The therapeutic relationship in CBT is often reduced to a cursory description of establishing warmth, genuineness and empathy in order to foster a collaborative relationship. This does not reflect the different approaches needed to establish a therapeutic partnership for the wide range of disorders and settings in which CBT is applied. This book takes a client group and disorder approach with chapters split into four sections:
General issues in the therapeutic relationship in CBT
Therapeutic relationship issues in specific disorders
Working with specific client groups
Interpersonal considerations in particular delivery situations
Each chapter outlines key challenges therapists face in a specific context, how to predict and prevent ruptures in the therapeutic alliance and how to work with these ruptures when they occur. With clinical vignettes, dialogue examples and 'tips for therapists' this book is key reading for CBT therapists at all levels.
SECTION 1
1. The therapeutic relationship - Stirling Moorey & Anna Lavender
2. Alliance Ruptures - Stirling Moorey & Anna Lavender
3. Interpersonal schemas, 'transference' and 'countertransference' in CBT - Stirling Moorey & Anna Lavender
SECTION 2
4. Depression - Stirling Moorey
5. Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Kevin Meares, Susan Harrison & Mark Freeston
6. Panic and Phobias - Richard Stott
7. OCD, BDD and Hoarding - Lisa Williams & David Veale
8. Medically Unexplained Symptoms - David McCormack & Trudie Chadler
9. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Nick Grey & Kerry Young
10. Psychosis - Rebecca Kelly, Annis Cohen & Emmanuelle Peters
11. Eating disorders - Ulrike Schmidt
12. Physical illness and Palliative Care - Stirling Moorey & Kathy Burn
13. Personality Disorders - Anna Lavender & Helen Startup
SECTION 3
14. Children and Adolescents - Troy Tranah & Lorna Taylor
15. Older adults - Debbie Walker & Charlotte Gardner
16. Black and Minority Ethnic Groups - Patricia D'Ardenne
SECTION 4
17. Group CBT - Graeme Whitfield & Michael Scott
18. Couples - Marion Cuddy
19. Supervision - Stirling Moorey
