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Since its development in the 1960s as a structured, short-term psychotherapy for depression, cognitive therapy has come of age. Today the approach is successfully applied in the treatment of a broad range of psychological disorders, an evolution reflected in the myriad titles now available. Regardless of the disorder, all these applications are based on core, underlying principles, which are clearly articulated in this volume. Providing readers with a solid foundation for practice, Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond delineates the fundamental building blocks of cognitive conceptualization and treatment.
Written in a clear, step-by-step style, this text helps therapists sharpen their conceptualization skills, plan more effective treatment, expand their repertoire of techniques, and trouble-shoot difficulties. Throughout the volume, the author offers clinical examples and transcripts drawn from one patient's treatment to illuminate the narrative and illustrate cognitive therapy in action. Introductory chapters describe how to conceptualize clients according to the cognitive model, plan and conduct the first session, identify initial problems and goals, and structure therapy within and across sessions. Then the basic steps for conducting cognitive therapy are presented, with specific instruction on how to identify, evaluate, and respond to a client's automatic thoughts. Effective strategies for modifying underlying assumptions and core beliefs are also explicated. Methods for increasing homework compliance, preparing for termination, and preventing relapse are laid out. Even experienced cognitive therapists will find new strategies and insights in chapters on planning treatment, diagnosing problems, using imagery, and bringing about behavioral change. In addition to numerous practical suggestions, this volume features a variety of sample patient worksheets and appendices that detail resource materials and reading lists for both the practitioner and the client. A final chapter offers guidance in progressing as a cognitive therapist. An important resource for any therapist's shelf, Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond is necessary reading for the practitioner or student new to cognitive therapy who wants to learn about this tested approach, and for the clinician already practicing cognitive therapy who wants to learn the cutting-edge strategies of conceptualization and treatment. |
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| 11-22-08 | 4 | (NA) |
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If you are into self discovery, therapy, and for thinkers, I got these recommendations from another writer, I read them and highly enjoyed them. These two books are very easy to comprehend, and they are one of a kind. Check it out RUMI & SELF PSYCHOLOGY (PSYCHOLOGY OF TRANQUILITY) and SARA'S THERAY: THE WAY TO PURITY (A SESSION BY SESSION TALK OF AN ACTUAL THERAPY PROCESS OF SELF GROWTH).
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| 09-29-08 | 4 | (NA) |
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Cognitive Therapy is written for the psychologist but it's an interesting and thoughtful approach to a topic (mental health) that can be read by anyone trying to get an understanding of their own processes.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-11-24 01:39:39 EST)
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| 06-30-08 | 4 | (NA) |
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This book is written with concrete examples of a very obvious cognitive case. In practice things are much more difficult or less approachable in cognitive terms. Still good to start getting a good idea about CBT.
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| 06-13-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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I purchased this book as a precursor to my, just getting started, undergraduate education in Psychology. This book provided me with a means to both understand cognitive therapy and its application. In fact, I do not think it gets any more rudimentary then this, but with that said, it offers practical information beyond just the basics. The book is gracefully easy to read and will keep you interested and actively challenges you to participate, using yourself as a focus to understanding the application of therapy, by asking you to challenge your own core and intermediate beliefs and automatic thoughts.
While I'm sure cognitive therapy could be far more complex, if one sought to uncover its deepest understanding, this book offers a very practical guide for even the experts! Maybe I'm not qualified to say that, but it was a thought that crossed my mind numerous times while reading. "If I can understand this, without much training or practical experience, an expert on the subject matter could easily use it to guide and enhance their own application of cognitive therapy." Anyway, if you are looking for something that is both basic and offers depth and practical use for cognitive therapy, I don't think you're going to find anything much better than this. It is a fantastic book, and I plan on re-reading it numerous times throughout my undergraduate studies and into graduate school. It will no doubt, become a valuable asset in honing my skills and knowledge of psychology. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-30 00:52:01 EST)
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| 03-22-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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As a working adult, finishing my second Master's in Clinical Psych...and having NEVER acquired the art of speaking in psycho babble, I can say that Beck writes in PLAIN, UNDERSTANDABLE ENGLISH (gee, that's a novel idea!!!!). The older I get, the LESS impressed I become with academia and the more desirous I become of those who are able to communicate complex truth's in understandable fashion.
