Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Learning Principles
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Cognitive behavioral therapy is a type of therapy that focuses on the role of experience and attempts to reduce anxiety by simulated exposure to the inciting stimulus. Proponents of this treatment believe anxiety is a learned behavior. Why might this type of therapy be connected to learning principles?
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CBT is based on learning theory principles in that the emotions and reactions are learned, just as habits are, to deal with a given interaction or treatment instance that a person experiences.
As such, when CBT is applied to change the thoughts and behaviors of psychological problems, patients are encouraged to unlearn their faulty methods of reacting to ...
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