International Conference on Positive Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy June 13-14, 2016 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Cognitive Therapy (CT), is a form of psychotherapy in which the therapist and the client work together as a team to identify and solve problems. It is a relatively short-term, focused psychotherapy for a wide range of psychological problems including depression, anxiety, anger, marital conflict, loneliness, panic, fears, eating disorders, substance abuse, alcohol abuse and dependence and personality problems. Cognitive therapy helps the patient learn effective self-help skills that are used in homework assignments that help you change the way you think, feel and behave now. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is action-oriented, practical, rational, and helps the patient gain independence and effectiveness in dealing with real-life issues.

Focused therapy is goal oriented, targeting the desired outcome of therapy as a solution rather than focusing on the symptoms or issues that brought someone to therapy. This technique emphasizes present and future circumstances and desires over past experiences. The therapist encourages the client to imagine the future that he or she wants and then the therapist and client collaborate on a series of steps to achieve that goal. This form of therapy involves developing a vision of one’s future, and then determining what skills, resources, and abilities a person already possesses that can be enhanced in order to attain the desired outcome. It is also known as Brief Solution Focused Therapy or Solution Focused Brief Therapy.

It focus on childhood anxiety and depression provide an overview of the effectiveness of treatment and prevention programmes. Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies for children and adolescents usually are short-term treatments (i.e., often between 6-20 sessions) that focus on teaching young people and their parents specific skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is different from many other therapy approaches by focusing on the ways that a person's cognitions (i.e., thoughts), emotions, and behaviors are connected and how they affect one another. With children adolescents cognitive therapy is focused on breaking the circle at the thought phase. Having the child focus on the thought and bringing that step in the cycle come more under his or her control can help him or her to see the fallacies in the thoughts and thus repair his or her behavior to the virtual reality of the situation rather than continue in the avoidance behaviors that are inappropriate.

It is a type of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy that emphasizes the psychosocial aspects of treatment and was developed to treat borderline personality disorder. DBT is aimed to treat some people who are prone to react more intense and out of the ordinary manner toward certain situations. People with borderline personality disorder experience extreme swings in their emotions and don’t have any methods of coping with these sudden, intense surges of emotion. DBT is a way of teaching skills to get a grip of their emotions and having a chance at enhanced health.

Counseling Psychology is a specialty within professional psychology that maintains a focus on facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the life span. The specialty pays particular attention to emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental, and organizational concerns. The practice of Psychology help people to improve their well-being, alleviate distress and maladjustment, resolve crises, and increase their ability to function better in their lives. With its  attention to both to normal developmental issues and problems associated with physical, emotional, and mental health, the specialization holds a unique perspective in the broader practice-based areas of psychology. Counseling psychology focuses on providing therapeutic treatments to clients who experience a wide variety of symptoms. It is also one of the largest specialty areas within psychology.

Behaviorism (or behaviorism) is an approach to psychology that focuses on an individual's behavior. It combines elements of philosophy, methodology, and theory. Behaviorism is primarily concerned with observable behavior, as opposed to internal events like thinking and emotion. Observable (i.e. external) behavior can be objectively and scientifically measured. Internal events, such as thinking should be explained through behavioral terms. Behavior is the result of stimulus response (i.e. all behavior, no matter how complex, can be reduced to a simple stimulus – response association). Watson described the purpose of psychology as: “To predict, given the stimulus, what reaction will take place; or, given the reaction, state what the situation or stimulus is that has caused the reaction”.