Do yourself a favor...buy the dang book! (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-14 03:12:54 EST)
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| 09-25-07 | 5 | 2\3 |
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One of my all time favorites. I'm not an M.D., Psychologist or even a very smart person, but the lessons in this book about self-evaluation and rational observation are crucial for all people. True it's geared to teach the very basics of Cognitive Therapy in a Clinical setting; I must say its applications are nearly endless. Take me for example. With this book under my belt I feel as if I've been given years of therapy in only a few hundred pages. I'm not kidding you. Not only that but I can usually always put my friends' fears, anxieties and whining to rest simply by mimicking the scenarios found within this wonderful text. Beck is a genius, his daughter is his disciple. Are you all about observing your life in a more rational fashion thereby alleviating your negative reactions to what you believe to be "not the end of the world" problems? Or do you need help counseling your needy friends? All I have to say is Enjoy. I read it at least once every year.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-03-23 03:11:14 EST)
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| 05-13-07 | 4 | 2\2 |
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This book teaches the nuts and bolts of Cognitive Therapy. I first read this book as part of a graduate course on cognitive-behavioral therapy and have been using it as a reference book and an occasional refresher ever since. The book covers the most important structural and content components of cognitive therapy. It is didactic in format and interspersed with client/therapist dialogue illustrating various techniques and problem situations as well as the phases of therapy. This book is proof that Judith Beck is both a talented teacher and practitioner of cognitive therapy.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-09-26 03:19:46 EST)
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| 03-21-07 | 4 | 1\1 |
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This book was useful and had many good resource tools in it for use in sessions. It was basic and I am next reading the challenging problems in therapy book by the same author. I believe that will help with those clients that are not so receptive to change and counseling.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-09-01 22:40:10 EST)
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| 01-11-07 | 5 | 0\8 |
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The book came in a timely manner and arrived in new condition exactly as I ordered it. Very pleased.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-09-01 22:40:10 EST)
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| 11-11-06 | 5 | (NA) |
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The book is easy to follow. Cognitive therapy seems like a good way to go, if you like things simple and organized.
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| 11-10-06 | 5 | 1\1 |
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This text has two clear applications. First, it is a very good summary of techniques for the clinician, with multiple examples of tools available to conduct and reinforce CBT sessions and to maintain close patient involvement with accelerated self-management over time. Second, for intelligent, well informed patients (of well-informed family and friends) it can serve as design for some very useful self-management tools (or, for family / friends, a way to develop support tools). While I would not recommend this book for a lot of patients, there are certainly those who are motivated and will quickly adapt much of what Beck covers to supplement sessions with their therapist.
One of the key aspects to optimal CBT is to address automatic negative thoughts early, and to work on ways to manage them and replace them with positive automatic thoughts. Judith Beck outlines this process and clarifies the stages of a typical therapy course in a manner that lays a foundation and builds of the work to be completed. Perhaps, for the clinician, the greatest value lies deeper in the book where several approaches are discussed about techniques to consider when the earlier approaches have failed or yielded questionable gains. Overall, an excellent resource for the basics of CBT. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-01-12 03:54:37 EST)
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| 09-12-06 | 5 | 2\2 |
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This is an excellent book for both clients and therapists. It presents cognitive therapy concepts without jargon in a straightforward and practical manner.
This text is well-organized and covers all the most important points of cognitive therapy. It also does go well beyond the basics and makes a useful reference book. I have read a lot of books on cognitive therapy and this is my favorite. It is dense, yet very readable without a lot of unnecessary detail. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-11-11 04:10:27 EST)
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| 08-11-06 | 5 | 1\1 |
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I am a patient that got more help from reading part of this book than I have from 11 years of therapy
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| 07-29-06 | 4 | (NA) |
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Excellent source of primary information on the techniques involving cognitive therapy.
