Global Journal of Psychology, Khanum & Bazzaz, pp. 58-62 Page 58 COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY AND ITS IMPACT Mahbuba Khanum 1 , Mahfuz Bazzaz 2 1,2 Bangladesh Open University, Gazipur, Bangladesh _____________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding Author: Mahbuba Khanum Article Received: 03-08-19 Accepted: 21-12-19 Published: 31-12-19 Licensing Details: Author retains the right of this article. The article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the Journal open access page. _____________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT The focus of the study was to test the influence of cognitive behavior therapy on parents with disable children. For this purpose, we used the experiment method and measured quality of life of parents with disable children before and after administration of cognitive behavior therapy. The methodology of the study was quantitative, experimental, survey based, and before-and- after research design. In this design, the quality of life was considered as an independent variable and the administration of the cognitive behavior therapy as independent variable or as an intervention. The duration of therapy was 2 months based on 2 times in a week on regular basis. the therapy was administered in a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh based on an NGO funded project. The results showed that parents with disable children showed significant improvement in psychological, social relationship, and environment domains of quality of life after receiving the behavior cognitive therapy. the results for the physical health dimension turned out to be insignificant. The study concludes that parents with disable children may be provided cognitive behavior therapy in order to improve their quality of life. Keywords: Quality of Life, Therapy, Cognitive, Disable, Parents, Bangladesh. _________________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION Parents who got a child with disability bring a lot of challenges. Mostly, the presence of disable child also poses stress to parents, however, based on different culture, there can be differences in terms of parents handling of stress (Malhotra, 2012). Previous studies show that disable child in a family bring a lot of exhaustion, tiredness, sense of self blame, marginalization in a society, overburden, and heightened stress (Talley and Crews, 2007). OPEN ACCESS Global Journal of Psychology Vol. 1(2), pp.58-62, December, 2019 Fair East Publishers Journal Homepage: www.fepbl.com/index.php/gjp