Cognitive Behaviour Therapy ─ A Guide for the Practising Clinician

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Guide for the Practising Clinician, Volume 2 brings the practising clinician up to date with recent developments in the continuously expanding field of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). As with the first volume, this book is a clinically orientated and techniques-focused CBT manual, dealing with specific clinical conditions, skilfully blending guiding theories, focused techniques and clinical flexibility.
With contributions from distinguished clinicians and researchers, a variety of specific disorders are examined, including:
• Social anxiety disorder, CBT for psychoses, preventing relapse in depression;• Posttraumatic stress disorder, health anxiety;• Body dysmorphic disorder, pathological gambling, medical illness.
These disorders are also discussed in the context of up-to-date processes and approaches, such as homework assignments, compassion-focused therapy and metacognitive-focused therapy. As such this book, along with the first volume, will be essential reading for all CBT practitioners, mental health professionals and students alike.

Gregoris Simos is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and also a cognitive behavioural clinician at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Simos, Preface. Pinto, Turkington, Kingdon, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychosis: Enhancing the Therapeutic Relationship to Improve the Quality of Life. Papageorgiou, CBT, Depressive Rumination and Metacognition. Barnhofer, Fennell, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Preventing Relapse in Depression. Blackmore, Heimberg, Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder. Rauch, Foa, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Taylor, Collimore, Asmundson, Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Health Anxiety. Neziroglu, Khemlani-Patel, Jacofsky, Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Symptoms, Models and Treatment Interventions. Morasco, Ledgerwood, Weinstock, Petry, Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Pathological Gambling. Kyrios, Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy in Medical Illness. Konstadinidis, Goga, Simos, Effective Socialization In CBT: The Collaborative Interviewing in Mathematical Analogy Technique (CLIMATE). Kazantzis, Daniel, Homework Assignments in Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Leahy, Resistance: An Emotional Schema Therapy Approach. Gilbert, Developing a Compassion Focused Approach in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.