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| 02-21-06 | 5 | 1\1 |
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Excellent book to initiate yourself to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. The author is Judith Beck, the daughter of Aaron Beck (the creator of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy!). It is easy to read and follow, and she gives great examples!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-29 03:42:11 EST)
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| 10-10-05 | 5 | 4\4 |
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Dr. Beck has done a great job with this text. She discusses everything from structuring the first session to identifying, evaluating, and responding to feelings, thoughts, and beliefs to various assignments and treatment planning. She even addresses relapse prevention and how to tackle various problems in therapy. This book is a great resource, particularly for those new to cognitive therapy. It is also useful, however, as a refresher for those of us who have been practicing awhile.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 11:33:13 EST)
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| 08-25-05 | 5 | 5\5 |
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Hundreds of books about CBT exists, this one is unique.
A top reference in the field. Probably one of the best book available on the subject, and most than probably a major one. Aaron Beck daughter have write a superb comprehensive, clear,and practical CBT manual. In my opinion, this is one of "THE" book everybody can recommand without a slightest hesitation. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 11:33:13 EST)
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| 12-26-04 | 5 | 10\10 |
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As a therapist-in-training, I was looking for a resource that could take me beyond the basics of microskills interviewing. This book has proven to be a good starting point for those who wish to develop their therapy style toward the direction of the cognitive behavior therapy model.
Judith Beck's work is dense without being to jargon-ridden; cogent and insightful it walks the reader step-by-step toward a deeper understanding of the cogitive thearpy model of psychotherapy and case conceptualization. Interspersed throughout are case vignettes to highlight the intended point. The book is a tad pricey to be sure, but needful before embarking on other works by the likes of Robert Leahy, Ph.D., who has a tremendous operational grasp of CBT and has written many fine books on the subject. But first grasp the basics...then you can go "beyond." (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 11:33:13 EST)
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| 08-21-04 | 5 | 13\14 |
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This is truly a superb introductory book to cognitive therapy. I would highly recommend novice counselors, as well as those experienced counselors looking to expand their clinical skills. Judith Beck does an excellent job of walking the reader through the cognitive therapy process. Overall, the book is easy to follow and offers readers practical strategies, as well as the philosophical background to cognitive therapy. I believe this book is already on the shelves of many therapists and educators.
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| 04-25-03 | 5 | 13\15 |
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Cognitive therapy/cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is exploding in application to many clinical populations, however there is a need for a basic introduction to its principles. So far, this is the best text for this purpose. I use it in my class of doctoral clinical psychology students, and then have them pick one of the many other population-specific CBT texts. They find Beck to be easy reading, and it helps to talk about the simple cases described in Beck before moving to more complex cases.
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| 06-13-02 | 5 | 19\21 |
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This is an excellent introductory source for anyone who is interested in learning Cognitive Therapy. I am a Master's level Professional Counselor in training, and therefore, needed to learn the basics of Cognitive Therapy. The book progresses from the basics of Cognitive Therapy to using advanced techniques. One of the greatest challenges for a Cognitive Therapist is to "teach" the client how to practice Cogntive techniques on their own. Dr. beck does a great job of explaining the rationale, as well as ways to empower the client to be their own therapist.
