Clinicians treating clients with BDD from a __________ perspective focus on helping them to understand that appearance is only o
ne aspect of their total identity, while at the same time challenging them to question their assumptions that their appearance is, in fact, defective."
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) <em>is a type of psychotherapy that solves issues and enhances satisfaction by altering negative feelings, attitudes and thoughts.</em>
In contradistinction to traditional Freudian psychoanalysis, that samples childhood wounds to get to the underlying causes of conflict.
This therapy focuses on approaches that enable clinicians to question distorted cognition's and alter negative behavior patterns.