CB Therapy
The benefit of psychotherapy for managing pain helps patients to identify negative thought patterns and replace them with positive ones. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is often used as a process of managing chronic pain. It is based on the principle that a person's beliefs about pain can influence adjustment to the pain experience. CBT addresses the behavioral, emotional, sensory-physiological, cognitive, and interpersonal aspects of pain issues.
Treatment planning is comprised of the evaluation of pain intensity, beliefs, and coping strategies. Therapeutic intervention to reduce the severity of pain would be the use of relaxation techniques such as breathing exercises and positive imagery. The patient will learn to verbalize a new and healthier attitude about pain, such as positive affirmations. Through psychotherapy, the patient will learn skills such as self-monitoring, cognitive restructuring and stress reduction training.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a psychotherapeutic approach that tries to solve problems concerning dysfunctional emotions and behaviors through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure.
There is empirical evidence that CBT isd effective for the treatment of a variety of problems including mood, anxiety, personality, eating disorders, substance abuse and psychotic disorders. CBT is used in individual therapy as well as group settings, and the techniques are often adapted for self-help applications.
The roots of CBT can be traced to the development of behavioral therapy in the early twentieth century, the development of cognitive therapy in the 1960s, and the subsequent merging of the two techniques.
