As a result, cognitive behavioral therapies are believed to be developed to address specific content in mind, which means they are “disorder specific”.Therapeutic ApproachTo work effectively, the Cognitive behavioral therapies, as the term suggests, combine cognitive and behavioral strategies to help people with psychological distress. The cognitive part of the therapy helps the affected person to become aware of the distortions in their thoughts that cause psychological distress while the behavioral part helps the affected person to realize the patterns used to reinforce and treat them. The most significant insight of cognitive therapy as originally formulated by Dr. Beck more than three decades ago is that thoughts act as intermediaries between stimuli, such as external events and emotions. From the illustration in the figure below, it is the stimulus that elicits a thought, which could be an evaluative decision of some kind which in turn results in a