Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is a form of psychiatric treatment procedure that is used in making patients understand the thoughts and feelings that influence behaviors. This psychotherapeutic procedure relies on the fact that thoughts and feelings are among the primary influences on how we behave. It is used to treat mostly, people with phobias, anxiety, depression, anxiety and addiction. By changing how these people interpret their thoughts and feelings, one can also change how the react to their environment.

Cognitive behaviour therapy is divided into three types of treatment methods and either one of them can be used for successful treatment of a patient. However, In some cases, the need to incorporate the three methods may arise. They include: rational emotive therapy, cognitive therapy and multimodal therapy.

The University of Toronto, CBT Toronto, offers a certificate course in the study of cognitive therapy. Covered in the course is the understanding of the current research endeavors on CBT and CBT interventions that have been proven effective, acquisition of skills for the treatment of behavioral disorders, effective use of interventions identification of the cognitive disorders encountered everyday and other studies.

The components of CBT differ with the condition being addressed. CBT has become really necessary with the increasing cases of behavioral disorders therefore much research is being put into discovery of new interventional methods