Full Description
For the newly trained Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, there are a wealth of challenges and difficulties faced, as they try and apply their new found skills in the outside world. These might include the stresses of working in isolation, and finding it difficult to widen their scope or bounce ideas of other CBT therapists; or the need for practical advice on setting up group therapy; the possible conflicts betweens ethical practice and theory; how to retain ones integrity as a therapist, while maintaing a viable business practice; dealing with diverse communities, or becoming a supervisor.
The Oxford Guide to Surviving CBT Practice is the one-stop resource for the newly trained therapist. It offers practical guidance on a range of issues and challenges faced by the therapist. Written by people with vast experience of training and practising CBT, it draws on real life situations to help the reader hone and develop their skills, adjust to life as a therapist, and maintain a successful and satisfying career whilst helping others.
With thousands of new CBT therapists being trained over the coming years, this book will be a constant companion for all those starting life as a therapist, one they will want to have to hand at all times.
Contents
1. Common problems in therapy ; 2. Using CBT with diverse patients: Working with South Asian Muslim ; 3. Looking after yourself ; 4. Ethics ; 5. Patient perspectives on receiving CBT written by patients ; 6. Low-intensity CBT ; 7. Brief CBT in GP surgeries and community settings ; 8. CBT in groups ; 9. Systemic aspects of CBT ; 10. Doing CBT through others ; 11. Working in multidisciplinary teams ; 12. CBT with inpatients in mental health settings ; 13. Physical health settings ; 14. Going at it alone ; 15. Developing and progressing as a CBT therapist ; 16. Becoming a supervisor ; 17. Training skills ; 18. Research and evaluation ; 19. Service development ; 20. When therapists have problems: What can CBT do for us?
