Communication is one of the major skills covered in cognitive behavioral therapy. Although therapy is often with an individual, relationship problems are a common focus of treatment. Helping someone ...

Substance use disorder is a complex health condition that involves brain chemistry, genetics, life experiences, and your environment. Severe substance use disorder, or addiction, is repeated drug use ...

Aversion therapy (AT) is a behavioral therapy that involves repeatedly pairing an undesirable behavior with an unpleasant experience with the goal of discouraging the undesirable behavior. Other names ...

Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, or CBT-I, is a short-term, highly structured form of therapy used to treat chronic insomnia. Like other forms of CBT, CBT-I targets a client’s maladaptive ...

Ryan C. Ungaro, MD, associate professor of medicine and director of clinical research in gastroenterology, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and Laurie Keefer, PhD, professor ...

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Criminal justice in the United States is in desperate need of reform. The nation has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Twenty percent of all of the world's prisoners are found in this ...

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for tinnitus may sound unusual, especially since CBT is a model of therapy often used to treat mental health disorders. But it can help improve your quality of life ...

During cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for alcohol use disorder (AUD), a person may discuss factors that contribute to their condition and learn alternative coping mechanisms. AUD is a form of ...

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I’ve had only one panic attack. It happened in the fall of 2008, during a period when my wife and I were graduate students in English. I was walking across a sunny quad, wearing an actual tweed jacket ...