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cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) is based on a set of well-developed principles that are used to formulate treatment plans and guide the actions of the therapist. This opening chapter focuses on explaining these core concepts and illustrating how the basic cognitive-behavioral model has influenced the development of specific techniques. We begin with a brief overview of the historical background of CBT. The fundamental principles of CBT have been linked to ideas that were first described thousands of years ago (Beck et al. 1979; D. A. Clark et al. 1999).
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