Is exposure therapy a subset of cognitive behavioral therapy?
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at
10:30 pm
I am doing a report and I need to know if I should put exposure therapy in a different category than CBT. Thanks in advance, and please don’t answer if you don’t know.
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Filed under: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
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I’d put exposure therapy squarely into the behavioral category rather than cog-beh.
If you’re talking purely exposure with response prevention (i.e., immersing your client in that which they fear and providing no escape), that’s definitely a behavioral intervention.
If you’re coupling it with cognitive techniques to reduce the anxiety, however, you can go ahead and categorize it as cog-beh.
Good luck with your decision,
~Dr. B.~