ABSTRACT
The popularity of using narrative, metaphor and building solutions in CBT has increased in recent years. Narrative CBT, part of the third wave of cognitive therapies, recognises the importance of helping to build new ideas and practices in order to create change, examining a person’s multiple and evolving narratives and their behaviour as intrinsically meaningful.
In Narrative CBT, John Rhodes presents the features of NCBT in thirty key points. The first fifteen summarise how the theory of narrative can clarify difficulties with emotions, motives and interactions and address how rebuilding confidence and trust is crucial for change to be achieved. In the second half of the book, case conceptualisation and the techniques of NCBT are explained and illustrated. Narrative, solution-orientated and CBT techniques are integrated and specific NCBT approaches for trauma, depression and OCD are highlighted.
Ideal for clinical and counselling psychologists, both established and in training, psychotherapists and all professionals carrying out therapy in the field of mental health, this book clearly and accessibly presents the techniques and key concepts of Narrative CBT.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|71 pages
The Distinctive Theoretical Features of Narrative CBT
chapter 1|6 pages
Introduction to NCBT
chapter 2|5 pages
Narrative
chapter 3|4 pages
Metaphors
chapter 4|4 pages
Emotions and Feelings
chapter 5|3 pages
Motivations: their loss and reconstruction
chapter 6|7 pages
Understanding behavior
chapter 7|3 pages
The network of meaning
chapter 8|6 pages
The dispositional self
chapter 9|3 pages
The foundation of trust
chapter 10|4 pages
Understanding the presentation of problems
chapter 11|4 pages
How does therapy create change?
chapter 12|3 pages
How narrative might help
chapter 13|3 pages
Learning from the client and building trust
chapter 14|4 pages
The theory of problem patterns, exceptions and goals
chapter 15|3 pages
Integrating theory and practice
part 2|74 pages
The Distinctive Practical Features of Narrative CBT