Therapists use several techniques in the course of their behavioral therapy to help their patients and change their thoughts and behaviors. Some of these techniques include:
• The therapist normally asks the patient to defend their thoughts and beliefs. If the patient fails to produce the objective evidence, their faulty nature is exposed.
• The patient is sometimes asked by the therapist to imagine a difficult situation he has encountered in the past and then try to practice how to cope successfully with.
• In Guided discovery technique, a series of questions are being asked by the therapist from the patient. This is done to discover the cognitive distortions of the patient.
• The patient is being told to maintain a diary of the situations arise in his everyday life and the behavior to those situations that accompany him. The therapist then reviews the diary with the patient and discovers all the maladaptive thoughts so as to correct them
• In positive reinforcement technique, the behavior of patient is routinely motivated by positive things and reward system is set up for them
• Some distress strategies are also given to the patients. The main goal in these techniques is calm and peace. The more the brain is relaxed and quiet, the easier the information can get into it and be processed accordingly. The main focus of this technique is on healing, inner peace and healthiness.
Several studies indicate that Cognitive behavioral therapy reduces the rate of rehospitalization, can help anxiety patients in managing their worry, effective treatment of insomnia, depression and many other disorders.