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GCSE Psychology · key term
Cognitive behavioural therapy: a psychotherapy that helps people identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts and change unhelpful behaviour.
Used by OCR
Paper 1
Revise: Drug Treatments and PsychotherapyCBT focuses mainly on current difficulties. Therapist and client work collaboratively, examining thoughts rather than simply telling the client to ‘think positively’. The aim is to develop realistic, balanced interpretations and useful ways of responding.
For CBT, explain both changing thoughts and changing behaviour, and apply these to the named disorder.
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