30 doi:10.14302/issn.2574-612X.ijpr-18-2246
2021

Aging and Positive Psychology

Marks RayCorresponding author
Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Exact topic Aging Research And Healthcare Cited by 6 doi:10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-21-3979

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 39 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Alternative Medicine and Mind Body Practices.

Journal editorial board
Akiko Tokinobu · Japan Ulrike Halsband · Germany Bruno Bordoni · Italy

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