Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT): A psychological therapy approach initially developed to help those with emotional disorders like depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder or panic, CBT helps people to identify how their thoughts and actions are triggering or maintaining their emotional distress, and to learn strategies that restore their emotional balance. Since the 1990s CBT has also been shown to be effective in helping people who are coping with physical illnesses, by building their resilience, their coping skills or their strategies for dealing with the effects of their
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