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                   Using CBT effectively for treating 
                   depression and anxiety
                   Modify the elements of CBT 
                   to address specific anxiety 
                   disorders, patient factors
                          ewer than 20% of people seeking help for depression and 
                          anxiety disorders receive cognitive-behavioral therapy 
                  F(CBT), the most established evidence-based psychother-
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                   apeutic treatment.  Efforts are being made to increase access 
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                   to CBT,  but a substantial barrier remains: therapist training is 
                   a strong predictor of treatment outcome, and many therapists 
                   offering CBT services are not sufficiently trained to deliver 
                   multiple manual-based interventions with adequate fidelity 
                   to the model. Proposed solutions to this barrier include:
                       •		abbreviated	versions	of	CBT	training	for	practitioners	in	
                          primary care and community settings
                       •		culturally	adapted	CBT	training	for	community	health	
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                       •		Internet-based	 CBT	 and	 telemedicine	 (telephone	 and	
                                                      2                                                         Heather A. Flynn, PhD
                          video conferencing)
                       •		mobile	 phone	 applications	 that	 use	 text	 messaging,	                             Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research
                          social support, and physiological monitoring as adjuncts                              Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine 
                                                                                                                Florida State University College of Medicine
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                          to clinical practice or stand-alone interventions.                                    Tallahassee, Florida 
                       New models of CBT also are emerging, including transdi-                                  Ricks Warren, PhD, ABPP
                   agnostic CBT and metacognitive approaches (mindfulness-                                      Clinical Assistant Professor
                   based cognitive therapy and acceptance and commitment                                        University of Michigan Medical School
                   therapy), and several new foci for exposure therapy.                                         Department of Psychiatry
                                                                                                                Ann Arbor, Michigan
                       In	 light	 of	 these	 ongoing	 modulations,	 this	 article	 is	
                   intended to help clinicians make informed decisions about 
                   CBT when selecting treatment for patients with depressive 
                   and anxiety disorders (               5
                                                   Box,  page 46). We review the evidence 
                   of CBT’s efficacy for acute-phase treatment and relapse pre-
                   vention; explain the common elements considered essential to 
                   Disclosures
                   The authors report no financial relationships with any company whose products are                                                           Current Psychiatry
                   mentioned in this article or with manufacturers of competing products.                                                                             Vol. 13, No. 6    45
                                               Box                                                     Less well known may be that a success-
                                            How does CBT work, and                                  ful response to CBT in the acute phase may 
                                            for whom?                                               have a protective effect against depression 
                                                                                                    recurrences. A 2013 meta-analysis that 
                                                ven though cognitive-behavioral therapy             totaled 506 individuals with depressive 
                                            E(CBT) is supported by an impressive                    disorders found a trend toward signifi-
                                            evidence base and is recommended as                     cantly lower relapse rates when CBT was 
      Cognitive-behavioral                  first-line treatment for depression and anxiety         discontinued after acute therapy, com-
                therapy                     disorders, unaddressed clinical questions               pared with antidepr       essant therapy that 
                                            remain:
                                               • How does CBT work (mechanisms)?                                                              7
                                                                                                    continued beyond the acute phase.
                                               •  For whom does CBT work (particular 
                                                 patients with particular characteristics)?         Anxiety. Among psychotherapies, CBT’s 
                                               Because CBT encompasses diverse 
                                            approaches and techniques, little information           superior efficacy for anxiety disorders 
                                            exists about the “key ingredients” of CBT that          is well-established. CBT and its specific- 
                                            lead to improved clinical outcomes. Individual          disorder adaptations are considered first-
                                            factors that affect response to CBT have not 
                                            been well studied or elucidated. Depression             line treatment.8
        Clinical Point                      severity, for example, may be an important 
        For mild to moderate                moderator of depression treatment outcome; 
                                            behavioral activation has been found in recent          CBT’s essential elements
        depression, CBT                     studies to be particularly useful for more 
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                                            severely depressed outpatients.  Recent                 CBT focuses on distorted cognitions 
        is equivalent to                    CBT adaptations, including metacognitive                about the self, the world, and the future, 
        antidepressant                      approaches, have not been rigorously                    and on behaviors that lead to or maintain 
                                            compared with traditional CBT or to other 
        medication in terms                 psychotherapeutic approaches.                           symptoms. 
        of response and                        For any treatment, identifying patient 
                                            variables and characteristics that moderate             Cognitive interventions seek to identify 
        remission rates                     response is key to matching individuals                 thoughts and beliefs that trigger emotional 
                                            with effective therapies. Therefore, research 
                                            on CBT’s mechanisms and moderators is                   and behavioral reactions. A person with 
                                            essential for efficient targeting of treatment          social anxiety disorder, for example, might 
                                            options and to improve CBT’s efficacy overall.          believe that people will notice if he makes 
                                                                                                    even a minor social mistake and then reject 
                                                                                                    him, which will make him feel worthless. 
