I've said over and over that CBT gets abused as a short-term therapy in cases where it needs to be incorporated into long-term therapy. Misused that way, it is an inevitable failure and that is a shame. I was SO very fortunate to fall upon a therapist who used CBT but most definitely not as a short-term therapy/solution. He saw it as a tool (not the only one) in my long-term therapy, and used thus, it was highly effective. CBT is only short-term perhaps in cases of mild and limited issues that can be fairly easily resolved. It can be used for trauma, but not as a stand-alone and certainly not as a quick fix.