Mrthereverend

Cerebro?

I'm not OP but I am a psychologist and I want to give you an answer. CBT isn't really a lately thing, it's been around since the 1960s or 70s. There's a few reason's why it's so popular. CBT was developed to be a more "scientific" form of therapy, and as part of that there has been an ongoing effort to empirically demonstrate that the components of CBT actually do what they set out to do - which is generally to reduce symptoms of a given mental illness. There's a bit of a double edged sword to that. One the one hand - hey, this stuff works! On the other hand, there's less and less support, particularly from insurance companies, for other forms of therapy.

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For your other points - good CBT should "dive in". One of the main components is exploring an individual's "core beliefs", or their basic understanding of themselves, the world, other people, etc. Looking at where these beliefs come from, how they impact your life, how they have developed and changed over time, etc. Unfortunately, a lot of times insurance limits or certain practitioners might lead to a more surface level approach. As for when CBT will go away, arguably it's already going away. So-called "3rd wave" therapies (first being psychodynamic/psychoanalytic a la Freud, 2nd being CBT) have been around for a few decades now. Many of these - DBT and ACT in particular, or mindfulness based approaches in general - are becoming almost as popular as CBT, at least around where I practice.

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