Overview
- Practical, state-of-the-art clinical guidance on best practices in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
- Thoroughly outlines the growing evidence base supporting the efficacy of CBT in treating a wide range of psychiatric disorders
- Offers a take away “tool box” of CBT strategies and techniques
- Written by experts at Harvard Medical School
Part of the book series: Current Clinical Psychiatry (CCPSY)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has a growing evidence base that supports its efficacy in treating a wide range of psychiatric disorders and has been adapted for use with more complicated patient populations and for different stages of psychiatric illness. As the first Massachusetts General Hospital-branded text on the subject, this is a cutting-edge tool that is unlike any current book on CBT. The authors for this handbook are among the world’s foremost experts in their specialty area and are actively engaged in dynamic research evaluating the efficacy of CBT as well as identifying mechanisms of action for this treatment. This title provides in-depth coverage of the historical background of the development of CBT, a comprehensive review of relevant outcomes data, a survey of mechanisms by which CBT exerts its effect, and, most importantly, a take away “tool box” of CBT strategies and techniques that can be immediately implemented in clinicians’ practices.
The Massachussetts General Hospital Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy reaches and improves the clinical practices of a broad base of front line mental health practitioners, including psychiatrists and therapists.
Reviews
“This book presents a view of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) meant to span the entire spectrum of knowledge and experience in the field. … the book is likely to be useful to anyone interested in understanding the practice of CBT or learning its processes, such as students of psychology, psychiatry, social work, or case management. … This is a book worth keeping, as it seems likely owners will refer to it often, even as their expertise grows over time.” (Steven T. Herron, Doody’s Book Reviews, March, 2016)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Timothy J. Petersen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Psychiatry
101 Merrimac Street
10th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
USA
Susan Sprich, PhD
Clinical Director, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Psychiatry
One Bowdoin Square
7th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
USA
Sabine Wilhelm, PhD
Chief of Psychology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, OCD and Related Disorders Program, MGH
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Richard B. Simches Research Center
185 Cambridge Street
Boston, MA 02114
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Editors: Timothy J. Petersen, Susan E. Sprich, Sabine Wilhelm
Series Title: Current Clinical Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2605-3
Publisher: Humana New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2605-3Published: 29 September 2015
Series ISSN: 2626-241X
Series E-ISSN: 2626-2398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 327
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Primary Care Medicine, Psychiatry, General Practice / Family Medicine, Psychotherapy