You will prepare and submit a term paper on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Treatment of Alcohol Addiction. Your paper should be a minimum of 2250 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Treatment of Alcohol Addiction. Your paper should be a minimum of 2250 words in length. When doing this they manage to change how they act and think. CBT appears to be more effective in treating alcohol abusers and those that are undergoing depression researchers from the Rand Corporation have noted that depressive symptoms are common in individuals who abuse alcohol or any other substance (Beck, 2009). There is a direct correlation between alcohol and depression. Fifty percent of alcoholics suffer from depression at one given point in time. Alcohol and depression haven been indicated by researchers that they do not mix well though. alcohol has been seen to be a depressant. Alcoholics use alcohol as a way of controlling their depression. When alcoholism and depression exists together they are called co-morbidity because they exist together. Alcohol and depression coexists together within an individual developing a complex situation that is very difficult to treat. Treatment cannot be done separate, and successful treatment must take into account the two diseases. This paper presents a literature review on the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for treatment of alcohol addiction patients. Alcoholism and depression are disorders that commonly co-occur within an individual.