InstructionDiscussion question: Which evidence-based counseling theory best supports the client coping with trauma and other mental health issues? Justify your answer. Student response: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has always been intriguing to me. This theory has shown time after time, how it positively impacts plenty of anxiety, substance use, depression, personality, and trauma disorders. A client coping with trauma and other mental health issues can benefit from cognitive therapy. According to Kar (2011), “CBT has been culturally validated, and has been used successfully by community therapists following brief training, in individual and group settings” (p, 181). This type of evidence-based counseling theory examines the clients feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. When examining these aspects of an individual, being aware of the trauma or crisis that happened and their symptoms, can allow for a change of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors afterwards. Applying CBT to therapy of clients coping with trauma, can help distinguish the unhealthy thoughts and behaviors a client is indulging in. It can also help determine what traumatic triggers the client may have and how to manage those. CBT can help a client become more aware of what they deserve for themselves and their mental state even after experiencing their trauma. It’s common for client’s who experienced trauma to become more realistic and adapt more to the trauma they endured and the psychological struggles they are facing when being treated with cognitive behavioral therapy (Kar, 2011).