Trial-Based Cognitive Therapy

<p><em>Trial-Based Cognitive Therapy</em> (TBCT) is a new model of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) that organizes standard cognitive and behavioural techniques in a step-by-step fashion making CBT more easily mastered by the new therapist more easily understood by the patients and simpler to be implemented whilst still maintaining flexibility and CBT’s recognized effectiveness.</p><p>Dividing thirty key features into two parts: ‘Theory and Practice’ this concise book explores the principles of TBCT explains the techniques developed throughout TBCT therapy to change dysfunctional cognitions and provides a clear guide to the distinctive characteristics of TBCT.</p><p><i>Trial-Based Cognitive Therapy </i>will be of interest to psychiatrists psychologists social workers therapists counsellors and other professionals working in the field of mental health plus those wanting to learn CBT.</p><p><i>Trial-Based Cognitive Therapy </i>is part of the <i>Distinctive Features </i>series which asks leading practitioners and theorists of the main CBT therapies to highlight the main features of their particular developing approach. The series as a whole will be essential reading for psychotherapists counsellors and psychologists of all orientations.</p>