... from irrational beliefs. The therapy is specifically designed to treat depression, and is effective in this. In a less confrontational way than RET, it identifies depressed people's implicit and self-defeating assumptions. * Attributional therapy is derived from the revised theory of the learned helplessness and also treats depression. Attributional therapists try to break down the vicious circles that low self-esteem people experience. Changing attributions like this can lead to increased self-esteem, greater confidence and better performance. * Meichenbaum's stress inoculation therapy assumes that people sometimes find situations stressful because of their misperceptions about them. The therapy trains people to cope more effectively with potentially stressful situations through cognitive preparation, skill acquisition and rehearsal, and application and practice. * Cognitively based therapies are particularly helpful in treating panic disorder. They have also been shown to have a significant impact on many medical conditions and to reduce the psychological impact of unemployment. Their effectiveness with ...

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