Psychology & Psychiatry : Clinical Psychology

The book guides the therapist through the selection of participants and the main phases of cognitive therapy: education, identification of automatic thoughts using the ABC method, identification of schemas through the vertical arrow method, challenging negative thinking by objective and logical analysis, countering negative beliefs, deconditioning any associated autonomic nervous system responses, and maintaining healthy thinking by means of cognitive techniques. more...

Price: $135.00

An ideal treatment manual that can be utilized independently, or in conjunction with psychopharmacological or 12-step programs, this book was written in response to the ever-growing need for cost-effective treatments for substance abuse disorders. Representing a major advance for meeting this pressing need, cognitive therapy offers a well-documented and demonstrably efficacious psychosocial treatment model for working with these intractable problems. Based on the research and practical experience of Aaron T. Beck and his colleagues, COGNITIVE THERAPY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE demonstrates how cognitive therapy can be used to effectively work with substance abusers and provides a detailed set of methods that can easily be replicated by therapists and counselors alike. 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 sessions. It discusses how to educate patients in the treatment model and procedures and manage their cravings and urges for drugs and alcohol. Specific cognitive and behavioral strategies and techniques are described in detail, as is the management of acute crises and chronic problems in patients' lives. Methods for understanding and working with such patients who present concomitant problems of depression, anxiety, low frustration tolerance, anger, and personality disorders are spelled out in detail. Also addressed are such significant issues as relapse prevention and the management of relapse when it occurs. Unlike the many works that focus on theory and epidemiology, COGNITIVE THERAPY OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE concentrates on clinical procedures in a way that is both teachable and testable. more...

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Updated and expanded for greater utility, this new edition of a well-received work is significantly revised and restructured to reflect major developments in the field. Comprehensive and clinically relevant, it focuses on empirically supported, state-of-the-art trauma treatments. Twelve of the 17 chapters are new, and the rest are extensively revised. more...

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Serving as a guide for practitioners, this book offers advice on how to structure and lead Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) groups and overcome common challenges that arise. Emphasizing that a CBT group is more than the sum of its individual members, it shows how to understand and use group process to optimize outcomes. more...

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All opioids have the potential for dependence, although heroin carries the highest risk. In the UK, there are approximately 250,000 opioid dependent drug users, with around 160,000 in treatment at some point during the course of a year. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction is a treatment manual that can be used by clinicians who have little experience of CBT, for treating their clients. The first two chapters explain how the manual can be used and review the evidence base for CBT as a psychological intervention. Chapter 3 introduces CBT techniques, Chapter 4 outlines assessment and case formulation and Chapter 5 suggests ways of setting up and structuring clinical sessions. Chapter 6 examines core topics such as problem solving and lifestyle changes, while Chapter 7 looks at elective topics such as anger and impulse control and relationship problems. The appendices include therapy worksheets, the daily thought record and drug refusal strategies.:.; Aimed at clinicians with little experience in CBT.; Offers specific guidelines on how to structure sessions and deliver treatment.; Topical - NICE guidelines on psychosocial approaches to drug misuse expected late 2008. more...

Price: $55.00