the treatment of emotional and behavioral disoders aimed at changing
behaviors, thoughts perceptions and emotions is known as?

lazystretch818 --

The answer is "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy" or "CBT."

"[CBT's] goals are to restructure one's thoughts, perceptions, and
beliefs. Such restructuring facilitates behavioral and emotional
change. During therapy, coping skills and abilities are assessed and
further developed.
RSM Psychology Center: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
http://www.rsmpsychology.com/cognitive_behavioral_therapy.htm


CBT is a therapy that is very popular these days because it is
intended to be relatively short-term (as opposed to psychoanalysis and
some other "talk" therapies) and because it seems to be especially
effective (sometimes along with medication) in treating a range of
anxiety disorders.


Here is a link to an authoritative website's discussion of anxiety
disorders and the role of CBT in treating them.  Scroll about 7/8 down
the page for the discussion about CBT:
National Institute of Mental Health: Anxiety Disorders
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/anxiety.cfm


Search Strategy:

I am familiar with CBT and used this Google search to find the
specific information that I have provided for you:

cognitive behavioral OR cbt perceptions thoughts
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22cognitive+behavioral%22+OR+cbt+perceptions+thoughts


I am confident that this is the information you are seeking.  If
anything is unclear, please ask for clarification before rating this
answer.


markj-ga