ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on the assumption that distinguishing between 'Cognitive Behaviour Therapy' (CBT) and 'using cognitive-behavioural communication skills' is helpful in the dissemination of cognitive behavioural communication skills to a wider audience. Whilst the 'vicious cycle' concept is somewhat 'rough and ready' theoretically, it operates as a helpful heuristic for starting CBT. In the therapy field, CBT has been unusually pragmatic in both its theory and practice. Socratic questioning is the most frequently used verbal strategy to implement guided discovery, hence the author use the term Guided Discovery through Socratic Dialogue (GD/SD) to describe this keynote CBT strategy. The chapter focuses on examples of CB communication skills to enhance cognitive, behavioural and emotional functioning. Classic behavioural interventions in depression include activity scheduling and behavioural activation. Researchers in the Beckian tradition of CBT have contributed much to the understanding of the cognitive 'architecture' that is involved in the precipitation and maintenance of emotional problems.