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A sudden overwhelming feeling of acute and disabling anxiety. It is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by sudden attacks of fear and panic. Panic attacks may occur without a known reason, but more frequently they are triggered by fear-producing events or thoughts, such as taking an elevator or driving. Symptoms of panic attacks include rapid heartbeat, strange chest sensations, shortness of breath, dizziness, tingling, and anxiousness. Hyperventilation, agitation, and withdrawal are common results. Panic disorder is believed to be due to an abnormal activation of the body's hormonal system, causing a sudden 'fight or flight' response. Treatment involves cognitive behavioral therapy, using exposure to effect symptom reduction, and use of medication.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave. It is most commonly used to treat anxiety and depression, but can be useful for other mental and physical health problems. Cognitive behavioral therapy cannot remove your problems, but it can help you deal with them in a more positive way. It is based on the concept that your suicidal thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and actions are interconnected, and that negative thoughts and feelings can trap you in a vicious cycle. Cognitive behavioral therapy aims to help you crack this cycle by breaking down overwhelming problems into smaller parts and showing you how to change these negative patterns to improve the way you feel.

Couple therapy helps to restore better level of functioning in couples who experience relationship distress. Cognitive therapy educates and increases awareness between the couple. Emotional distress in couple is due to inappropriate information processing (possibly "jumping to conclusions," for example) and negative cognitive appraisals. Couple therapy  attempts to discover the negative types of thinking that drive negative behaviors and tries to impact these negative thoughts. Couple therapy is a type of psychotherapy to develop harmony among couple.

Treatment-resistant depression poses a significant challenge for psychiatrists. According to an interactive session presented at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting cognitive behavioral therapy may be an effective method for cutting through barriers to care in those hard-to-treat cases. CBT has shown to reduce the suicidal behavior compared with standard treatment. CBT affects despair and hopelessness and gives a sense of hope to go on. Goal setting is an important aspect of CBT therapy for treatment-resistant depression. Knowing  patients view on  how they would like to see their life change as a result of treatment, or what they'd do differently if they weren't depressed, introduces patients to new, more positive perspectives.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy combines cognitive and behavioral therapies and has strong empirical support for treating mood and anxiety disorders. The basic premise of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is that emotions are difficult to change directly, so Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets emotions by changing thoughts and behaviors that are contributing to the distressing emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy builds a set of skills that enables an individual to beaware of thoughts and emotions; identify how situations, suicidal thoughts, and behaviors influence emotions; and improve feelings by changing dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors. The process of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy skill acquisition is collaborative. Skill acquisition and homework assignments are what set Cognitive Behavioral Therapy apart from “talk therapies”.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is based on the fact that negative cognitions have their roots in past experiences. Schema-Focused Cognitive Therapy proposes an integrative systematic model of treatment for a wide spectrum of chronic pain, difficult and characterological problems. This approach was developed to address lifelong, self-defeating patterns called early maladaptive schemas.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a structured form of talking therapy. It has shown to be effective for a wide range of problems, particularly helping people who suffer from mild to moderate depression and anxiety based disorders and is recommended by the Department of Health and the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a form of therapy that aims to address how your problems are affecting you in the here-and-now. It involves developing an understanding as to how our suicidal thoughts, feelings and motro control and behaviors interact with each other in the development and maintenance of our problems. So for example, when people are depressed they are more likely to view aspects of their life in a negative way.

The recent recognition of the global importance of mental disorders has put psychiatry firmly on the international health agenda. The World Health Organization has estimated that neuropsychiatric disorders and suicide account for 12.7% of the global burden of disease.1 Major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, alcohol misuse, and obsessive compulsive disorder account for five of the 10 leading causes of disability in low and middle income countries. In high income countries, dementia is the third most common neuropsychiatric disorder. Most treatment methods for mental health disorders can be categorized as either somatic or psychotherapeutic. Somatic treatments include drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, and other therapies that stimulate the brain transcranial. Psychotherapeutic treatments include psychotherapy, behavior therapy techniques and hypnotherapy.

Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is the specialty of nursing that cares for people of all ages with mental illness or mental distress, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis, depression or dementia. Psychiatric mental health registered nurses work with individuals, families, groups, and communities, assessing their mental health needs. The PMHN develops a nursing diagnosis and plan of care, implements the nursing process, and evaluates it for effectiveness.