Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy back issues from January 2000:
Introduction
Jan 01, 2000; ... Children are clearly society's greatest natural human resource. Their emotional health and psychological well-being merit considerable empirical and clinical attention. Beardslee and colleagues (1997) wrote "Depression in childhood and adolescence is a common, serious disorder often accompanied ...
The Prevention of Depression in At-Risk Adolescents: Current and Future Directions
Jan 01, 2000; ... Beardslee's (1990) innovative research on preventive intervention for youth depression will be introduced. Beardslee and colleagues have focused their work on families with parental affective disorder, with the goal of preventing the onset of disorder in nonsymptomatic early adolescents aged 8 ...
Ward, I'm Worried About the Beaver: Issues in Early Identification and Intervention With Children Experiencing Depression and Anxiety
Jan 01, 2000; ... Childhood anxiety and depression are commonplace yet often neglected problems. This article briefly summarizes information on the prevalence and developmental chronology of these disorders. Innovative intervention methods are presented and described. Finally, a section alerting readers to ...
Youth Exposure to Crime and Violence: Its Effects and Implications for Intervention
Jan 01, 2000; ... A growing proportion of urban youth are at high risk for exposure to extreme acts of crime or violence. This article reviews the literature on the relationship between exposure to crime and violence and the development of posttraumatic stress reactions, as well as current assessment methods ...
Systemic and Clinical Strategies for Preventing School Refusal Behavior in Youth
Jan 01, 2000; ... This article summarizes clinical aspects of school refusal behavior and school dropout as well as community, school, parent/family, social, personal, and academic success predictors of these problems. In addition, systemic strategies to prevent school refusal behavior and dropout are discussed ....
Treatment of Social Phobia in Adolescents: Cognitive Behavioral Programs Focused on Intervention and Prevention
Jan 01, 2000; ... Social phobia is an exaggerated fear of a variety of social and performance situations due to the concern that one may become embarrassed or humiliated in front of others. Such fear is considered "normal" to some degree, especially during the period of adolescence. However, for a significant ...
A Partial Component Analysis of Beck's Cognitive Therapy for the Treatment of General Anger
Jan 01, 2000; ... Eighty-six high-anger undergraduates were assigned to eight group sessions of Beck's full cognitive therapy (FCT) focusing on both cognitive and behavioral change, cognitive restructuring only (CRO) focusing only on cognitive change, or a no-treatment control. Analyses suggested treatments were ...
Self-Management Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Therapist-Guided Approach
Jan 01, 2000; ... Self-Management Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Therapist-Guided Approach Michael H. Langley. New York: Springer Publishing Company (www.springerpublishing.com). 1994,206 pp., $29.95 (hardcover). In his book Self-Management Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A ...
Clark, Beck, and Alford's State of the Theory Address
Jan 01, 2000; ... Clark, Beck, andAlford's State of the Theory Address Scientific Foundations of Cognitive Theory and Therapy of Depression David A. Clark, Aaron T. Beck, & Brad A. Alford. Chichester, UK: Wiley & Sons (www.wiley.com). 1999, 400 pp., $57.70 (hardcover). Few would disagree that ...
Covering the Bases
Jan 01, 2000; ... Covering the Bases Cognitive Therapy: Basic Principles and Applications Robert L. Leahy. Northvale, NJ: Aronson (www.aronson). 1996, 250 pp., $50.00 (hardcover). There are many books that now purport to be surveys of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Many of them attempt to focus on ...
ADHD and The Nature of Self-Control
Jan 01, 2000; ... ADHD and The Nature of Self-Control Russell A. Barkley. New York: The Guilford Press (www.guilford.com). 1997, 410 pp., $42.00 (hardcover). Russell Barkley has been among the most productive and prolific scientists in the field of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This ...
Psychiatric Nursing: An Integration of Theory and Practice
Jan 01, 2000; ... Psychiatric Nursing: An Integration of Theory and Practice P. G. O'Brien (Ed.), W. Z. Kennedy, and K. A. Ballard (Ed.). New York: McGraw Hill (www.mcgraw-hill.com). 1999, 632 pp., $39.95 (softcover). This is an ambitious contributed book written to be a basic text for undergraduate ...
