That is the point! Good going! Nearly always when someone or some site is referring to the category it is hyphenated (as viewed above) and I think that's fine... but very proper to give THE " " wCBT(ith the pretty standard use of the "basics" as Ellis and Beck warranted) the proper usage. I would dream of changing anyone else's term of therapy when directly referring TO it. Kind of like a "copyright" name maybe?

There are plenty of cognitive-behavioral therapies... if referring to CBT itself, then that's Cognitive Behavior Therapy. See what I mean?<font color="blue">
Here's more food for thought:
cognitivetherapy.com/learning.html

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Meanwhile, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in the office of clinical psychologist Albert Ellis, and in Philadelphia in the office of psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck, parallel changes were under way. Both of these eminent psychotherapists noticed how people's thoughts seemed to correlate closely with their feelings, moods and actions. Moreover, they were willing to assume that, at least a good part of the time, their patients' troubles were being caused by the form and content of their thoughts and their beliefs about themselves and the world.

This was a radical shift from the psychoanalytic view, which seeks to explain “neurotic” experience and behavior in terms of events remote in time, particularly early childhood. The trouble with this approach is that, at best, it can explain how a person's troubles first began. Left without a truly satisfactory answer is the question of how early experiences could be responsible for difficulties in the present. Ellis's and Beck's cognitive focus helped bridge this gap, and brought the new, expanded scope of learning theory into applied psychology and psychiatry.

In addition, Ellis and Beck stressed conscious thought, which psychoanalysis had tended to dismiss as little more than a voice-over narration, or as a breeding-ground for comfortable excuses, while the ”real” motives behind people's behavior were to be found in the unconscious. Cognitive psychology also recognizes and studies unconscious processes (the “cognitive unconscious”), but defines them very differently and accords them a less central role in determining behavior. For cognitive psychologists there is no murderous, sex-crazed “id” to be tamed — only ordinary biological processes.

Classical behavior therapy, based on the work of Pavlov, Watson, Skinner and their adherents, and cognitive therapy, based on the work of Ellis, Beck, and countless cognitive researchers in university research labs, began as separate and distinct applications of learning theory to clinical work. But in time their fundamental compatibility was recognized, and since the 70s most science-oriented therapists have practiced cognitive behavior therapy (more commonly though less accurately called cognitive-behavioral therapy), or CBT.

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Why shouldn't we care? Why shouldn't it matter? If I labeled something a certain way, I'd want it called that, and delineated from other "sister" items. What's the difference to others (you) that there is a difference in terminology? Why is there a struggle between the masses over this?