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List of cognitive–behavioral therapies

Cognitive behavioral therapy encompasses many therapeutical approaches, techniques and systems.Acceptance and commitment therapy was developed by Steven C. Hayes and others based in part on relational frame theory and has been called a "third wave" cognitive behavioral therapy. Anxiety management training was developed by Suinn and Richardson (1971) for helping clients control their anxiety by the use of relaxation and other skills. Aversion therapy, developed by Hans Eysenck Behavior therapy Behavioral activation is a behavioral approach to treating depression, developed by Neil Jacobson and others. Cognitive therapy was developed by Aaron Beck. Cognitive analytic therapy Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy Cognitive emotional behavioral therapy Cognitive processing therapy for Post traumatic stress disorder Compassion focused therapy Computerised cognitive behavioral therapy Contingency management Counterconditioning Decoupling Desensitization Dialectical behavior therapy Direct therapeutic exposure Exposure and response prevention Exposure therapy Functional analytic psychotherapy Habit Reversal Training Metacognitive therapy Metacognitive training Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy Multimodal therapy Problem-solving therapy Prolonged exposure therapy Rational emotive behavior therapy, formerly called rational therapy and rational emotive therapy, was founded by Albert Ellis. Reality therapy Relapse prevention Schema therapy Self-control therapy Self-instructional training was developed by Donald Meichenbaum, influenced by the developmental psychology of Alexander Luria and Lev Vygotsky, designed to treat the mediational deficiencies of impulsive children. Stress inoculation training Systematic desensitization is an anxiety reduction technique, developed by Joseph Wolpe. Systematic rational restructuring was an attempt by Marvin Goldfried to reanalyze systematic desensitization in terms of cognitive mediation and coping skills.

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Cognitive behavioral therapy encompasses many therapeutical approaches, techniques and systems.

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  1. Hayes, Steven C. (September 2004). "Acceptance and commitment therapy, relational frame theory, and the third wave of behavioral and cognitive therapies" (PDF). Behavior Therapy. 35 (4): 639–665. doi:10.1016/S0005-7894(04)80013-3.
  2. Flaxman, Paul Edward; Blackledge, John T.; Bond, Frank W. (2011). Acceptance and commitment therapy: distinctive features. The CBT distinctive features series. London; New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203834688. ISBN 9780415450652. OCLC 642511432.
  3. Ashworth, Fiona; Evans, Jonathan J.; McLeod, Hamish (2017). "Third wave cognitive and behavioural therapies: compassion focused therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and positive psychotherapy". In Wilson, Barbara A.; Winegardner, Jill; Heugten, Carolina Maria van; Ownsworth, Tamara (eds.). Neuropsychological rehabilitation: the international handbook. London; New York: Routledge. pp. 327–339. ISBN 9781138643093. OCLC 965154207.
  4. Prochaska, James O.; Norcross, John C. (2018). "Third-wave therapies". Systems of psychotherapy: a transtheoretical analysis (9th ed.). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 270–288. ISBN 9780190880415. OCLC 1015276003.
  5. Dobson, Keith S.; Dozois, David J. A. (2008). "Historical and Philosophical Bases of the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies". In Dobson, Keith S. (ed.). Handbook of cognitive-behavioral therapies (3rd ed.). New York: Guilford Press. pp. 3–39. ISBN 978-1-57230-601-1.
  6. Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy, Ellis, 1962