ABSTRACT
Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) uses a terminology that may be unfamiliar to many readers. CBASP is a theoretical system of treatment that is fully operationalized in acquisition learning-performance terms. When the treatment data are used to test a dependence relationship between learning and the outcome, the requirements for a psychological experiment will have been met. CBASP practitioners obtain information about the patient's Significant others (SO) in order to understand the interpersonal-emotional history of patients. CBASP assumes that chronic depression is a lifetime disorder similar to diabetes and hypertension. With the foreknowledge of the valence of the hot spot, practitioners may stop and administer an Interpersonal Discrimination Exercise (IDE). Contingent Personal Responsivity (CPR) offers a vehicle to shape up the behavior of pre-therapy patients. The implicated theme then becomes the material used to construct one transference hypothesis (TH) which postulates what the patient likely expects entering the therapeutic relationship.
