ABSTRACT
Even the title ‘cognitive behavioural therapy’ signals that we are dealing with a hybrid, or perhaps more accurately a collection of hybrids. There are still those who regard themselves as behaviour therapists and who have adhered strictly to the principles of learning theory in devising techniques for therapeutic intervention or the training of socially acceptable behaviours and skills. At the other extreme, there are cognitive therapists who base their interventions almost entirely on techniques to modify the client’s patterns of thinking.
