Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy / Edition 2

by Berni Curwen, Stephen Palmer, Peter Ruddell

Overview

This timely new edition describes how to use cognitive behaviour therapy successfully with clients in a brief, time-limited way. It covers a wide range of disorders including anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress, or those who are suicidal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412929172
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/12/2018
Series:	Brief Therapies series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is an award winning psychologist. He is Founder Director of the Centre for Coaching and Centre for Stress Management, London. He is the UK's first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at the Institute for Work Based Learning, Middlesex University.

He has authored over 225 articles and 40 books on counselling, psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, coaching and coaching psychology, and stress management. He is UK Coordinating Editor of International Coaching Psychology Review, Executive Editor of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research & Practice, and Consulting Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion of Health Promotion & Education.

He is actively involved in a number of professional bodies. Currently he is Honorary President of the International Stress Management Association (UK); President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology; Founder Co-Chair of the London Branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies; a Founder Director and Vice President of the Society of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy; a Director and Deputy Chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. He is a Former President and now Honorary Vice President of the Institute for Health Promotion & Education. He was the 1st Chair of the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology and was the 1st Honorary President of the Association for Coaching.

His interests include jazz, art and coastal walking.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Cognitive Behaviour Framework
Assessment
Beginning Stage of Therapy
Middle Stage of Therapy
End Stage of Therapy
Additional Strategies and Techniques
Hyponosis as an Adjunct to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Brief Therapy - Groups
Treatment Protocols

Editorial Reviews

Highly readable and with a welcome focus on psycho-education, the themes and principles in this gem of a book are as relevant to the coach and the enquiring client as they are to the CBT therapist.

Mary Watts

This new edition to the book provides a significant contribution to supporting those in the caring professions to nurture and develop those in need.

Professor Sir Cary Cooper

‘[This] will be a useful resource for anyone who is interested in learning more about Cognitive Behaviour Therapy' - Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy

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