A Therapist’s Manual for Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Groups

✍ Scribed by Lawrence I. Sank, Carolyn S. Shaffer (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

One of the great advantages of rational-emotive therapy (RET) and cog­ nitive behavior therapy (CBT) is that they frequently employ psycho­ educational methods-including bibliotherapy, workshops, lectures, courses, recordings, and films. I created RET at the beginning of 1955 after I had abandoned the practice of psychoanalysis because I found it to be highly inefficient and philosophically superficial. Being almost addicted to one-to-one therapy as a result of my analytic training and experience, I at first did RET only with individual clients and found this pioneering form of CBT considerably more effective than the other ther­ apies with which I had experimented. By 1957, however, I realized that RET could be taught to large num­ bers of persons through self-help books and articles and that RET -ori­ ented writings could not only prove valuable to the general public but that they could also be successfully employed to hasten and intensify the therapy of my individual clients. I therefore wrote a number of RET self­ help books-especially How to Live with a Neurotic (1957), Sex without Guilt (1958), A New Guide to Rational Living (with Robert A. Harper; original edition, 1961), and A Guide to Successful Marriage (with Robert A. Harper, 1961).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Coping Skills Training and Cognitive Behavior Therapy....Pages 9-23
The Screening Procedure....Pages 25-40
The Relaxation Module — Session 1....Pages 41-48
The Relaxation Module — Session 2....Pages 49-61
The Cognitive Restructuring Module — Session 3....Pages 63-76
Enhancing Cognitive Restructuring Skills — Session 4....Pages 77-89
Enhancing Cognitive Restructuring Skills — Session 5....Pages 91-97
Enhancing Cognitive Restructuring Skills — Session 6....Pages 99-105
Individual Session/Midway Evaluation — Session 7....Pages 107-111
The Assertion-Training Module — Session 8....Pages 113-123
The Assertion-Training Module — Session 9....Pages 125-132
The Assertion-Training Module — Session 10....Pages 133-140
The Assertion-Training Module — Session 11....Pages 141-147
The Problem-Solving Module — Session 12....Pages 149-156
The Problem-Solving Module — Session 13....Pages 157-164
Closing Sessions — Session 14....Pages 165-170
Closing Sessions — Session 15....Pages 171-176
Booster Sessions — Six-Month Follow-up Session....Pages 177-179
Back Matter....Pages 181-269

✦ Subjects

Clinical Psychology; Psychiatry