This guide draws on the authors' experience as clinicians and teachers of cognitive therapy to help clients successfully understand and improve their moods, alter their behaviour, and enhance their relationships. Illustrated with case examples, the book presents the skills for identifying problems, setting goals, and achieving the desired changes.
Two renowned psychologists offer an innovative approach to solving long-term emotional problems based on the proven principles of cognitive therapy. As seen on Oprah, this guide shows how to effectively change negative thought patterns.
Written in a clear, step-by-step style, this ideal teaching text makes cognitive therapy immediately accessible to students, beginning therapists, and seasoned practitioners who are not familiar with the cognitive approach.
According to Aaron Beck, many couples therapy books tend to focus on lack of communication in the relationship rather than the problem of miscommunication. This problem occurs when partners have lived together long enough that each begins to practice what Beck refers to as "presumed mind reading," i.e. one presumes to understand exactly what the ...
The widely acclaimed "father of cognitive psychotherapy" adds a new introduction to the gold-standard book on anxiety disorders and phobias At the forefront of the cognitive revolution, renowned psychiatrist Aaron T Beck turned to information processing in order to understand the sources, consequences and cures of anxiety disorders and phobias. In ...
Cognitive therapy offers a well-documented and cost-effective psychosocial treatment model for working with substance abuse disorders. Comprehensive and accessible, this volume clearly details the cognitive model of substance abuse, the specifics of case formulation, management of the therapeutic relationship, and the structure of the therapy ...
This important work presents a cognitive framework for understanding and treating personality disorders. In one volume, Aaron T. Beck and his distinguished coauthors offer both a comprehensive overview of scientific knowledge and a detailed guide to individualized treatment. Part I lays out the conceptual, empirical, and clinical foundations of ...
In this work, Aaron T. Beck, renowned for his pioneering research in cognitive therapy, applies his principles regarding the thinking process to humanity's potential for evil. After identifying elements of interpersonal conflict, Beck reasons that all violent interactions--whether they are domestic or international--are caused by dysfunctional ...
From identifying your triggers to improving your relationships, this work helps you to manage your emotional wellbeing. Struggling to cope with anxiety and/or depression? Have no fear - this hands-on guide focuses on helping you pinpoint the root of your problems and find relief from your symptoms in a detailed, step-by-step manner. With concise, ...
"What do you have to be depressed about?" Bet you've heard that one before. Or how about, "You're depressed? Just get over it!" Easier said than done, right? Or here's a favorite, "They have a pill for that now, you know." Unfortunately, such naive armchair psychology rarely works for someone suffering from the very real plight of depression. All ...
Roy F. Baumeister, a social psychologist at Case Western Reserve University, investigates the social causes and possible solutions to the violence and cruelty exhibited in murder, rape, street crime, war, emotional abuse, wife beatings, racial and ethnic hatreds, and more. Baumeister's study argues that "evil" derives not from mental cripples with ...
Is the emotionally disturbed person a victim of forces beyond his awareness, over which he has no control? This is the belief on which neuropsychiatry, psychoanalysis, and behaviour therapy are all based. But what if this premise is wrong? What if a person's psychological difficulties stem from his own erroneous assumptions and faulty concepts of ...
Now in its revised and expanded second edition, this comprehensive text brings together leading cognitive-behavioural practitioners to describe effective interventions for a broad range of crisis situations. From panic disorder, Cluster B personality disorders, and suicidal depression, to substance abuse, rape, sexual abuse, family crises, natural ...
This work provides an account of the lives, thoughts and struggles of people who suffer from phobias, panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Using cognitive therapy and supported exposure techniques, the author identifies anxiety-producing thoughts and shows how they can be managed.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has a well-elaborated theoretical background. However, new specific theoretical formulations and techniques continually appear, and these new developments are covered in this book. Topics include: Management of major depression, suicidal behaviour and Bipolar Disorder Treatment of anxiety disorders Application ...
More than forty years ago, Dr. Aaron T. Beck's pioneering Depression: Causes and Treatment presented the first comprehensive account of all aspects of depression and introduced cognitive therapy to health care providers and patients struggling with one of the most common and devastating diseases of the modern age. Since that classic text first ...
This landmark work was the first to present a cognitive framework for understanding and treating personality disorders. Now Aaron T. Beck and his distinguished team of co-authors present an extensively rewritten and updated second edition, integrating over a decade's worth of tremendous advances in theory and practice. Part 1 lays out the ...
Following on the success of the bestselling "Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond", this groundbreaking book from Judith S. Beck addresses what to do when a patient is not making progress in cognitive-behavioural therapy. Provided is practical, step-by-step guidance on conceptualizing and solving frequently encountered problems, whether in ...
In this balanced and critical overview, an international team of experts examines systematically the evidence in support of the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral approaches to treating clinical problems across the lifespan. They analyse the cognitive models of psychopathology on which these treatments are based, and identify the clinical and ...
Pioneering in its cognitive approach to psychotherapy, this broad survey of all aspects of depression is considered definitive in its field. It includes a comprehensive review of symptomatology, biology, psychology, theories, and treatment of depression. Based on his own experimental findings, Dr. Beck has synthesized a new approach to depression ...
This volume presents a comprehensive statement of cognitive theory and maps the dynamic evolution of cognitive therapy into a multidimensional approach applicable to an impressive range of problems.
Experts report that 17 million people in the US suffer from clinical depression; 50% of the people who recover will relapse within three years. This is the first book with up-to-date strategies to defeat this statistic and address the problem of depression relapse. Ending the Depression Cycle includes step-by-step strategies for preventing ...
Since the publication of Aaron Beck's Cognitive Therapy in 1967, cognitive therapy has established itself as one of the major ways of treating depression. Its applications are, however, much wider and it is being used in an increasingly broad range of clinical situations - with the physically ill, the hypochondriacal, obsessional patients, and ...
From Aaron T. Beck and colleagues, this is the definitive work on the cognitive model of schizophrenia and its treatment. The volume integrates cognitive-behavioral and biological knowledge into a state-of-the-science conceptual framework. It comprehensively examines the origins, development, and maintenance of key symptom areas: delusions, ...
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