Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Foundations and Frameworks Series: A Clear Guide to Thoughts, Emotions, Behaviors, and the Science of Lasting Change
Language: English
Published by PublishDrive, 2026
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- Title
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Foundations and Frameworks Series: A Clear Guide to Thoughts, Emotions, Behaviors, and the Science of Lasting Change
- Author
- Emerson, Clara
- Publisher
- PublishDrive
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798900421780
Cognitive behavioral therapy works by treating your thoughts as claims you can check rather than facts you have to accept. This guide explains the method from the ground up and shows you how to use it on yourself.
Two people open the same five-word email from their manager. One spends the afternoon replaying every recent mistake and mentally drafting a resignation. The other assumes it is about vacation dates and goes back to work. Everything in CBT follows from that gap between what happens and the story a mind tells about what happens.
This book traces the full structure of that idea, starting with a single moment of thought and finishing with an honest account of what the treatment can and can't do.
Ten chapters, in the order the method builds:
- The cognitive model slowed down to a single moment, so you can see where a thought, a feeling, and an action actually connect, and which part of the loop is easiest to interrupt
- Origins in Pavlov, Skinner, Aaron Beck's depression research, and Albert Ellis's ABC model
- The three layers of thinking: fast automatic thoughts, the rules and assumptions underneath them, and the core beliefs sitting at the bottom
- Cognitive distortions named and catalogued, including mind reading, catastrophizing, and selective abstraction
- How a therapist assesses a problem and builds a plan, using the intake interview, the PHQ-9 and GAD-7, functional analysis, and an individualized conceptualization diagram
- Thought records, Socratic questioning, and the downward arrow technique
- Behavioral activation, graded exposure and fear hierarchies, response prevention for OCD, and experiments that test a specific prediction against what actually happens
- The physiology of panic, plus breathing retraining, progressive muscle relaxation, and distress tolerance for the moments when thinking your way out is not available
- Protocols adapted for depression, panic disorder, social anxiety, PTSD, insomnia, chronic pain, and substance use
- Third-wave methods including mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, ACT, DBT, Schema Therapy, and Compassion-Focused Therapy
Written for:
- Psychology and counseling students who need the frameworks laid out clearly
- Anyone in treatment who wants to understand what their therapist is doing and why
- Self-taught readers working on their own worry, low mood, or avoidance
A timeline lays out how the field developed, starting with Pavlov's dogs and ending with digital programs. A glossary defines the main terms in plain language. Worked answers follow the discussion questions at the end of each chapter, and a reference list points to the primary research behind the claims.
You finish with a clear picture of how your own thinking produces your reactions, and a set of skills that stay with you long after the reading stops.
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