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title: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
description: CBT treats anxiety, depression and more by changing thought and behaviour patterns. You will learn its model, core techniques, the evidence base, and self-directed workbooks and courses used alongside therapy.
category: health-medicine
subcategory: mental-health
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/cognitive-behavioral-therapy
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# Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT treats anxiety, depression and more by changing thought and behaviour patterns. You will learn its model, core techniques, the evidence base, and self-directed workbooks and courses used alongside therapy.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Websites • 1 Papers

## Papers

### 1. The Efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Review of Meta-analyses

**Author:** Stefan G. Hofmann, Anu Asnaani, Imke J. J. Vonk, Alice T. Sawyer, Angela Fang

An umbrella review of 269 meta-analyses mapping where CBT's evidence is strong, mixed or thin across anxiety, mood, psychotic, substance-use and somatic disorders. The reference point for judging any claim about what CBT actually treats.
Teaches a reader to distinguish well-supported CBT applications from marketed ones, which is the main defence against the slop that surrounds this subject.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3584580/

**Tags:** cbt-efficacy, meta-analysis, evidence-based-psychotherapy, anxiety-disorders, depression

## Books

### 1. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

**Author:** David D. Burns

The self-help classic that carried CBT to a general readership. Names the common cognitive distortions, shows how to dispute them in writing, and covers procrastination, approval-seeking and self-criticism. Studied in its own right as bibliotherapy for depression. The canonical popular entry point, and one of the few self-help books with trial evidence behind it.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0380810336?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** cognitive-distortions, depression, bibliotherapy, self-help-cbt

### 2. Mind Over Mood (2nd Edition)

**Author:** Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky

The workbook clinicians most often assign between sessions. Teaches thought records, evidence testing, core-belief work and behavioural activation through fillable worksheets, with reading paths tailored to depression, anxiety, anger, guilt and shame.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1462520421?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** thought-records, cbt-workbook, core-beliefs, behavioral-activation, anxiety

### 3. Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond (3rd Edition)

**Author:** Judith S. Beck

The standard training text for CBT practitioners, walking through case conceptualisation, session structure, the therapeutic relationship, thought records, behavioural experiments and relapse prevention using one continuous clinical example across the whole course of treatment.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1462544193?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** case-conceptualization, cbt-training, clinical-psychology, behavioral-experiments

## Websites

### 1. Centre for Clinical Interventions: Self-Help CBT Workbooks

The single best free CBT workbook set in existence: institutionally authored, protocol-faithful, and organised by presenting problem so a learner can follow one full course rather than collecting fragments.  Free structured CBT workbooks from a Western Australian public mental health service, covering depression, panic, social anxiety, worry, perfectionism and self-esteem. Each module teaches the cognitive model, then supplies worksheets and between-session exercises.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself

**Tags:** cbt-workbooks, self-help-cbt, anxiety, depression, panic-disorder

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