The Cognitive Behavior Therapy Arena provides researchers, instructors and students in Cognitive Behavior Therapy with information on the range of books and journals produced by Routledge, and Psychology Press.
CBT is a short-term psychological treatment which is particularly suitable for specific, focused problems ranging from phobias and panic attacks to eating disorders and depression. It involves recognising distorted thinking and learning to replace it with more realistic substitute ideas.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy News:
Routledge launches Mental Health podcast
Beginning May 2008, we're releasing regular interviews with figures in the world of mental health, asking them about their fields of interest, opinions, and published works.
In our first podcast episode, Jane Harris interviews Denise Cullington, author of Breaking Up Blues, an indispensable, practical self-help book for those going through break-up and divorce.
Denise Cullington is a psychoanalyst living and working in Oxford. She trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis; the Tavistock Clinic, London; and as a Clinical Psychologist.
You can listen to the interview without subscribing to the podcast by simply going to the Breaking Up Blues mini-site.
If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast and have iTunes or other Podcast software installed then use one of the links below:
International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
The new official publication of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy, this state-of-the-science journal addresses all scientific and clinical aspects of cognitive therapy.
The scope of coverage is fittingly broad, encompassing basic research on cognitive clinical processes, innovative assessment and treatment technologies, expert perspectives on specific clinical problems and populations, and critical issues in translating research to practice.
Special issues on topics of particular interest to contemporary clinicians and researchers are also planned.
find out more about International Journal of Cognitive Therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Practical Guide To Helping People Take Control
This book explores the premise that negative beliefs play an important role in the development and continuation of mental health problems.
It offers a new integrative model of causality for instigating change, based on giving clients control and choice over these beliefs, and therefore over their mood and behaviour.
"This book is the first to consider the practicalities of helping people to change using CBT from the perspective of stigma, self stigma and labelling" - Paul Salkovskis, from the foreword
Net gains for mental health
The news that antidepressants may not be very effective could open the door for online therapy.
Isaac Marks, Professor Emeritus of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, and author of Hands-on Help: Computer-aided Psychotherapy explores this idea further in a recent article in The Times.
"Repetitive parts of the therapy are done by a computer, which can then make decisions based on their answers," says Marks. "A computer can train them to think in different ways."
find out more about Hands-on Help: Computer-aided Psychotherapy / order online
Dr. Bob Leahy at Routledge
December 12, 2007 - Routledge was pleased to welcome Dr. Bob Leahy, Director of The American Institute for Cognitive Therapy, to our New York offices as part of our Brown Bag Seminar lunch series.
Dr. Leahy, author of a bestselling trade book, The Worry Cure and most recently The Therapeutic Relationship in the Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, spoke to a packed room of 50 publishing professionals on "Turning Failure into Opportunity."
Using a mix of anecdotes and examples from clinical experiences, and invoking literary references from Aristotle to Shakespeare, Leahy delivered an insightful and motivating talk that left the audience, as Paul Dukes, Publisher of Psychology Press, commented in his closing remarks, "excited to go out and fall flat on my face."
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Cognitive Therapy For Personality Disorders: A Guide For Clinicians, Second Edition
It is increasingly recognized that a significant number of individuals with personality disorders can benefit from therapy.
In this new edition - based on the treatment of over a hundred patients with antisocial and borderline personality disorders - Kate Davidson demonstrates that clinicians using cognitive therapy can reduce a patient’s tendency to deliberately self-harm and to harm others; it also improves their psychological well-being.
Case studies and therapeutic techniques are described as well as current evidence from research trials for this group of patients.
find out more about Cognitive Therapy For Personality Disorders / order online
Moving On After Trauma: A Guide for Survivors, Family and Friends
The effects of extreme trauma can continue to be emotionally devastating.
Moving On After Trauma offers hope, providing survivors, family members and friends with a roadmap for managing emotional, relationship, physical and legal obstacles to recovery.
Dr Scott details examples of the strategies used by twenty characters who have recovered and the survivor (with or without the help of a family member, friend or counsellor) is encouraged to identify with one or more of them and follow in their footsteps.
find out more about Moving On After Trauma / order online
Developmental Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Adults
This book outlines a new cognitive approach that combines existing CBT theory and strategies with a lifespan developmental psychopathology perspective.
The major focus is on the relationship between mastery of normative psycho-social developmental tasks and mental health. Primary targets for therapy are maladaptive developmental pathways that have significantly disrupted the client's ability to cope with normal adult tasks and challenges...
find out more about Developmental Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Adults / order online
Getting Started with REBT
by Windy Dryden
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy encourages a healthier outlook by teaching individuals to challenge their irrational thoughts.
This concise guide to REBT is suitable for use either alone or in conjunction with work with an REBT therapist.
Getting Started with REBT provides a concise guide to assessing the suitability of REBT and using this method to address your emotional problems. The book is divided into two sections, beginning with an introduction to the theory and practice of REBT that will enable the reader to make an informed decision about whether this method is right for them.
more information about Getting Started with REBT / order online
Not in the United States?
The Routledge Mental Health CBT catalog 2007 is now available.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Social Anxiety Disorder
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