Eight Principles For A Modern CBT Re-Visioning Cognitive Behavior Therapy In Clinical Training

Eight Principles for a Modern CBT is a training guide for both new and experienced clinicians who want to understand and apply the newest developments in cognitive behavioral therapy. It’s a hands-on manual that helps readers sort through competing models for addressing cognitive change emotion processing and behavior change. When is acceptance indicated and how does one “do” acceptance in therapy? How can mindfulness be incorporated in ways that are brief simple to teach and effective? How should therapists use clients’ values and hopes as guides for setting a course in therapy rather than focusing exclusively on medicalized diagnoses? How does one tailor treatment for varying levels of severity of impairment? In these pages readers will find answers to and insights on these questions and much more including perspectives on evolutionary psychology and newer process-based models that put human suffering in a less medicalized and stigmatizing frame. |Eight Principles for a Modern CBT Re-Visioning Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Clinical Training