Evaluation of CBT
- Created by: Laura Sweeney
- Created on: 12-12-12 10:13
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- Evaluation of CBT
- Advantages
- Most commonly used therapy by the NHS
- Economical
- Clear/measurable outcomes
- Appropriateness of CBT
- Appeals to those who find insight therapies too threatening.
- Teaches self help strategies
- Evaluation of effectiveness
- Barlow and Lehman (1996) found CBT to be the most effective for social phobia but behavioural therapy to be the most effective for specific phobias.
- Significant improvements in patients with spider phobia with just one session of CBT
- Comination with other therapies
- Burke et al. (1997) found that a cognitive rationale was no more effective in treating agoraphobia than graded exposure.
- Effect of the therapist
- Huppert et al (2001) found that more experienced therapists achieved better outcomes.
- Advantages
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