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.
Beck, a world-recognized authority in the field of cognitive therapy, presents her first weight-loss book. In it, she has created a unique six-week-plan that revolutionizes peoples approach to shedding pounds by changing both behavior and thinking.
In his bestseller Feeling Good, Dr David Burns helped pioneer and popularise cognitive therapy, helping millions to find lasting relief from debilitating depression. Building on that, this book offers a programme for improving mood without drugs.'
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.
This therapy of Dr Burns is based on the premise that people create their own moods, and thus can learn to change the way they look and feel. He shows how to apply techniques and provides strategies for overcoming fears, phobias and panic attacks. He deals with hypochondria and various forms of social anxiety; improving intimate interpersonal ...
Antidepressants are a miracle, but to really beat depression we need to change our whole way of thinking. This book is a great introduction to a process--known as cognitive therapy--that can help us do just that. According to David M. Burns, depression results from a process wherein negative thoughts produce distortions of reality. Through a ...
In this work, Marsha M. Linehan not only provides specific guidelines that creatively combine the best elements of behavioral, personality, psychoanalytic, strategic and other commonly employed modalities, but helps the therapist survive the process.
Thoughts & Feelings adapts the powerful and widely adaptable techniques of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) into a set of tools readers can use, not to solve a particular problem, but to overcome any of the emotional and behavioral changes that life throws their way. CBT recognizes that most negative feelings arise from confused, irrational ...
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 ...
"The Beck Diet Solution" taught America how to THINK THIN; now best-selling author Dr. Judith Beck presents a meal plan that works with her Cognitive Therapy techniques that trains you how to EAT THIN and lose weight naturally and permanently. Designed to take the guesswork out of dieting, "The Complete Beck Diet for Life "features a host of Dr. ...
With this workbook, the authors offer a much needed resource to people struggling with depression and to the professionals who help them. The text offers readers powerful strategies for overcoming depression in simple, direct language, amply illustrated with stories and reinforced by techniques they can practice right away.
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 ...
Antidepressants are a miracle, but to really beat depression we need to change our whole way of thinking. This book is a great introduction to a process--known as cognitive therapy--that can help us do just that. According to David M. Burns, depression results from a process wherein negative thoughts produce distortions of reality. Through a ...
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 ...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is now rated the fourth most common psychological disorder in the United States. This resource addresses obsessive thoughts as a specific symptom of the disorder, and in addition to self-care strategies, offers information about professional care.
Highly readable and filled with practical advice, Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda analyzes case studies and provides exercises for recognizing and changing negative thought patterns in a practical program to enable people to get rid of crippling regrets about the past and regain control of their lives.
Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy (CIT) is a radically different method for developing more loving and satisfying relationships. In his latest work, Dr. Burns shows how to resolve virtually any kind of relationship conflict almost instantly by utilizing this method.
This one-of-a-kind resource provides the busy practitioner with empirically supported treatments for seven frequently encountered disorders: major depression, generalized anxiety , panic and agoraphobia, PTSD, social phobia, specific phobia, and obsessive compulsive disorder. Serving as ready- to-use treatment packages, chapters describe basic ...
This best-selling classic work shows how psychotherapists can effectively treat depressive disorders. Case examples generously illustrate a wide range of strategies and techniques.
Learning to understand the function and interpret the signal of depression may be a much more important goal than finding out how to simply make it go away. Based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this book offers a new approach to coping with depression.
This respected text skillfully combines evidence-based interviewing skills and cognitive-behavioral intervention change strategies applicable to a wide range of client ages, cultural backgrounds, and problems in living. The book interweaves attention to conceptual and empirical foundations with an emphasis on practical skills and real-life factors ...
In this long-awaited sequel to the revolutionary Feeling Good, Dr. David Burns reveals powerful new techniques that enable readers to cope with the full range of everyday problems.
This text presents an innovative eight-session programme designed to prevent relapse in clients who have recovered from depression. Integrating cognitive therapy principles and practice into a mindfulness framework, the approach has been proven effective in controlled clinical research. The authors demonstrate how to teach clients to make a ...
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