                                           CBT practice; describe CBT adaptations for               CBT can help him subject these beliefs to 
                                           specific anxiety disorders; and provide an               rational analysis and develop more adap-
                                           overview of recent advances in conceptual-               tive	beliefs,	such	as:	“It	is	not	certain	that	
                                           izing and adapting CBT.                                  I	will	behave	so	badly	that	people	would	
                                                                                                    notice, but if that happened, the likeli-
                                                                                                    hood of being outright rejected is probably 
                                           Efficacy for mood and anxiety                            low.	If—in	the	worst-case	scenario—I	was	
                                           disorders                                                rejected,	I	am	not	worthless;	I’m	just	a	fal-
                                           Depression. Dozens of randomized con-                    lible human being.”
                                           trolled trials (RCT) and other studies support 
                                           CBT’s efficacy in treating major depressive              CBT’s behavioral component can be con-
                                           disorder (MDD). For acute treatment:                     ceptualized as behavioral activation (BA), 
                                              •	CBT	 is	 more	 effective	 in	 producing	            a structured approach to help the patient:
                                           remission when compared with no treat-                      •		increase	behaviors	and	experiences	that	
        Discuss this article at            ment, treatment as usual, or nonspecific                       are rewarding
        www.facebook.com/                  psychotherapy.                                              •		overcome	barriers	to	engaging	in	these	
        CurrentPsychiatry                     •	For	 mild	 to	 moderate	 depression, 	                    new behaviors 
                                           CBT is equivalent to antidepressant medi-                   •		and	 decrease	 behaviors	that	maintain	
                                           cation in terms of response and remission                      symptoms. 
                                           rates.                                                      BA can be a useful intervention for indi-
                Current Psychiatry            •	Combining	 antidepressant	 therapy	                 viduals with depression characterized by 
                June 2014                                                                 6         lack of engagement or capacity for plea-
          46                               with CBT increases treatment adherence.  
                       Figure 1
                     Sample collaborative case conceptualization worksheet
                                    Events                                                                                Actions
                                Changing jobs                                                                 Spending more time alone
                               Financial stress                                                                      Exercising less
                                                                                                                      Missing work
                                                                                Mood
                                                                      Feeling stressed, sad, 
                                                                      down, or overwhelmed
                                   Thoughts                                                                         Communication  
                         Worrying more than usual                                                                      with others
                           Thinking that you are a                                                             Conflict with your partner
                         disappointment or failure                                                             Losing touch with friends
                                                                        Physical reactions                                                                  Clinical Point
                                                                   Feeling tense or exhausted
                                                                             Headaches                                                                      A mood activity log 
                                                                    Not getting enough sleep                                                                can illuminate links 
                     Using a graphical representation, such as this example, can be useful in developing an individual                                      between moods and 
                     case conceptualization collaboratively with the patient. The therapist and patient develop the content                                 activities and can be 
                     for each of the boxes together. This exercise serves as a way to collaboratively assess different 
                     influence on mood and to teach the patient about domains of influences on their mood and how                                           useful with targeting 
                     they might change these influences.                                                                                                    interventions
                   surable experiences. During pregnancy                               and treatment, such as automatic thoughts 
                   and the postpartum period, for example,                             or schemas. The case formulation leads to 
                   a woman undergoes physical, social, and                             a working hypothesis about the optimal 
                   environmental changes that might gradu-                             course and focus of CBT. 
                   ally deprive her of sources of pleasure                                 Collaborative empiricism is the way 
                   and other reinforcing activities. BA would                          in which the patient and therapist work 
                   focus on developing creative solutions to                           together to continually refine this work-
                   regain access to or create new opportuni-                           ing hypothesis. The pair works together to 
                   ties for rewarding experiences and to avoid                         investigate the hypotheses and all aspects 
                   behaviors (such as social withdrawal or                             of the therapeutic relationship. 
                   physical activity restriction) that perpetuate                          Although no specific technique defines 
                   depressed mood.                                                     CBT, a common practice is to educate a 
                                                                                       person about interrelationships between 
                   Common elements. Cognitive and behav-                               behaviors/activities, thoughts, and mood. 
                   ioral interventions focus on problem solv-                          A mood activity log (Figure 2, page 51) 
                   ing, individualized case conceptualization                          can illuminate links between moods and 
                   (                                                      9            activities and be useful with targeting 
                    Figure 1), and collaborative empiricism.  
