1st Edition
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Explained
104 Pages
by
CRC Press
104 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Panacea or revolution? 'Evidence-based medicine' and 'cost-effectiveness' have become buzz-phrases for a wide variety of initiatives and planning processes which aim to give patients treatments that will benefit them. On the surface this seems a reasonable idea, but there are underlying currents which cast doubt on the process and reveal methodological problems, which must be understood if the... Read more
Part 1: Background to cognitive behavioural psychotherapy. What is cognitive behavioural psychotherapy? General theory of cognitive behavioural psychotherapy. The cognitive behavioural in general psychiatry. Evidence base for cognitive behavioural psychotherapy. Part 2: Doing it: the practice of cognitive behavioural psychotherapy. Taking a patient on for CBT. General cognitive and behavioural techniques. Part 3: Cognitive behavioural psychotherapy applied to specific disorders. Depression. Bipolar affective disorder. Phobias and panic. Generalised anxiety disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorder. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Hallucinations and delusions. Personality disorders.
Biography
Graeme Whitfield, Alan Davidson
