Full Description
Negative rumination plays a key role in the onset and maintenance of depression and anxiety--and targeting this persistent mental habit in treatment can lead to better client outcomes and reduced residual symptoms. Rumination-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (RFCBT) for depression combines carefully adapted elements of CBT with imagery, visualization, and compassion-based techniques. Leading clinician-researcher Edward R. Watkins provides everything needed to implement this innovative, empirically supported 12-session approach, including sample dialogues, a chapter-length case example, reflections and learning exercises for therapists, and 10 reproducible client handouts. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.
Contents
I. Rumination Processes in Psychopathology and Treatment
1. Why a Treatment Targeting Rumination?
2. Understanding Rumination
3. Key Components and Principles of RFCBT
II. Rumination-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
4. Initial Assessment
5. Therapy Rationale and Goal Setting
6. Functional Analysis of Rumination
7. Choosing Treatment Interventions
8. Practice at Developing Interventions: Addressing Difficulties and Hurdles
9. Shifting Processing Style: Becoming Concrete and Specific
10. Shifting Processing Style: Absorption
11. Shifting Processing Style: Compassion
III. Application and Extension of RFCBT
12. A Case of RFCBT from Beginning to End
13. Adaptations of RFCBT
Appendix. Handouts
References
Index
