ABSTRACT
The emergence and increasingly wide acceptance of cognitively based treat-ments are major developments in behavior therapy. In recent years there has been the formation of a new journal, Cognitive Therapy and Research, and a special interest group within the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy devoted to cognitive-behavioral therapy (Dowd, 1978), as well as the appearance of several major books in the area (Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery, 1979; Kendall & Hollon, 1979, 1981; Mahoney, 1974; Meichenbaum, 1977).
