| Abstract
| - The recent cognitive revolution in psychology has meant that an individual's behaviour is now rarely viewed in simple behaviourist terms as solely a product of rewards and punishments, but is seen as influenced by the individual's own, often idiosyncratic, view of their situation. This new paradigm has enabled the development of highly structured and usually brief interventions in many areas of individual emotional problems. This paper describes Individual and Group Cognitive Therapy with depressed clients and cites two recent outcome studies. The contribution of Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to this area of emotional distress is noted with the caveat that its effectiveness has been more thoroughly studied in this area than in others.
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