How to Become a More Effective CBT Therapist: Mastering Metacompetence in Clinical Practice - Softcover

Whittington, Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 111846835X ISBN 13: 9781118468357

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

How to Become a More Effective CBT Therapist explores effective ways for therapists to move beyond competence to “metacompetence”, remaining true to the core principles of CBT while adapting therapeutic techniques to address the everyday challenges of real-world clinical work. This innovative text explores how to:

• Work most effectively with fundamental therapeutic factors such as the working alliance and diversity;
• Tackle complexities such as co-morbidity, interpersonal dynamics and lack of progress in therapy;
• Adapt CBT when working with older people, individuals with long-term conditions (LTCs), intellectual disabilities, personality disorders and psychosis;
• Develop as a therapist through feedback, supervision, self-practice and training.

About this title

About the Author

Adrian Whittington is Director of Education and Training at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. A Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Adrian is passionate about enabling wider access to evidence-based psychological therapies. Adrian was a director of postgraduate training programmes in CBT before taking up his current role. He works clinically with people with anxiety disorders and depression, particularly following trauma, and teaches on the postgraduate CBT training programme at the University of Sussex, UK.

Nick Grey is Joint Clinical Director and Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT), South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners. He is actively involved in disseminating cognitive behavioural therapies, trying to ensure that the most effective treatments are applied in routine care. A BABCP-accredited practitioner, supervisor and trainer, Nick is also Honorary Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry and editor of A Casebook of Cognitive Therapy for Traumatic Stress Reactions (2009).

From the Back Cover

CBT has been shown to be effective in helping many people with a wide range of difficulties. A key strength is its empirical basis, and much effort has gone into training therapists to adhere closely to the specific treatment protocols used in research trials. However, real-world therapists need to make moment-to-moment decisions about the direction therapy should take with individual clients.

How to Become a More Effective CBT Therapist explores effective ways for therapists to move beyond competence to “metacompetence”, remaining true to the core principles of CBT while adapting therapeutic techniques to address the everyday challenges of real-world clinical work. This innovative text explores how to:

• Work most effectively with fundamental therapeutic factors such as the working alliance and diversity;
• Tackle complexities such as co-morbidity, interpersonal dynamics and lack of progress in therapy;
• Adapt CBT when working with older people, individuals with long-term conditions (LTCs), intellectual disabilities, personality disorders and psychosis;
• Develop as a therapist through feedback, supervision, self-practice and training.

Based firmly on foundations of the current evidence and richly illustrated with case studies and therapy transcripts, this practical guide will help therapists navigate complexities of clinical practice and develop as skilled practitioners of CBT.

From the Inside Flap

CBT has been shown to be effective in helping many people with a wide range of difficulties. A key strength is its empirical basis, and much effort has gone into training therapists to adhere closely to the specific treatment protocols used in research trials. However, real-world therapists need to make moment-to-moment decisions about the direction therapy should take with individual clients.

How to Become a More Effective CBT Therapist explores effective ways for therapists to move beyond competence to “metacompetence”, remaining true to the core principles of CBT while adapting therapeutic techniques to address the everyday challenges of real-world clinical work. This innovative text explores how to:

• Work most effectively with fundamental therapeutic factors such as the working alliance and diversity;
• Tackle complexities such as co-morbidity, interpersonal dynamics and lack of progress in therapy;
• Adapt CBT when working with older people, individuals with long-term conditions (LTCs), intellectual disabilities, personality disorders and psychosis;
• Develop as a therapist through feedback, supervision, self-practice and training.

Based firmly on foundations of the current evidence and richly illustrated with case studies and therapy transcripts, this practical guide will help therapists navigate complexities of clinical practice and develop as skilled practitioners of CBT.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 111846835X
• ISBN 13: 9781118468357
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336