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| 12-17-01 | 5 | 59\64 |
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I was introduced to cognitive therapy by a therapist
who recommended David Burns's popular "Feeling Good Handbook". That is certainly a good book to start with, but I wanted to learn more so I went to a bookstore and found this book by Judith Beck. It is actually a textbook for therapists and is not addressed to patients at all. Nevertheless I have found it very useful because it is much more structured than Burns's books. I particularly found her schema of automatic thoughts (also found in Burns), intermediate beliefs and core beliefs (the latter two not found in Burns) to be very helpful. My personal conclusion is that Burns's less disciplined approach is probably helpful for simpler kinds of problems, whereas Beck's formalism is going to be more relevant once you discover that you want or need to get down below the surface. The strength of Burns's book is he provides lots of exercises. Since Beck's book is a text for the therapist, it does not have exercises for the patient reading it as self help. If you are reasonably dedicated you can (and must) create your own exercises. If you think you can make that bridge from text to self help, then this may be a good book for you. [ By the way, I think that Burns's discussion of (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 11:33:13 EST)
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| 09-30-01 | 2 | 16\140 |
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This is an excellent text on cognitive therapy. And it
should be good reading for the layman or laywoman as well as mental health professionals. Unfortunately, the subject matter needs serious surgery. When we try to smear a "rational" reference point over a reference point, we are still left with the whole problem. A reference point! People with mental problems (as if there is anyone without "mental problems"), have too many reference points. As the author explains to us, our pain is caused by "cognitive distortions." That we lost our job or our spouse is highly undesirable. But it is not "terrible." We can still go on. Life is still worth living. And so on. This is substituting a sandwich full of nails for a sandwich full of paste. We are still left with too many sandwiches and way too much paste. His Holiness the Dali Lama is the head of the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition of Gelukpa Buddhism. In these teachings, it is stated that one did not lose either a job or our spouse. These are just labels! And they are cognitive distortions within themselves. In the former case, we were informed that we would no longer be coming to a place and receiving money. In the latter case, someone stopped breathing. By taking out our Label Maker and creating new and apparently more 'rational' labels, we are saying that words are real. And this is the entire problem with the neurotic and the psychotic (not including the fact that someone labeled them a "neurotic" or a "psychotic"). The cure is seeing through all labels. Then we can relax and feel friendly in a harshly defined universe. There is not one interpretation that we can make of anything that can't be shown as invalid when we view it from another angle. So why interpret phenemona as anything unless it serves a utilitarian purpose? (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 11:33:13 EST)
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| 08-20-01 | 4 | 19\20 |
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Judy Beck's Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond is an excellent text for graduate students and clinicians beginning to learn Aaron T. Beck's system of cognitive therapy. It is highly readable and includes lots of examples of dialogue between therapist and client. J. Beck also addresses common problems that arise in cognitive therapy, such as failure to do homework and suicidality. In addition, Dr. Beck includes a number of valuable forms to use in cognitive therapy. I've been using this book for practicum students for several years now and am very pleased with the results.
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| 04-09-01 | 5 | 9\10 |
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I am a clinical psychology PhD student and a practicing psychotherapist who receives supervision in cognitive therapy. This book really offers practical and usefull knowledge about cognitive therapy and it is a good practicing guide. The book is easily understood and also it covers all nedded and required knowledge about cognitive psychotherapy. Despite it is a beginner book, it has value for experienced cognitive therapists too. This book is so usefull for cognitive psychotherapy students, the clinicians who want to learn about cognitive therapy and the experienced therapists who need a basic handbook of cognitive therapy.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-23 10:03:01 EST)
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| 07-16-00 | 5 | 26\28 |
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When I first heard Judith Beck had written this book I expected she was simply riding her fathers coat tails. Her father Aaron Beck is often considered the father of cognitive therapy. Judy has established herself however as an important contributer to this field in her own right. This book is now required reading for begining cognitive therapists going to the Beck Institute for training. It covers all the important points in doing cognitive therapy with a range of disorders and is the logical place to start for the neophyte therapist and a good place to return for the experienced therapist to clarify what needs to be done if you are going to call it cognitive therapy.
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| 06-23-98 | 5 | 16\17 |
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This is a superb book for therapists - experienced or novice - on the how-tos of doing cognitive therapy. It steps the reader through the basics, covers potential problems (from both client and therapist perspectives), provides advice on treatment planning and lists references for additional information on this effective form of therapy.
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| 12-21-96 | 5 | 29\30 |
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A concise and comprehensive book that provides a basic understanding of cognitive therapy
written by one of the leading cognitive therapists. Written with the beginner in mind, it is
the only book I have found that provides specific instructions in actually DOING cognitive therapy
with clients. Beck takes the reader from the initial session, through case conceptualization, specific
interventions, to terminitation. There is even a section on trouble-shooting that is especially
useful for students who may have little experience. One of the greatest benefits of the book is that it is
written like a manual that beginners can use as a foundation for developing their own style of
therapy. If you are a graduate student in a clinical training program, you should have this book whether
you conduct cognitive therapy or not.
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