ABSTRACT
Cognitive behaviour therapy focuses on the patterns of the client's thinking. Therapy begins by explaining to the client the therapeutic style of cognitive behaviour therapy as being one of collaborative empiricism. Collaborative empiricism is characterised by the therapist and client both taking active roles in the therapy and working in conjunction with each other to solve the problem. The structure of the sessions mirrors the approach to dealing with the client's depression. The typical session will consist of the following: agenda-setting, reviewing the homework from the previous session, week's task, homework-setting, reviewing the session and feedback, using cognitive behaviour therapy with groups, and using cognitive behaviour therapy with inpatients. As the client improves, the sessions can become longer and their expectations can increase. Therefore, by the time the client is ready for discharge, therapist will hopefully be at the same sort of session length and frequency as he would be if all the therapy had been done as out-patient sessions.
