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This 4 page paper considers the benefits and problems with the use of CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and a comparison with Solutions-Based Therapy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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have integrated elements of both of these therapies as a means of seeking resolution to problems like alcoholism, family violence, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There are distinct benefits
and disadvantages of these therapeutic approaches when applied to different therapeutic goals. As a result, clinical social workers seeking to integrate either of these approaches should understand their benefits
and limitations. Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a clinical therapeutic model created to determine substantive change for individuals suffering from conditions that include depression, anxiety, social disorders, phobias,
obsessive/compulsive disorder (OCD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Bush, 2001). In addressing these conditions, CBT combines two long-standing and effective therapeutic perspectives: cognitive therapy and behavior therapy, both
of which have support in decades of psychological and social services research (Bush, 2001). Solutions-Based Therapy, sometimes described as Solutions-Focused therapy, is often a brief therapeutic approach for addressing immediate
problems, including issues like interpersonal violence or the need for anger management systems. Solutions-Based therapy relates to the view of patterns of behavior that maintain the problem and relates
to what individuals can do to implement change. Miller, Hubble and Duncan (1996) viewed "problem-maintaining patterns as consisting of a clients definition of the problem as well as his
or her attempted solution" (10). The approach to addressing the problem related to setting short term goals and defining ways of meeting these goals within the context of individual
perspectives. CBT is based on the integration of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy. Behavioral therapy is based on the belief that troublesome situations and behaviors become habitual
and that interventions and the therapeutic environment must stop the pattern of habitual reaction (Bush, 2001). For example, reactions such as paranoia and subsequent avoidant behaviors are often linked
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