What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) explores relationships among a person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. As it related to Mothers and Babies, a CBT approach emphasizes three key components in the curriculum: focusing on the types of mental behavior one engages in (thoughts), increasing pleasant activities that one can do (by oneself, with baby or others) and focusing on the type and frequency of personal contacts. These three elements can be in the form of things one experiences in one’s mind, things one does, or experiences one shares with others.

Association for Behavioral Cognitive Therapies
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)