Series: CBT Distinctive Features

Beck's Cognitive Therapy explores the key contributions made by Aaron T. Beck to the development of cognitive behaviour therapy. The book describes the development of the unique model of therapy developed by Professor Aaron T. Beck and his daughter, Dr. Judith S. Beck. The first part on theory explains how the Becks understand psychological problems. The second part on practice...

Beck's Cognitive Therapy explores the key contributions made by Aaron T. Beck to the development of cognitive behaviour therapy. The book describes the development of the unique model of therapy developed by Professor Aaron T. Beck and his daughter, Dr. Judith S. Beck. The first part on theory explains how the Becks understand psychological problems. The second part on practice...

Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy (CBCT) is an enhanced and contextually grounded approach that provides evidence-based strategies for working with couple distress, as well as individual psychopathology in the context of a distressed relationship. Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy: Distinctive Features explores this truly integrative and experiential way of working. This model has significantly widened the traditional CBT focus on cognition and...

Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy (CBCT) is an enhanced and contextually grounded approach that provides evidence-based strategies for working with couple distress, as well as individual psychopathology in the context of a distressed relationship. Cognitive Behavioural Couple Therapy: Distinctive Features explores this truly integrative and experiential way of working. This model has significantly widened the traditional CBT focus on cognition and...

Research into the beneficial effect of developing compassion has advanced enormously in the last ten years, with the development of inner compassion being an important therapeutic focus and goal. This book explains how Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) — a process of developing compassion for the self and others to increase well-being and aid recovery — varies from other forms of...

This new edition of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features (MBCT) provides a concise, straightforward overview of MBCT, fully updated to include recent developments. The training process underpinning MBCT is based on mindfulness meditation practice and invites a new orientation towards internal experience as it arises—one that is characterised by acceptance and compassion. The approach supports a recognition that even though...

The popularity of using narrative, metaphor, and building solutions in CBT has increased in recent years. Narrative CBT, part of the third wave of cognitive therapies, recognises the importance of helping to build new ideas and practices in order to create change, examining a person’s multiple and evolving narratives and their behaviour as intrinsically meaningful. In Narrative CBT, John Rhodes...

Trial-Based Cognitive Therapy (TBCT) is a new model of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) that organises standard cognitive and behavioural techniques in a step-by-step fashion. This approach makes CBT more easily mastered by the new therapist, more easily understood by the patients, and simpler to implement, whilst still maintaining flexibility and CBT’s recognised effectiveness. Dividing thirty key features into two parts:...

Trial-Based Cognitive Therapy (TBCT) is a new model of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) that organises standard cognitive and behavioural techniques in a step-by-step fashion. This makes CBT more easily mastered by the new therapist, more easily understood by the patients, and simpler to implement, whilst still maintaining flexibility and CBT’s recognised effectiveness. Dividing thirty key features into two parts, ‘Theory...