List of cognitive–behavioral therapies

Cognitive behavioral therapy is an umbrella term that encompasses many therapeutical approaches, techniques and systems.


 * Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a "third wave" behavior therapy, developed by Stephen Hayes based on relational frame theory.
 * Anxiety Management Training was developed by Suinn and Richardson (1971) for helping clients control their anxiety by the use of relaxation and other skills.
 * Applied Behavioral Analysis, described by Baer, Wolf and Risley in 1968, is the science of applying experimentally derived principles of behavior to improve socially significant behavior.
 * Behavioral activation is a behavioral approach to treating depression, developed by Neil Jacobson and others.
 * Behavior modification is a term originally used by Edward Thorndike in 1911.
 * Behavior therapy
 * Cognitive therapy was developed by Aaron Beck and has become of the most studied psychosocial treatments.
 * Cognitive analytic therapy
 * Cognitive behavior modification
 * Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy
 * Cognitive processing therapy for Post traumatic stress disorder
 * Computerised Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
 * Contingency Management
 * Dialectical Behavior Therapy
 * Demartini Method
 * Direct therapeutic exposure
 * Exposure and response prevention
 * Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
 * Interactive Cognitive Subsystems
 * Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
 * Multimodal Therapy
 * Problem-Solving Therapy
 * Prolonged Exposure Therapy
 * Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, formerly called Rational Therapy and Rational Emotive Therapy, was founded by Albert Ellis and is "regarded by many as one of the premiere examples of the cognitive-behavioral approach"
 * Reality Therapy
 * Relapse Prevention
 * Self Control Training.
 * Self Instructional Training was developed by Donald Meichenbaum, influenced by the developmental psychology of Alexander Luria and Lev Vygotsky, designed to treat the mediational deficiencies of impulsive children
 * Self-talk Identification, Questioning & Revision (SIQR)
 * Stress Inoculation Training
 * Systematic desensitization is an anxiety reduction technique, developed by Joseph Wolpe.
 * Systematic Rational Restructuring was an attempt by Marvin Goldfried to reanalyze systematic desensitization in terms of cognitive mediation and coping skills.