Mission Statement NYI/CBT is dedicated to providing mental health professionals and students with excellent training in the most effective treatments available today for psychological and behavioral disorders, interpersonal difficulties, and substance abuse. We strive to impart to them a thorough knowledge of psychotherapy techniques and the social

and scientific psychological factors, which created them. We are specifically committed to training the mental health professional in the cognitive, behavioral, and related psychotherapies and we strive to offer the best consultation to agencies in the use of these therapies. We are devoted to the training of people entering one of New York State?s four new mental health professions. We intend to offer an excellent program to help them obtain a license. NYI/CBT has a policy of non-discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national or ethnic origin in admissions, use of facilities or exercise of student privileges, faculty, or administrative staff, and scholarship or loan programs.

History The New York Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies has a long past but a short history. Our founders have been active in developing and promoting cognitive, behavioral, and other research-supported short-term therapies for a many years, but the institute itself is new. It received its charter from the New York State Board of Regents in September 2002. The demand for practitioners skilled in the cognitive, behavioral, and other short-term therapies has been rising dramatically in the past few years. HMOs request that practitioners do such therapy. Mental health professionals seeking employment find that employers expect them to be skilled in these methods. Yet many practitioners have only a minimal knowledge of cognitive-behavioral and related treatment strategies. Dr. John Winston Bush and Dr. Howard Eisman founded NYI/CBT so that present and future practitioners could obtain the education needed to make them experts in such treatments. They were soon joined by Dr. Inna Pustilnik, Dr. Lisa Baron, and Dr. William Golden. NYI/CBT was chartered at about the same time as New York State established four new mental health professions. The directors of NYI/CBT have now expanded the Institute's mission to include training specifically designed to meet the needs of those seeking to enter the new professions. Most practitioners seeking to be licensed in one of these professions will need additional training to be license-eligible. NYI/CBT is committed to offering the required instruction.