Product Description

Cognitive behaviour therapy is now established as the leading psychological treatment for many psychiatric conditions. This innovative book gives a guide to practising the therapy with patients suffering from a wide range of emotional disorders. Unlike other handbooks which extensively review research findings, this concentrates on showing the reader how to perform the therapy in practice.
Acknowledged experts in the practice, teaching, and empirical investigation of cognitive behaviour therapy contribute to the book. It provides a summary of the cognitive behavioural principles on which the therapy is based, followed by a detailed account of how to carry out a cognitive-behavioural assessment. Subsequent chapters provide self-contained descriptions of how to use the therapy to treat particular conditions: panic and generalized anxiety, phobic disorders, depression, obsessional
disorders, somatic problems, eating disorders, chronic psychiatric handicaps, marital problems, and sexual dysfunctions. A final chapter provides a description of problem-solving training. Each chapter describes the condition, assessment procedures, factors likely to be important in formulating the problem, and then the treatment, step-by-step. Particular attention is paid to overcoming difficulties encountered during treatment, and extensive use is made of clinical material and case
illustrations. This is an excellent guide to the practice of cognitive behaviour therapy for all those beginning to use the technique.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14146 in Books
• Published on: 1989-06-29
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 472 pages

British Medical Journal
`The editors have done an excellent editorial job and all the chapters follow a straightforward format, introducing the disorder, discussing formulation, assessment, and treatment, and finishing with a summary of the relevant research evaluating the treatment...'

British Journal of Medical Psychology
`A very good addition to the burgeoning literature... will be a standard text on cognitive-behavioural therapy in Britain for some time to come.'

British Journal of Medical Psychology
`A very good addition to the burgeoning literature... will be a standard text on cognitive-behavioural therapy in Britain for some time to come.'

Customer Reviews

Outstanding
This is one of the finest books that I have ever read. It is invaluable for both an introduction to CBT and as a handbook for experienced researchers and clinical professionals. I cannot rate it too highly. Whilst I would not normally use a book published in 1989, this book is so good that this is not really an issue.

CONTENT NOW DATED
Whereas this book was once an essential guide to the best of cognitive therapy, it is by now certainly out dated and urgently in need of a second edition. There have been huge advances in understandings within cognitive therapy in the years since this book was first published (1989)and interventions are improving all the time.I do not think that this book offers the best of the therapy any longer though, it will have historical significance as the first UK published book on cognitive approaches to treatment.

Change in behavior leads to change in cognition
I do not agree with the review above. The book is not an encyclopedia of cognitive therapy. It is a brief, practical handbook. It is on this basis it should be evaluated. Starting chapters with diagnostic categories is not incompatible with treating patients with an open, hypothesis testing mind! Organizing therapautic procedures simply works better this way. A focus on behavioral change is not unusual, after all, most studies on effective components of cognitive therapy point to behavior as the interventionist key.