Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive behavioral therapy encompasses many therapeutical approaches, techniques and systems.

• Acceptance and commitment therapy was developed by Steven C. Hayes and others based in part on relational frame theory and has been called a "third wave" cognitive behavioral therapy.[1][2][3][4]

• Anxiety management training was developed by Suinn and Richardson (1971) for helping clients control their anxiety by the use of relaxation and other skills.[5]

• Aversion therapy, developed by Hans Eysenck

• Behavior therapy

• Behavioral activation is a behavioral approach to treating depression, developed by Neil Jacobson and others.

• Cognitive therapy was developed by Aaron Beck.

• Cognitive analytic therapy

• Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy

• Cognitive emotional behavioral therapy

• Cognitive processing therapy for Post traumatic stress disorder

• Compassion focused therapy

• Computerised cognitive behavioral therapy

• Contingency management

• Counterconditioning

• Decoupling

• Desensitization

• Dialectical behavior therapy

• Direct therapeutic exposure

• Exposure and response prevention

• Exposure therapy

• Functional analytic psychotherapy

• Habit Reversal Training

• Metacognitive therapy

• Metacognitive training

• Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

• Multimodal therapy

• Problem-solving therapy[5]

• Prolonged exposure therapy

• Rational emotive behavior therapy, formerly called rational therapy and rational emotive therapy,[6] was founded by Albert Ellis.[5]

• Reality therapy

• Relapse prevention

• Schema therapy

• Self-control therapy

• Self-instructional training was developed by Donald Meichenbaum, influenced by the developmental psychology of Alexander Luria and Lev Vygotsky, designed to treat the mediational deficiencies of impulsive children.[5]

• Stress inoculation training[5]

• Systematic desensitization is an anxiety reduction technique, developed by Joseph Wolpe.

• Systematic rational restructuring was an attempt by Marvin Goldfried to reanalyze systematic desensitization in terms of cognitive mediation and coping skills.[5]