What is the cognitive-behavioral perspective of behavioral addiction?

What is the cognitive-behavioral perspective of behavioral addiction?

Marc Kern (Addiction Expert, Director of Addiction Alternatives) gives expert video advice on: What is the "disease model" approach to behavioral addiction?; What is the cognitive-behavioral approach to behavioral addiction?; What is the "psychodynamic perspective" of behavioral addiction? and more...

The cognitive behavioral approach to addiction really is a broad range of tools, psychological tools, that have research behind them, that have been studied and repeated over and over again. They all seem to involve an emphasis on focusing on the thinking as it leads to behavior or the thinking as it leads to feelings. And, the techniques may be quite broad and quite different, but as long as their focus is on the space between the two ears, that's the place where professionals intervene. It's basically about talking, it's about reorganizing the beliefs, again, that lead to certain other beliefs or certain other feelings or certain behaviors and the thrust of most of the interventions is thought, language and correction of irrational, destructive thoughts and beliefs.