What are the goals and techniques of the cognitive therapies and of cognitive-behavioral therapy?

What are the goals and techniques of the cognitive therapies and of cognitive-behavioral therapy?

The cognitive therapies, such as Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy for depression, assume that our thinking influences our feelings, and that the therapist's role is to change clients' self-defeating thinking by training them to view themselves in more positive ways. Rational-emotive behavior therapy is a confrontational cognitive therapy that, actively challenges irrational beliefs. The widely researched and practiced cognitive-behavioral therapy combines cognitive therapy and behavior therapy by helping clients regularly act out their new ways of thinking and talking in their everyday life.