Introduction In its simplest terms, cognitive behavioral therapy refers to a cathartic approach used by healers to come up with answers to the ever mind-triggering questions concerning non-adaptive behaviors, feelings as well as cognitions. To get such solutions, therapists employ much of methodical and goal-oriented measures. Based on the usage of the term, cognitive behavioral therapy refers to medical aids premeditated in accordance with cognitive and behavioral studies. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, in its original form stood out as a method of relapse prevention when administering treatment to problems associated with alcoholism but later extended to cocaine-addicted people. The schemes of cognitive-behavioral psychoanalysis rely on theoretical concerns that education procedures perform vital roles when it comes to the advancement of behavioral practices that are dysfunctional. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) proves effective to both group and individual settings. Commonly, the techniques employed remain structured for applications, which are self-helping in nature. Researchers arrived at the development of CBT through a merger of cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy. Marque, some researchers and clinicians concerned in the field of CBT tend to appear more inclined on either behavioral or cognitive therapy. The trends in health care are moving toward evidence-based treatments. Consequently, majority of varying CBT treatment programs have experienced radical scrutiny to unveil their effectiveness. In case of treatments demanding diagnosis that follows symptom-based approach, CBT has received incredible favor in comparison to some other treatment approaches, among them psychodynamic treatments. In case of certain treatments techniques driven direct, time-limited and brief of certain psychological disorders using CBT approaches, treatments remain manualized more often. Therapists, who do not embrace the CBT interventions in treating some disorders and as tools for intervention of aftermath problems of drugs abuse amongst the adolescents, argue that the existing data, which advocates for CBT, lack complete support to warrant the funding and the enormous attention it has received. They also argue that the CBT concerns do not go beyond to capture issues like unemployment reduction, rather they focuses just on psychotherapy. The notion that CBT stands out as more effective than other psychotherapy approaches has been heavily challenged over the years. For instance during psychotherapy conference held at University of East Anglia in 2008, Professor Elliot, Mick cooper and others claimed that people have the capacity to improve enormously after therapy; no matter which therapy was undertaken and that escalated spending by governments on CBT programs discouraged other therapeutic interventions: something that hurt the public at large. Among the many trials made, there s none applying both mental sop and blinding, that could figure out CBT as efficient for handling dementia praecox. In addition, it has been discovered also that only minimal ardently controlled CBT studies on depression actually prove to be effective and in case of the few found effective, the effectiveness was r