                       Individualized	 case	 conceptualization	                        interventions. For a person with social  
                   lays the foundation for the course of CBT,                          anxiety, for example, a mood activity log 
                   and may be thought of as a map for therapy.                         could assist in developing a hierarchy of 
                   Case conceptualization brings in several                            feared social situations and avoidance 
                   domains of assessment including symp-                               intensity. Systematic exposure therapy 
                   toms and diagnosis, the patient’s strengths,                        would follow, beginning with the least 
                   formative experiences (including biopsy-                            frightening/intense situation, accompa-
                   chosocial aspects), contextual factors, and                         nied by teaching new coping skills (such as                             Current Psychiatry
                   cognitive factors that influence diagnosis                          relaxation strategies).                                                        Vol. 13, No. 6    47
                                                                                                                                 continued on page 50
                                        continued from page 47
                                        CBT adaptations for anxiety                            Motivational	 interviewing	 (MI)	 appears	
                                        disorders                                           to be a useful adjunct to precede traditional 
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                                        Elements of CBT have been adapted for a             CBT, particularly for severe worriers. 	 MI	
                                        variety of anxiety disorders, based on specific     attempts to help individuals with GAD rec-
                                        symptoms and features (                   10-15     ognize their ambivalence about giving up 
                                                                  Table, page 52).
                                                                                            worry. This technique acknowledges and 
                                        Panic disorder. Panic control treatment             validates	perceived	benefits	of	worry	(eg,	“It	
      Cognitive-behavioral              is considered the first-line intervention           helps	me	prepare	for	the	worst,	so	I	won’t	be	
              therapy                   for panic disorder’s defining features:             emotionally devastated if it happens”), but 
                                        spontaneous panic attacks, worry about              also explores how worry is destructive.
                                        future occurrence of attacks, and perceived 
                                        catastrophic consequences (such as heart 
                                        attack, fainting).10
                                                             This CBT adaptation            Emerging CBT models for anxiety 
                                        includes:                                           disorders
                                           •	patient	education	about	the	nature	of	         Metacognitive treatment. Evidence, such 
                                        panic                                               as presented by Dobson,18 suggests that 
        Clinical Point                     •	breathing	retraining	to	foster	exposure	       the field of CBT is shifting towards a meta-
        Motivational                    to feared bodily sensations and avoided             cognitive model of change and treatment. 
        interviewing                    activities and places                               A metacognitive approach goes beyond 
                                           •	cognitive	 restructuring	 of	 danger-          changing thinking and emphasizes thoughts 
        appears to be a                 related	 thoughts	 (such	 as	 “I’m	 going 	         about thoughts and experiences. Examples 
        useful adjunct to               to	 faint,”	 or	 “It	 would	 be	 catastrophic	if	   include mindfulness-based cognitive ther-
        precede traditional             I	did”).	                                           apy (MBCT) and acceptance and commit-
        CBT, particularly for                                                               ment therapy (ACT). 
        severe worriers                 Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Exposure                MBCT typically consists of an 8-week 
                                        and response prevention (ERP) is the first-         program of 2-hour sessions each week and 
                                        line treatment for obsessive-compulsive             1 full-day retreat. MBCT is modeled after 
                                        disorder (OCD).11	 In	 traditional	 therapist-      Kabat-Zinn’s widely disseminated and 
                                        guided ERP, patients expose themselves to           empirically supported mindfulness based 
                                        perceived contaminants while refraining             stress reduction course.19
                                                                                                                        MBCT was devel-
                                        from inappropriate compulsive behaviors             oped as a relapse prevention program for 
                                        (such as hand washing).                             patients who had recovered from depres-
                                           Cognitive interventions also can be an           sion. Unlike traditional cognitive therapy for 
                                        effective treatment of obsessions, with-            depression that targets changing the content 
                                        out patients having to engage in exposure           of automatic thoughts and core beliefs, in 
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                                        to their horrific thoughts and images.              MBCT patients are aware of negative auto-
                                        Consider, for example, a new mother who             matic thoughts and find ways to change 
                                        upon seeing the kitchen knife has the               their relationship with these thoughts, learn-
                                        intrusive	thought,	“What	if	I	stabbed	my	           ing that thoughts are not facts. This process 
                                        baby?”	Instead	of	the	traditional	exposure	         mainly is carried out by practicing mind-
                                        approach for OCD (ie, having her vividly            fulness	 meditation	 exercises.	 Importantly,	
                                        imagine stabbing her baby until her anxiety         MBCT goes beyond mindful acceptance of 
                                        level subsided), the cognitive intervention         negative thoughts and teaches patients mind-
                                        would be to educate her about the nor-              ful acceptance of all internal experiences.  
                                        malcy of intrusive thoughts, particularly in           A fundamental difference between 
                                        the postpartum period.                              ACT and traditional CBT is the approach 
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                                                                                            to cognitions.  Although CBT focuses 
                                        Generalized anxiety disorder. CBT for               on changing the content of maladaptive 
                                        generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) targets          thoughts,	 such	 as	 “I	 am	 a	 worthless	 per-
                                        patients’ overestimation of the likelihood          son,” ACT focuses on changing the function 
                                        of negative events and the belief that these        of thoughts. ACT strives to help patients to 
               Current Psychiatry       events, should they occur, would be cata-           accept	their	internal	experiences—whether	
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         50 June 2014                   strophic and render them unable to cope.            unwanted thoughts, feelings, bodily sen-
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