Running Head: CRITICAL REVIEW OF LITERATURE                    1
CRITICAL REVIEW OF LITERATURE                             2
CRITICAL REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON THE TOPIC: PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPIES
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Research Context    3
Literature Review    4
Qualitative Study 1:    4
Qualitative Study 2:    6
Quantitative Study 1:    7
Quantitative Study 2:    8
Conclusion    9
References    11
Introduction
Human Psychology can be predicted and judged by several practices and researches. Psychology deals with the science of individual mind and behaviour, which thereby studies the conscious and unconscious phenomena of the individual. It highlights the human experiences from human brain and then to consciousness, personality, language to memory, reasoning and mental health.
Counselling helps a person both mentally and psychologically, through several purposeful conversation. Counselling is a process where two people meet each other in order to explore the problem and accordingly find out a solution. This paper will highlight both the Qualitative as well as Quantitative studies of the psychological analysis of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies, its aim, purpose, methodologies, findings, strength as well as limitations.
Research Context
Depression and anxiety are a major problem faced by several human being and has become the greatest challenge for our society. Therefore, in order to understand the depth of human emotion and problems, psychology here plays a vital role. Behavioural psychology always deals with certain behaviourism theories approached by several respected and popular psychologist according to whom behaviours are obtained through conditioning. The Cognitive Behavioural theories thereby include as mentioned by Wu et al. (2017), Pavlov’s classical conditioning where learning is done in unconscious human mind exposing certain stimulus.
On the other hand, the next theory as mentioned by Cherry (2019), the operant theory initiated by B.F Skinner who approached that learning is a procedure where judgment of behaviour should undergo through reward and punishment methods. Therefore, it highlights the behaviours and the consequences of human behaviours. Cognitive psychology focuses the human mental state. It describes the motivational fields, deals with the human emotions and sentiments, the language adopted, explaining the learning procedures, encourage the memory power, seeks the attention, decision making and problem-solving methods.
Counselling psychology deals with the mental treatment of human psychology to improve the interpersonal features throughout the life. It also helps to improve the emotional and social health of human being comprised of their family, work, marriage and many more. As stated by Levi, Bar‐Haim, Kreiss and Fruchter (2016), cognitive behavioural therapy is a kind of talk therapy or a Psychotherapy where through a structured procedure a mental health counsellor or therapists will attend several numbers of session with their clients.
It helps to get aware of the negative thinking and as a result, a person can get to see the challenging situation more clearly and vividly and accordingly respond to it. The main purpose of this therapy is to cure the individual with chronic disorder, depression, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue symptoms, suicidal behaviour and many more. The long- term therapies in cognitive behavioural approach for the chronically depressed patient undergo significant changes in these depressive symptoms three years after the start of the treatment. Certain structural as well as symptomatic changes are observed after the treatment.
Literature Review
Qualitative Study 1:
As per the study reviewed from the journal article by Holst et al. (2017), the main aim and objective of this article are to provide a computerised and internet based cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of the depressed people in primary care. The data of this qualitative study focused on the individual interviews as well as group discussion.
As stated earlier that depression and anxiety is the major problem faced by several individual and has now became a greatest challenge in worldwide society. The treatment option for various depression and anxiety-oriented diseases is either antidepressant medication or psychotherapy.
As mentioned by Hetrick et al. (2017), internet-based cognitive behavioural therapies can be applied for the young people with suicide related behaviours with full of hopelessness and anxiety. With the help of Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT), interventions are found to be effective for the treatment of the depressed community and secondary care. Qualitative methods were chosen in this regard in order to analyse the patient own sentiments and perspectives towards this Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Data collections were done under a semi- structure guide for individual interviews. Open-ended questions were also inviting the patients regarding their experiences about CBT. The questions go such as this “How does CBT helped you?”, “What is your experience after the end of the treatment?”, “How could you perceive internet as your treatment context?” The data...