Communication is one of the major skills covered in cognitive behavioral therapy. Although therapy is often with an individual, relationship problems are a common focus of treatment. Helping someone ...

I’ve had only one panic attack. It happened in the fall of 2008, during a period when my wife and I were graduate students in English. I was walking across a sunny quad, wearing an actual tweed jacket ...

Like all variants of cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is a short-term, structured form of psychotherapy based on the idea that the way someone thinks ...

When it comes to psychotherapies, people seeking mental healthcare have no shortage of options to choose from. Talk therapy – also referred to as counseling – is the most popular and traditional ...

Sleep specialist S. Justin Thomas, Ph.D., has grown accustomed to people looking at him as though he is an eight-headed monster. That’s his way of referring to the reaction he gets from patients when ...

During cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for alcohol use disorder (AUD), a person may discuss factors that contribute to their condition and learn alternative coping mechanisms. AUD is a form of ...

Last summer, I began volunteering at a children’s therapy clinic in a nearby city. I didn’t know much about occupational or behavioral therapy, but I did know what it’s like to work with children ...

Contingency management (CM) is a behavioral therapy technique that encourages beneficial behaviors by giving rewards or positive reinforcement. CM incentivizes certain behaviors and discourages ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ChatGPT offered structure but felt robotic and lacked nuanced empathy. The human therapist was significantly ...

Perimenopause and menopause happen to all woman as they age—but many struggle to find effective treatments to manage symptoms. That may be changing. Mounting evidence suggests that one natural ...