Cognitive Behavioural Chairwork: Distinctive Features (CBT Distinctive Features)

✍ Scribed by Matthew Pugh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cognitive Behavioural Chairwork: Distinctive Features provides a practical, accessible, and concise introduction to both the theory and practice of chairwork, one of the most powerful and exciting methods of intervention in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and is the first book to synthesise its many applications in CBT and allied therapies.

Part of the popular 'CBT Distinctive Features' series, this book contains a wealth of effective experiential procedures for working with automatic thoughts, emotions, behaviours, core beliefs, ambivalence, strengths, well-being, and cognitive processes such as worry and self-criticism. Readers will also learn how chairwork is applied in other areas, such as clinical supervision and associated psychotherapeutic approaches including compassion focused therapy, schema therapy, positive psychotherapy, and motivational interviewing. Techniques are presented in an easy-to-understand format and illustrated using clinical examples and therapy transcripts. The result is a comprehensive guide which demystifies chairwork and places it at the heart of CBT’s continued evolution.

Created for practising clinicians, researchers, and training therapists, Cognitive Behavioural Chairwork: Distinctive Features will appeal to both individuals who are new to chairwork and those who are familiar with its techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Part I THEORETICAL FEATURES OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL CHAIRWORK
1 A brief history of chairwork
2 Chairwork in cognitive and behavioural therapies
3 Forms of chairwork
4 Forms of facilitation
5 Forms of perspective-taking
6 Lights! Self-multiplicity (principle I)
7 Camera! Embodiment and personification (principle II)
8 Action! Dialogue (principle III)
9 Process skills
10 Mechanisms I – information processing
11 Mechanisms II – emotion
12 Mechanisms III – imagery
13 Mechanisms IV – retrieval competition
14 Mechanisms V – other processes
15 Evidence base
Part II PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL CHAIRWORK
16 Applying chairwork in CBT
17 Using chairwork to socialise clients to the cognitive-behavioural model and allied approaches
18 Using chairwork to address negative automatic thoughts
19 Using chairwork to address problematic emotions
20 Using chairwork to assess and modify behaviours
21 Using chairwork to address dysfunctional cognitive processes
22 Using chairwork to modify negative core beliefs
23 Using chairwork to develop and consolidate positive core beliefs
24 Using chairwork to resolve ambivalence and enhance motivation
25 Using chairwork to develop compassion for the self and others
26 Using chairwork to modify schema modes
27 Using chairwork in positive CBT
28 Using emotion-focused chairwork to augment CBT
29 Using chairwork in CBT supervision
30 Addressing common obstacles when using chairwork
References
Index