ABSTRACT

Trial-Based Cognitive Therapy (TBCT) is a new model of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) that organizes standard cognitive and behavioural techniques in a step-by-step fashion, making CBT more easily mastered by the new therapist, more easily understood by the patients, and simpler to be implemented, whilst still maintaining flexibility and CBT’s recognized effectiveness.

Dividing thirty key features into two parts: ‘Theory and Practice’, this concise book explores the principles of TBCT, explains the techniques developed throughout TBCT therapy to change dysfunctional cognitions, and provides a clear guide to the distinctive characteristics of TBCT.

Trial-Based Cognitive Therapy will be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, therapists, counsellors and other professionals working in the field of mental health, plus those wanting to learn CBT.

Trial-Based Cognitive Therapy is part of the Distinctive Features series, which asks leading practitioners and theorists of the main CBT therapies to highlight the main features of their particular developing approach. The series as a whole will be essential reading for psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists of all orientations.

chapter

Introduction

part 1|52 pages

The Distinctive Theoretical Features of TBCT

chapter 7|4 pages

Resolving ambivalence

chapter 12|2 pages

Metacognitive awareness

chapter 13|1 pages

TBCT and social anxiety disorder

chapter 14|2 pages

TBCT and post-traumatic stress disorder

part 2|91 pages

The Distinctive Practical Features of TBCT

chapter 17|6 pages

Assessing dysfunctional cognitions

chapter 18|4 pages

Introducing the CD-Quest

chapter 22|2 pages

Case conceptualization diagram, level 2

chapter 25|4 pages

Case conceptualization diagram: level 3

chapter 28|2 pages

Using Trial I in group settings

chapter 30|4 pages

Relaxation and the sailboat metaphor