"Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - It's actually a technique. It seems very very simple. It will just show you that you've got to look at your thoughts, what you're saying to yourself, and then you look at the truth behind it."

~  Garry McDonald ~

Mainstream cognitive behavioral therapy assumes that changing maladaptive thinking leads to change in affect and behavior,but recent variants emphasize changes in one's relationship to maladaptive thinking rather than changes in thinking itself. The goal of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is not to diagnose a person with a particular disease, but to look at them as a whole and decide what needs to be fixed. The basic steps in a Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment include
Step 1: Identify critical behaviors
Step 2: Determine whether critical behaviors are excesses or deficits
Step 3: Evaluate critical behaviors for frequency, duration, or intensity (obtain a baseline)
Step 4: If excess, attempt to decrease frequency, duration, or intensity of behaviors; if deficits, attempt to increase behaviors.  Wiki

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