Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (GCBT) and guided self-help widen the availability of evidence-based treatment for common mental health disorders. This volume provides GCBT protocols for common disorders as well as session-by-session teaching materials and self-help survival manuals covering: Depression Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Social Phobia Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Generalised Anxiety Disorder The specifics of selecting and engaging clients in GCBT are first addressed and general group therapeutic skills are detailed. Transcripts of sessions show how group processes can be utilised to enhance outcome. Simply Effective Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy adds to the armamentarium of tools for low intensity intervention and complements the high intensity individual approach of the companion volume Simply Effective Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. It will prove essential reading for all professionals using CBT with groups. Online resources: The appendices of this book provide self-help manuals, questionnaires and worksheets that can be downloaded free of charge to purchasers of the print version. Please visit the website www.routledgementalhealth.com/9780415573412 to find out more about this facility.
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is distinguishable from its psychotherapy
forebears by its educational emphasis. However, for the most part CBT clients
have undergone an individual rather a group intervention. The reasons for this
are ...
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Shakina, a writer from New York thought she had cleverly hidden her desire until it began to interfere with her relationships.
Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective tell us about the nature of language and communication? Drawing on a range of disciplines including cognitive science, linguistics, anthropology and evolutionary biology, Speaking Our Minds explains how language evolved and why we are the only species to communicate in this way. Written by a rising star in the field, this groundbreaking book is required reading for anyone interested in understanding the origins and evolution of human communication and language.
The ability comes so naturally that we forget what a miracle it is” (p. 1). Like many
before him, Pinker goes on to emphasize that a fundamental and crucial
component of this expressive power is our capacity to combine together different
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