ABSTRACT
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is the treatment of choice for most mental health problems. Each different problem is usually treated by a different model of CBT. Yet evidence tells us that the same processes are responsible for long term distress in us all. This handy manual draws on evidence and theory to provide the key principles to aid change and recovery.
The transdiagnostic approach is supported by a wealth of evidence that processes such as worry, emotion suppression, self-criticism and avoidance maintain distress across psychological disorders. Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) explains all of these processes as forms of ‘inflexible control’, and Method of Levels Therapy (MOL) helps people to let go of these habits. The principles and techniques of MOL are clearly and practically described for clinicians to offer a transdiagnostic CBT that is tailor-made to the goals of each client.
This novel volume will be essential reading for novice and experienced CBT therapists, as well as counsellors and psychotherapists. Its accessible explanation of Perceptual Control Theory and its application to real world problems also makes a useful resource for undergraduates, graduates and researchers in psychology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
part 1|58 pages
Theory
chapter 3|6 pages
The phenomenon of control: perception, comparison and action
chapter 4|4 pages
The control of perception: not the control of behaviour
chapter 5|4 pages
The negative feedback loop
chapter 6|2 pages
Basic causes of the loss of control
chapter 7|4 pages
Hierarchies of control: going up and down levels
chapter 8|6 pages
Conflict
chapter 9|4 pages
Reorganisation: a non-linear process of change
chapter 10|4 pages
Awareness and imagination
chapter 11|4 pages
Arbitrary (or inflexible) control maintains distress via conflict
chapter 13|2 pages
Interpersonal control
chapter 14|4 pages
Circular causality and model building
chapter 15|2 pages
It's all perception
part 2|74 pages
Practice