This volume provides a unique perspective on the use of cognitive-behavioural therapy: rather than focusing on different forms or models of the approach, it examines its uses with a range of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, agoraphobia and chronic pain. Integrating clinical applications with empirical research, contributors also ......
`This book... will be particularly valuable for clinicians interested in child and adolescent depressive disorders, since it includes a lot of material from work with adults that is often hard for such clinicians to assess. A very useful addition to the library' - European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Leading practitioners and researchers contribute to this volume, which focuses on recent advances in the understanding and treatment of the common psychological difficulties of anxiety and depression. Chapters cover such topics as: self-management theory; unipolar depression; and the assessment and treatment of sexually abused children. With case examples and exercises highlighting important clinical concepts, the volume integrates empirical research with clinical applications.
An Individualized, Biopsychosocial Approach to Assessment and Treatment
This book offers integrative treatments for clinical depression based on the biopsychosocial model. Keith Dobson synthesizes decades of research and professional experience in this comprehensive guide that follows the therapy process from beginning to end.
In engaging language, this slim and approachable volume follows the typical sequence of delivering CBT to a client, with chapters focusing on assessment, case conceptualizations, core beliefs, behavioural strategies, problem-solving strategies, cultural responsiveness, and techniques to address distorted thinking.
Demonstrates and discusses essential techniques for helping clients identify distorted thoughts and move forward with positive alternatives. The guest experts explore interventions such as the application of thought assessment and modification, use of the thought record, and ways to help the client detect unhealthy beliefs that underlie negative, ......
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), a system of treatment involving a focus on thinking and its influence on both behavior and feelings, is one of the dominant approaches to psychotherapy. This illustrates multiple aspects of the CBT system of psychotherapy, including the setting conditions, parameters around the techniques, and the techniques ......
In this fifth program in the series, Keith S. Dobson, Pamela A. Hays, and Amy Wenzel demonstrate the application of strategies that facilitate core belief change within the client. This video program features a discussion of the definition of core beliefs and how they underlie automatic thoughts. This is followed by clips demonstrating ways to ......
This controversial study examines the effica cy of empirically validated interventions in the field of cl inical psychiatry. The contributors consider whether many su ch interventions are really valid in all cases and circumsta nces. '
