Cognitive Behaviourial Therapy Cognitive behaviourial therapy is used to treat and prevent depressive disorders. The title of this article is basically self explanatory, Cognitive Therapy with an Adolescent to Prevent Relapse of Psychotic Disorder. Writers Dr. Sally Beeken and Dr. Kedar Dwivedi used cognitive therapy techniques over a six month period in order to prevent relapses of psychosis for a 14 year old girl. The 14 year old girl seemed to be a stable child. She had …showed first 75 words of 581 total…

…showed last 75 words of 581 total…doctors can hope that she will rationalize the situation and control it. This method looks to follow a positive and helpful method for the teen. I believe that this article would have been more interesting if the authors provided the reader with more information. It gives a good analysis of cognitive therapy but I believe it could have been explained better. The article was interesting but at the same time seemed to need more information.