MYTH 8
Whatever your problem, CBT is the answer
If you are reading this, you will almost certainly have heard of it. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is all the rage these days. As a cost-effective, evidence-based treatment for an ever-expanding wide range of conditions it has quite understandably won favour with health-care providers and been widely publicised as a ‘magic bullet’ for all manner of problems. Fresh with its gleaming seal of approval from the National Institute of Clinical Excellence, CBT is widely perceived as the modern, efficient and scientific cure. CBT is ‘therapy à la mode’ and its practical, skills-based approach to managing your own mental health sits very comfortably within the expectations, desires and ethos of ...
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