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What therapy is best for phobias?
39 lists some of the best evidence basedtreatments for phobiasincludingcognitive behavioural therapy(CBT) and psychodynamic therapy.
Transcript
Some of the evidence based treatment for phobias is cognitive behavioural therapy and in some cases also psychodynamic therapy if the phobias are rooted in our childhood experiences. Again, cognitive behavioural therapy is a form of evidence based therapy that uses the way we think about the world and the way we feel about the world and the way we behave with the world. And it's changing those maladaptive thoughts and those maladaptive behaviours into more positive ones. And the process is called cognitive restructuring and behaviour modification. So cognitive restructuring and behaviour modification which basically simply means, identify the negative thoughts, identify the negative behaviours, and change those into a more positive, long lasting effect.
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