Behavioral Therapy Versus Cognitive Therapy

The difference between Cognitive therapy is that cognitive therapy considers thinking as the influence for change, and behavior therapy focuses on manipulation of the social environment, and the functional core environment cause behavior change. Therefore, the techniques or practice has to be different based on the concept of change since it covers a broad range of disorders.
Cognitive therapy helps the client to understand or make awareness of their own negative self-image, and how their thoughts control their feeling or emotions, which leads their feelings to influence their actions and/or behaviors. In addition, Cognitive therapy base cognition on mental health. The approaches, practice, disorders, behaviorist, and treatments differ from
Behavior Therapy. Since, the therapy helps rationalize the client and assist with relearning how to abstain from negative thinking. In order for their thoughts to not affect their emotion which causes unwanted behaviors and/or action. Meanwhile, cognitive therapy focuses on the here and now events which interferes with a person current free will to make better life choices.
Behavior therapy focus on manipulation of social environments which impacts the organism and determines the effect of certain individual’s behaviors from a social aspect. While Behavior Therapy aims borderline personality disorders by eradicates irrational reinforced unwanted, desirable behaviors, and hidden core beliefs. Therefore, it helps by redirecting past behaviors from limiting an individual free will and choices based on their current negative thoughts, and behaviors. To have a more positive insight about the way the client learned the negative behaviors is the same way they may relearn positive behavior as a choice to live a healthier mental state and practice better functional behaviors for a happier life.