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Introduction: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been demonstrated by numerous studies to be efficient for the management of a large variety of mental health conditions. Cognitive behavioral therapy is classically defined as a short-term, skills-focused management that aims at modifying the maladaptive emotional responses of the patient by altering the patient’s thoughts, and/ or behaviors. The origins of Cognitive behavioral therapy could be traced back partly to several theories hypothesized by early investigators including BF Skinner and Joseph Wolpe, who started the behavioral therapy movement during the 1950s. Behavioral therapy suggests that altering behaviors results in changes in the emotions and cognitions including appraisals.

Aim of Work: The purpose of this article is to give a thorough summary of two classifications of Cognitive behavioral therapy methods that allow for a wide range of anxiety disorder-specific managements and to give a review of the current empirical research that is associated with these techniques.

Methodology: We did a systematic search for recent advances in the protocols of Cognitive behavioral therapy using PubMed search engine and Google Scholar search engine.

Conclusion: Our review shows the benefits of using different cognitive behavioral therapy protocols to manage patients who suffer from anxiety conditions. Exposure protocols and cognitive protocols represent the most commonly used cognitive behavioral therapy techniques. The efficacy of exposure is still considered to be unchallenged for several anxiety conditions including specific phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorders. nevertheless, despite that previous research demonstrated the better outcomes following exposure techniques when compared to receiving no treatment, collective research has not always demonstrated that exposures provide significantly better outcomes when compared to cognitive therapies.

 Keywords: Anxiety Disorders; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Psychiatry

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