How does the cognitive-behavioral approach work for behavioral addiction?

How does the cognitive-behavioral approach work for behavioral addiction?

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Oh, absolutely not, no, a cognitive therapist will bring to bare their tools, their expertises, but appropriately to the stage of change if they're remanded to because of legal complications to a rehab or something like that. We would start with, you know, just exploring is there a problem? Or do you see there being a problem? We wouldn't start, though by saying we gonna start changing your thoughts. We just gonna start with where you at or how you see the problem and as they emerge out of it or not emerge out of it, we'll adjust the innovations to fit their real motivation not the motivation of the person that put them in the treatment center.