Category Archives: Sober Living

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Does CBT Work?

Compared to psychoanalysis its practice is much more empirical, experimental, and scientifically robust. Early behaviorist researchers including John Watson and Ivan Pavlov discovered the concept of classical conditioning and other ideas about how animals and humans learn. F. Skinner is famous for his discovery of operant conditioning – the idea cbt interventions for substance abuse […]

Teenage Peer Pressure For Teens

Adults are not exempt from facing societal expectations and peer judgment or influence. For example, you may carry the pressure of academic achievement into your career. Gender can affect how these pressures are internalized and expressed. For example, of the 29% of teens who responded they felt peer pressure to look “good,” girls were more […]