Strategies to Overcome Challenges in CBT. Health, Medicine, Nursing

Strategies to Overcome Challenges in CBT
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Strategies to Overcome Challenges in CBT
Although cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is highly recommended as a vital psychotherapeutic treatment, it faces some significant challenges some in the form of fractionalization and formation of subgroups, particularly in group therapy (Yalom & Leszcz, 2005). It is expected that such occurrences will happen as the group members will be keen to create a status hierarchy. Besides, people are social beings and thus, this is an element that the therapist should anticipate. Furthermore, people have varied personalities and thus, hostilities as well as instances of fury and anger will arise.
The therapist’s most ideal solution lies in ensuring that people get to speak of their indifferences in the open rather than describing them to suit their supporters. In this case, the goal is to have a consensus on the differences so that the prevailing animosity ceases to exist (American Grou...