Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques and Strategies
ognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a rich, complex, and evolving model of treatment that has been developed for and applied to a wide range of mental health and physical problems and disorders. From its early days in the 1970s, CBT has grown to become one of the preeminent models of psychotherapy, and it is widely distributed and used around the globe. Specific forms of CBT have been recognized as evidence based treatments for a vast array of disorders, from organizations as wide ranging as the American Psychiatric Association, the Australian Psychological Association, the British National Institute for Clinical Excellence, and many others in many parts of the world. This volume was written to elucidate and portray some of the key principles and therapeutic processes that are practiced by effective cognitive behavioral therapists. The organization of this book roughly follows the temporal sequence of a typical CBT application in that we begin with a discussion of the usual ways that we think broadly about the field and C