Cognitive behavior therapy.

Abstract

Many models or systems of psychotherapy take into account an individual's cognitions, including psychodynamic and interpersonal models. even those who seek primarily to modify behavior accept that cognitive symbolic processes are often necessary mediators of behavior (Mahoney & Kazdin, 1979). thus, although cognitions are now included in most therapeutic systems, the position accorded them varies substantially (perris, 1988a). in this chapter, we review the cognitive and cognitive behavioral models in which cognitions are a central focus for change, particularly as they are relevant for inpatient hospital programs (ihps), partial hospital programs (phps), and residential treatment centers (rtCs).Cognitive behavior psychotherapy is a comprehensive and empirically based therapy that is historically grounded in two different theoretical schools-the behavioral and the psychoanalytic. the inception of cogni tive psychotherapy as a separate school coincided with Beck and ellis