Beck’s Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features

Frank Wills, “Beck’s Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features”
English | ISBN: 0415439523, 0415439515 | 2009 | 193 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Beck’s Cognitive Therapy: Distinctive Features explores the key contributions made by Aaron T. Beck to the development of cognitive behaviour therapy.

This book provides a concise account of Beck’s work against a background of his personal and professional history. The author, Frank Wills, considers the theory and practice of Beck’s cognitive therapy by firstly examining his contribution to the understanding of psychopathology, and going on to explore Beck’s suggestions about the best methods of treatment. Throughout the book a commentary of how Beck’s thinking differs from other approaches to CBT is provided, as well as a summary of the similarities and differences between Beck’s methods and other forms of treatment including psychoanalysis and humanistic therapy.

Beck’s Cognitive Therapy will be ideal reading for both newcomers to the field and experienced practitioners wanting a succinct guide.

A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT using Method of Levels Therapy: Distinctive Features

Warren Mansell, Timothy A. Carey, Sara J. Tai, “A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT using Method of Levels Therapy: Distinctive Features”
English | ISBN: 0415507642, 0415507634 | 2012 | 192 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is the treatment of choice for most mental health problems. Each different problem is usually treated by a different model of CBT. Yet evidence tells us that the same processes are responsible for long term distress in us all. This handy manual draws on evidence and theory to provide the key principles to aid change and recovery.

The transdiagnostic approach is supported by a wealth of evidence that processes such as worry, emotion suppression, self-criticism and avoidance maintain distress across psychological disorders. Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) explains all of these processes as forms of ‘inflexible control’, and Method of Levels Therapy (MOL) helps people to let go of these habits. The principles and techniques of MOL are clearly and practically described for clinicians to offer a transdiagnostic CBT that is tailor-made to the goals of each client.

This novel volume will be essential reading for novice and experienced CBT therapists, as well as counsellors and psychotherapists. Its accessible explanation of Perceptual Control Theory and its application to real world problems also makes a useful resource for undergraduates, graduates and researchers in psychology.

Existential Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques

Susan Iacovou, Karen Weixel-Dixon, “Existential Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques”
English | ISBN: 0415644429, 0415644410 | 2015 | 268 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Less of an orientation and more a way of understanding the challenges of being human, existential therapy draws on rich and diverse philosophical traditions and ways of viewing the world. Traditionally it has been seen as difficult to summarise and comprehend and the air of mystery surrounding existential ideas has been exacerbated by the dense language often used by philosophers and practitioners. Existential Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to a fascinating and exciting body of knowledge, and the therapeutic approach it informs. Divided into five parts the topics covered include:

Existentialism – inception to present day

Theoretical assumptions

Existential phenomenological therapy in practice

Ethics and existential therapy

Bringing it all together

Existential Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques will be essential reading for all trainee and qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists who want to use the wisdom of existential ideas in their work with clients. It will also benefit clients and potential clients who want to find out how existential ideas and existential therapy can help them explore what it means to be alive.

Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children: A Model for Practice

Richard Rose, “Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children: A Model for Practice”
English | ISBN: 1849052727 | 2012 | 196 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.

This comprehensive overview lays out the theory underlying life story therapy, including an accessible explanation of contemporary research in neurobiology and trauma. Featuring tried and tested ideas, with tools and templates illustrated through instructive case studies, the author identifies how life story therapy can be implemented in practice. Finally, the relationships between life story therapy and traditional ‘talking’ therapies are explored.

Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children is essential reading for those working with children and adolescents, including social workers, teachers, child psychotherapists, residential care staff, long-term carers, psychologists and other professionals.

Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn"t Teach You and Medication Can"t Give You (repost)

Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You by Richard O’Connor
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0316043419 | 384 pages | EPUB | 0,5 MB

Like heart disease, says psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, depression is fueled by complex and interrelated factors: genetic, biochemical, environmental. In this refreshingly sensible book, O’Connor focuses on an additional factor often overlooked: our own habits. Unwittingly we get good at depression. We learn how to hide it, how to work around it. We may even achieve great things, but with constant struggle rather than satisfaction. Relying on these methods to make it through each day, we deprive ourselves of true recovery, of deep joy and healthy emotion.

UNDOING DEPRESSION teaches us how to replace depressive patterns with a new and more effective set of skills. We already know how to “do” depression-and we can learn how to undo it. With a truly holistic approach that synthesizes the best of the many schools of thought about this painful disease, O’Connor offers new hope-and new life-for sufferers of depression.