Cognitive Behavior Therapy - Basics and Beyond - Guilford Press (2020)

2020·4.83 MB·English

by  Judith S. Beck

COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY
Also by Judith S. Beck
Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems:
What to Do When the Basics Don’t Work
COGNITIVE
B E H AV I O R
T H E R A P Y
BASICS AND BEYOND
THIRD EDITION
Judith S. Beck
Foreword by Aaron T. Beck
THE GUILFORD PRESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Beck, Judith S., author.
Title: Cognitive behavior therapy : basics and beyond / Judith S. Beck.
Description: Third edition. | New York : The Guilford Press, [2021] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020006172 | ISBN 9781462544196 (cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: Cognitive therapy.
Classification: LCC RC489.C63 B43 2021 | DDC 616.89/1425—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006172
To my father, Aaron T. Beck,
and the wonderful staff of
the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Judith S. Beck, PhD, is President of the Beck Institute for Cognitive
Behavior Therapy (www.beckinstitute.org), a nonprofit organization that
provides state-of-the-art training and certification in CBT to individu-
als and organizations, offers online courses on a variety of CBT topics,
conducts research, and serves as a leading global resource in CBT. She
is also Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University
of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Beck has written
over 100 articles and chapters as well as several books for professionals
and general readers, including Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Prob-
lems: What to Do When the Basics Don’t Work. She has made hundreds
of presentations around the world on topics related to CBT, is codevel-
oper of the Beck Youth Inventories and the Personality Belief Ques-
tionnaire, and has won numerous awards for her contributions to the
field. She also continues to treat clients at the Beck Institute’s in-house
clinic in suburban Philadelphia.
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FOREWORD
I am delighted that this third edition of Cognitive Behavior Therapy:
Basics and Beyond is being published. The field of cognitive behav-
ior therapy (CBT) has grown by leaps and bounds in the past decade
alone. One factor that makes this new edition so valuable is its adapta-
tion of techniques from a wide variety of psychotherapies into treat-
ment, in the context of the cognitive model. You’ll find important
interventions from acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical
behavior therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and others.
Equally important, though, is its emphasis on a recovery or strengths-
based orientation as part of the foundation of CBT. A single depressed
client is followed throughout the book, along with opportunities to
stream the videos of therapy sessions and download worksheets. A
second, more complex client is also portrayed throughout the book to
illustrate variations of treatment when difficulties arise.
When I first developed cognitive therapy in the 1960s and 1970s,
I focused the conceptualization and treatment of individuals on their
problems, negative cognitions, and dysfunctional coping strategies.
By the mid-1980s, I could claim that cognitive therapy had attained
the status of a “system of psychotherapy.” It consisted of (1) a theory
of personality and psychopathology with solid empirical findings to
support its basic postulates; (2) a model of psychotherapy with sets of
principles and strategies that blended with the theory of psychopathol-
ogy; and (3) solid empirical findings based on clinical outcome studies
to support the efficacy of this approach.
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