For the fear that they demonstrate cognitive-behavioral approaches, such as therapy, are the recommended treatment.
The AniCare program uses a cognitive-behavioral approach with direct interventions emphasizing the client's need to acknowledge accountability for his or her behavior (much like the approach used with spouse batterers).
An influential cognitive-behavioral approach to addiction recovery and therapy has been Alan Marlatt's (1985) Relapse Prevention approach.
The psychophysiological approach focuses on the processes of the brain and their influence on physical activity, and the cognitive-behavioral approach analyzes the ways in which individual thoughts determine behavior.
As such, EMDR is only recommended in cases where cognitive-behavioral approaches have proven ineffective or in cases where agoraphobia has developed following trauma.
Relapse prevention is a cognitive-behavioral approach with the goal of identifying and preventing high-risk situations such as substance abuse, obsessive-compulsive behavior, sexual offending, obesity, and depression.
A cognitive-behavioral approach is based on the idea that mental, emotional, and even physical symptoms partly stem from one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, resulting in poor adaptation.
The cognitive-behavioral approach, while highly effective in stopping binge eating, is less effective in achieving weight loss, she said.
The counseling takes what is known as a cognitive-behavioral approach.
Best suited for the cognitive-behavioral approach, experts thought, would be those most heavily dependent on alcohol in their lives; those with severe psychiatric, cognitive or social adjustment problems and women.
