ABSTRACT
Since its inception in the early 1970s, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) or cognitive behavior modification (CBM) has attempted to integrate the clinical concerns of psychodynamic and systems-oriented psychotherapists with the technology of behavior therapy. It has contributed to the current integrative efforts in the field of psychotherapy. In this chapter, I will briefly describe the origins of CBT and discuss some of the major tenets and theoretical constructs underlying CBT. A comprehensive empirical review of CBT is beyond the scope of this chapter, but a bibliography of such review articles is listed in the references. Finally, the potential integrative focus of CBT in the field of psychotherapy is highlighted.
