Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to help individuals focus on the role of thought and mental images that affect feelings and behavior, especially in clients diagnosed with anxiety and anxiety disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobia, depression, or posttraumatic stress disorder. CBT can be used in different settings, including individual, family, and group psychotherapy, to achieve different treatment goals. In all the settings, CBT helps teach clients to gradually comfort the things they fear to feel less afraid, become aware of their thinking in critical situations and work on ways of improving, and learn healthier ways of coping with stressful situations. This paper compares how the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy compares in groups, family, or individual settings and explains some challenges that Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNPs) encounter whenusing CBT in the family setting. Cognitive-behavioral therapy significantly emphasizes core beliefs and schema when dealing with families. The main aim of the approach is to assist family members in recognizing, accepting, and changing their thinking according to erroneous information and modifying their behavior and thinking to improve family relationships (Neufeld et al., 2020). When CBT is applied in family settings, the approach examines the interactional dynamics of the family members and how they relate to the dysfunction and functioning of the family as a unit. The application of CBT in family settings comes against the backdrop of systems and includes the premise that the family members simultaneously influence and are influenced by each other (Keles & Idsoe, 2018). Therefore, the relationships between behaviors and thoughts of each family member and how they affect each other become the therapy's major