Bøker av Aaron T. Beck

This widely used practitioner resource and training tool is the definitive work on understanding and treating personality disorders from a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) perspective. The prominent editors and contributors explain the nature of personality disorders and why they are so challenging to treat. Chapters addressing 12 specific disorders are organized around vivid, instructive clinical examples. The book provides up-to-date scientific knowledge about each disorder and describes effective strategies for differential diagnosis, case conceptualization, implementing individualized CBT interventions, and overcoming roadblocks.New to This Edition*Incorporates cutting-edge clinical approaches and research; expands the cognitive theory of personality disorder.*Chapters on neural mechanisms, cultural diversity issues, and depressive personality disorder.*Chapters on co-occurring disorders and management of clinical challenges.*Disorder-specific chapters now include sections on key treatment goals, progress and termination, and clinician self-care.*Discusses DSM-5 concepts and diagnostic criteria.*Reviews advances in assessing personality beliefs.

From Aaron T. Beck and colleagues, this is the definitive work on the cognitive model of schizophrenia and its treatment. The volume integrates cognitive-behavioral and biological knowledge into a comprehensive conceptual framework. It examines the origins, development, and maintenance of key symptom areas: delusions, hallucinations, negative symptoms, and formal thought disorder. Treatment chapters then offer concrete guidance for addressing each type of symptom, complete with case examples and session outlines. Anyone who treats or studies serious mental illness will find a new level of understanding together with theoretically and empirically grounded clinical techniques.

This volume presents a comprehensive statement of cognitive theory and maps the dynamic evolution of cognitive therapy into a multidimensional approach applicable to an impressive range of problems.