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The assumption of rational emotive behavior therapy has a different perspective from that of gestalt, psychoanalytic, and person centered therapy. This therapy deals with the client having to thinking, judging, deciding, analyzing, and doing. ... Cognitive-behavioral therapy combines the individual goals of cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy.
Pioneered by psychologists Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis in the 1960s, cognitive therapy assumes that a maladaptive behaviors and disturbed mood or emotions are the result of inappropriate or irrational thinking patterns, called automatic thoughts. ... Cognitive therapists attempt to make their patients aware of these distorted thinking patterns, or cognitive distortions, and change them (a process termed cognitive restructuring).
Behavioral therapy, or behavior modification, trains individuals to replace undesirable behaviors with healthier behavioral patterns. Unlike psycho dynamic therapies, it does not focus on uncovering or understanding the unconscious motivations that may be behind the maladaptive behavior(Ellis&Maclean1998).
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