CBT - Use Your Brain For a Change
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Change your actions, and you will create new habits.
Change your thoughts, and you will change your actions.
Change your character, and you will change your destiny.
Change your habits, and you will change your character.
-- Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D.
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The objective of CBT is to identify individual negative thoughts, assumptions, beliefs, and behaviors that lead to dysfunctional, addictive, and self-destructive behaviors. The goal is to replace the negative perceptions with positive thoughts and feelings that will translate into the development of positive belief systems ultimately influencing positive behaviors.
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Educational and psychological work at Courage to Change Ranch not only creates change in itself, but also is essential to the physiological repair of compromised neurons.
"Cognitive Behavioral" techniques actually were developed in the field of education many years ago, and appropriated by the relatively new field of psychology. Over time this tried-and-true approach to "creating change" in behavior has undergone many refinements and elaborations, but its effectiveness in helping individuals cross the threshold to a new way of living is a constant.
C2C counselors use curricula based on CBT that has been specifically developed for the treatment of addictions. In groups such as "Thinking for a Change" and "Relapse Prevention," patients learn new ways of thinking.
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Educational and psychological work at Courage to Change Ranch not only creates change in itself, but also is essential to the physiological repair of compromised neurons.
"Cognitive Behavioral" techniques actually were developed in the field of education many years ago, and appropriated by the relatively new field of psychology. Over time this tried-and-true approach to "creating change" in behavior has undergone many refinements and elaborations, but its effectiveness in helping individuals cross the threshold to a new way of living is a constant.
C2C counselors use curricula based on CBT that has been specifically developed for the treatment of addictions. In groups such as "Thinking for a Change" and "Relapse Prevention," patients learn new ways of thinking.
In developing news ways of "learning" and "thinking", clients actually create new neural pathways in their brains.
Alcohol use is a complex behavior that emerges from the interplay of genes and environment in the context of development. -- NIAAA
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