CS-U5D

CS-U5D Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Course Name & Code Instructor’s Name Date CS-U5D Even though there are many cases, I have chosen the case of a 15-year-old Puerto Rican female who was previously diagnosed with major depressive disorder (Jiménez Chafey et al., 2009). She was treated using a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) (APA.org, 2022). CBT is built on the idea that feelings, thoughts, and behavior have a link, and altering the maladaptive thinking patterns can help people to change their behaviors and emotions (Pomerantz, 2019). One of the primary assumptions of CBT is that thoughts can be restructured since it looks to identify and change distorted thinking patterns with new realistic and constructive thoughts that boost people's character. The other assumption is that cognition affects people's behavior and emotions, where it assumes that people's thoughts significantly impact how they feel and behave. One central concept in CBT is cognitive, where a person identifies negative thoughts, challenges them, and then replaces them with constructing th...