Product Description

Using CBT in General Practice provides GPs with an overview of the basic principles of CBT and shows how these principles can be applied within a typical 10 minute consultation. The book is written in a user-friendly, interactive and practical style and focuses on realistic ways to make CBT work by helping patients to make positive changes to their lives. Key features include: * case examples to highlight how the techniques can be applied in practice for patients with particular problems or clinical conditions * problem-solving sections describe how to manage time constraints * a new consultation model that can be used to implement CBT in general practice * overviews of the major clinical psychological conditions that can be treated using CBT Using CBT in General Practice uniquely provides the practical advice needed to implement CBT within the time constraints of a busy practice - it is therefore essential reading for all GPs who must now offer CBT as a treatment option. As this is a practical manual and not just a book of theory, it will also appeal to other professionals involved in the management of patients with psychological problems such as practice nurses, health visitors, community psychiatric nurses, practice counsellors and palliative care doctors. From the foreword: I wish Lee David' s book had been around 20 years ago; because then I could have helped a lot more people and had a lot more fun. I wish every GP would read it; because then they' d be able to help a lot more people and have a lot more fun. Roger Neighbour MA DSc FRCP PRCGP .

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #112658 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 350 pages

Customer Reviews

GREAT!! Short, practical techniques to transform consultations
This is a fantastic book for GPs and health care professionals. It most definitely has helped to change and improve my consultations, as the way the techniques are presented in the book makes them easy to try out in practice, so bit by bit you can build up your skills. Unlike other CBT books, it is written by a GP for GPs and so there is a clear and practical focus on what can realistically be done in a 10 minute consultation. It has helped me especially in dealing with heart sink patients, who I now no longer dread. It is also very useful for helping your regular 'depression review' patients to 'move on'. I highly recommend this book as it is a really enjoyable read as well as being the one book that has made the most difference to my daily practice.

Using CBT
Unlike many other books on psychological techniques, this book is clearly aimed at working GPs who have to fit their patients into 10 minute slots. Throughout the book the author writes from her background knowledge as a practising UK GP, giving practical suggestions as to how her model of CBT can be integrated into some consultations in everyday general practice. The book is well written, easy to read and has frequent highlighted 'bullet points'. The practical examples used demonstrate how the CBT techniques can be used in ordinary consultations. She describes how the model can be used in consultations with particular groups of patients eg 'heartsinks', anxious patients and patients with panic attacks. She leads you through her techniques and encourages you to try them a bit at a time in your own consultations. This book is well worth a read by both registrars and experienced GPs.

Using CBT in General Practice-review
This is a fantastic and extremely timely book. It will prove essential reading for those GPs and health professionals who want to take their consultation skills to a new level. As a GP, I have found the techniques described in the book invaluable in the management of patients with chronic disease, chronic pain, and multiple unexplained symptoms, as well as those with anxiety and depression. I have been genuinely amazed at the success of the approach in patients that I have previously viewed as difficult to manage. The beauty of this approach is that it is practical and easy to use effectively within a 10 minute consultation. The author encourages us to build on the skills we already possess and gives readers the confidence to try out this approach in their own unique situations. The book itself is easy to navigate and very user-friendly-the ideal format for a handbook which I find myself reaching for often. I have also found some of the concepts in the book useful in my teaching work with medical students, helping them to learn a reflective approach. I hope that those GPs using the approach outlined will find it as rewarding as I have.