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Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy for Depression

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Cognitive behavioural psychotherapy has been found in controlled studies to be an effective form of treatment for depression - in fact, it appears to be as effective as antidepressant medications. cognitive behavioural psychotherapy for depression focuses on the clinical observation that depressed mood often seems to result from or be maintained by negative patterns of thinking, beliefs about the self, relationship with others and the world and self defeating behaving patterns and reduced activity levels.