Cognitive behavioral therapy combines many aspects of both cognitive therapy and behavior therapy. It teaches children to react differently to the situations and bodily sensations that trigger panic attacks and other anxiety symptoms, depression, or obsessive-compulsive. In addition, children also learn to understand how their thinking patterns contribute to their symptoms and how to change their thoughts so that symptoms are less likely to occur. This awareness of thinking patterns is combined with exposure and other behavioral techniques to help people confront their feared situations. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one form of evidence based treatments for child mental health disorders.
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