Compare and contrast behavioral and cognitive therapy?

 

Behavioral therapy. 

Behavioral therapy focuses majorly on the manipulation of internal and external psychological environment to cause changes in behaviors. It is based on the idea that conditioning is the primary major cause of environment interaction behaviors. Behavioral therapy believes that behaviors that are observable are the only behaviors worthy considering in psychology.

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Behavioral therapy. 

Behavioral therapy focuses majorly on the manipulation of internal and external psychological environment to cause changes in behaviors. It is based on the idea that conditioning is the primary major cause of environment interaction behaviors. Behavioral therapy believes that behaviors that are observable are the only behaviors worthy considering in psychology. For the purposes of retraining people who suffer as a result of psychological disorder, the principle of conditioning is used in behavioral psychology. Behavioral therapy is enhanced through the following methods; response and exposure prevention, covert conditioning, flooding, operant conditioning among others (Kazantzis et al.,2010). 

Cognitive therapy. 

In the contrast, cognitive therapy focuses primary on thinking as the factor for change. Cognition in this type of therapy is the major cause of relevant behavior attribution. In other words, it is the study of functioning of human mind including reasoning, learning, decision making, language acquisition and conceptual development. The objective of cognitive therapy is acquisition, storing and acquisition of information. It primary emphasizes on conducting scientific research and laboratory experiments. Restructuring of cognitive behavior includes evaluation of people beliefs and thoughts, assessing people predictions and expectations and assessing contribution of people on causes events.