Full Description
This book describes strategic decision making, a flexible yet evidenced-based approach to making clinical decisions in order to move treatment forward in cognitive behavioral therapy. It dispels the myth that there is a single amp ldquo right amp rdquo therapeutic intervention that must be delivered in any one instance in fact, many courses of action can facilitate change provided they are implemented strategically.
Strategic decisions (a) follow logically from the case conceptualization, (b) are arrived upon collaboratively between the therapist and patient, (c) allow the patient to leave the session with something new, and (d) are seen through in their entirety before their effectiveness is evaluated.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Common Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Strategies
Chapter : Cognitive Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning
Chapter 2: Session Structure
Chapter 3: Psychoeducation and Motivational Enhancement
Chapter 4: Cognitive Restructuring: Automatic Thoughts
Chapter 5: Cognitive Restructuring: Beliefs
Chapter : Behavioral Activation
Chapter 7: Problem Solving
Chapter 8: Exposure
Chapter 9: Affective Coping Skills
Chapter : Relapse Prevention and Completion of Treatment
Part II: Clinical Applications
Chapter : Case Study: Chronic Depression
Chapter 2: Case Study: Chronic Anxiety
Chapter 3: Case Study: Serious Mental Illness
Conclusion
References
Index
About the Author
