A weakness of CBT?

-High likelihood of relapsing which is supported by reserach which presents high relapse rates. -Reltively few of the early studies into effectives of CBT looked at long-term effectivness, therefore Ali et al (2017) did a study which assessed depression in 439 clients every month for 12 months following a course of CBT -They found that 42% of clients relapsed into depression within six months of completing their CBT treatment whilst 53% relapsed within a year -This means that CBT might not be a long term solution but rather a solution that has to be done periodically to decrease the rates of relapse as well as maintain the new rational thinking strategies.