The practice of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) consists of a course of interventions that focus on stimulating behavior by identifying and altering specific negative patterns of thinking (Stuart & Jones, 1999). When used to treat depression, CBT assumes that depressed individuals are likely to develop a pattern of thinking that results from previous negative experience, which produces negative and frequently illogical thoughts, resulting in a negative self-image (Stuart & Jones, 1999). In practice, CBT helps to alter an individual’s illogical or distorted cognitive patterns by asking the depressed individual to examine the reality of his/her beliefs that presumably fuel his/her disordered mood (Stuart & Jones, 1999). Once the individual recognizes that some of his/her beliefs are illogical or distorted, and are frequently based on his/her past, rather than the present, the beliefs are altered and replaced with more positive realistic beliefs, thereby influencing the individual’s mood and behavior (Stuart & Jones, 1999).