Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): A Case Study

I. Introduction
Substance-related disorders have demonstrated negative impacts on the personal general health. They result in personal, familial and occupational impairment mediated through their direct effects and subsequent consequences (Range & Marlatt, 2008).
Several psychological approaches were adopted to enhance recovery and maintain abstinence. Cognitive behavioral therapy (referred later as CBT) was one of the most applied approaches in this field. CBT was originally designed to treat depression to help solving current problems by challenging maladaptive thoughts and behaviors. Now, CBT use was widened to involve substance-related disorders as well as other psychiatric disorders (Lee, 2013). CBT integrated both the cognitive and behavioral models and applied them to deal with substance related problems (Range & Marlatt, 2008) .
II. Empirical support of CBT added benefits in treatment of Addiction
Several studies had demonstrated the effectiveness of CBT for most of substance use disorders, including alcohol dependence (Miller & Wilbourne, 2002), cocaine dependence (Carroll, Nich, Ball, McCance, & Rounsavile, 1998), and nicotine dependence (Patten, Martin, Myers, Calfas, & Williams, 1998). Moreover, CBT was
Carroll et al. (1994) used a CBT-dependent protocol to treat cocaine dependents with promising results. In their study, Rawson et al. (2002) compared two groups of cocaine dependents; one of them received CBT sessions and the other group received contingency management (voucher incentives), they found that both groups demonstrated improvement, with better outcome for the contingency management group during the study, however CBT group did better near the end of the study and during the after-study follow up. Another study comparing CBT versus interpersonal therapy and/or disulfiram administration found CBT was to be as effective as other approaches (Carroll et al.,