Cognitive Therapy Techniques, First Edition: A Practitioner's Guide - Softcover

Robert L. Leahy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572309059 ISBN 13: 9781572309050

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 2003

Synopsis

A proven clinical resource, this book is packed with useful tools and interventions that will expand the repertoire of novice and experienced cognitive therapists. Detailed are the full variety of evidence-based techniques that can be brought to bear on specific client problems and therapeutic challenges. Therapists will rediscover--or learn for the first time--a wealth of effective ways to identify and challenge thoughts and core beliefs; modify patterns of worry, self-criticism, and approval-seeking; evaluate personal schemas; intervene in emotional processes; and activate new experiences for the client. Each technique is thoroughly described in Robert L. Leahy's trademark accessible style and illustrated with vivid case examples. Designed in a convenient large-size format, the book is bursting with 88 reproducible client forms and handouts.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert L. Leahy, PhD, is Director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York and Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. His research focuses on individual differences in theory of emotion regulation. Dr. Leahy is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Cognitive Therapy and is past president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy, and the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He is the 2014 recipient of the Aaron T. Beck Award from the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.

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List of Forms
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Eliciting Thoughts and Assumptions
2. Evaluating and Challenging Thoughts
3. Evaluating Assumptions and Rules
4. Evaluating Worries
5. Information Processing and Logical Errors
6. Putting Things in Perspective
7. Schema-Focused Therapy
8. Emotional Processing Techniques
9. Examining and Challenging Cognitive Distortions
10. Modifying Need for Approval
11. Challenging Self-Criticism
12. Concluding Comments

References
Index

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1572309059
• ISBN 13: 9781572309050
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 347