Phobias: A Handbook of Theory, Research and Treatment
Jan 01, 2000; ... Phobias: A Handbook of Theory, Research and Treatment Graham C. L. Davey (Ed.). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons (www.wiley.com). 1997, 470 pp., $139.95 (hardcover). Behavior therapy traces its roots to the treatment of specific phobia. Phobias are ubiquitous and are frequently seen ...
Viewpoints: A Guide to Conflict Resolution and Decision Making for Adolescents/Viewpoints (Teacher's Guide): A Guide to Conflict Resolution and Decision Making for Adolescents
Jan 01, 2000; ... Viewpoints: A Guide to Conflict Resolution and Decision Making for Adolescents Nancy G. Guerra, Ann Moore, and Ronald G. Slaby. Champaign, IL: Research Press (www.researchpress.com). 1995, 102 pp, $13.95 (paperback). Viewpoints (Teacher's Guide): A Guide to Conflict Resolution and ...
The Creative Evolution of the Theoretical Foundations for Cognitive Therapy
Jan 01, 2000; ... The theoretical underpinnings of Beck's model of cognitive therapy are examined from a developmental perspective with emphasis upon their creative nature. This is preceded by a general discussion of what constitutes creativity. The application of the discussion to Beck's developing theory ...
Hypotheticals in Cognitive Psychotherapy: Creative Questions, Novel Answers, and Therapeutic Change
Jan 01, 2000; ... The use of hypothetical questions as a creative therapeutic process is explored and described. Hypothetical questions start with the client's actual life situation-in whatever way the client construes and lives it-and triggers a search for what could be. Hypotheticals are thought experiments in ...
Applying Client Creativity to Recurrent Problems: Constructing Possibilities and Tolerating Doubt
Jan 01, 2000; ... Cognitive therapists are encouraged to work with underlying assumptions rather than core beliefs when helping clients with recurrent problems. The importance of engaging client creativity to solve recurrent problems is emphasized along with three central themes: construction of new ...
The Creative Client in Cognitive Therapy
Jan 01, 2000; ... Cognitive therapy is sometimes thought to be a set of mechanistic procedures, but in actuality the therapy requires creativity from both therapist and client. Creative clients may be able to think more flexibly and engage themselves more readily in the experimentation, imagery, and role-play ...
Enhancing Creativity in Cognitive Therapy
Jan 01, 2000; ... This article explores the nature of creativity in psychotherapy and offers several methods and frameworks with which to enhance creativity as a cognitive therapist. It reviews the methodologically permissive parameters of Beck's model, while providing a framework for enfolding methods from other ...
Cognitive-Experiential Reprocessing and Rape: A Case Study
Jan 01, 2000; ... Women who have been raped often experience profound psychological and emotional changes due, in part, to the difficulty inherent in assimilating this experience. Rape survivors may alter their entire world view, and may develop cognitive schemas that are maladaptive and dysfunctional. In order ...
Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility and Violence
Jan 01, 2000; ... Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility and Violence Aaron T. Beck. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1999, 354 pp., $26.00 (hardcover). Aaron Beck has contributed so much to the understanding and amelioration of major human problems such as depression, anxiety, ...
Comparative Treatments of Substance Abuse
Jan 01, 2000; ... Comparative Treatments of Substance Abuse E. Thomas Dowd and Loreen Rugle, Editors. New York: Springer Publishing Company (www.springerpub.com), 1999, 288 pp., $38.95 (hardcover). This volume in Springer's well-conceived Comparative Treatments of Psychological Disorders series was ...
The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcome Assessment
Jan 01, 2000; ... The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcome Assessment. Second Edition Mark E. Maruish (Ed.), Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum (www.erlbaum.com). 1999, 1436 pp. + index, $250 (hard cover). Psychological assessment has become increasingly important both in the research ...
EMDR: A Closer Look (Video and Video Manual)
Jan 01, 2000; ... EMDR: A Closer Look (Video and Video Manual) Since the 1980s, the diagnosis and treatment of PTSD has received increased attention from theorists and clinicians alike, resulting in a number of new treatment approaches. Among them, EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing) has ...
Phenomenologically Based Relaxation Theory
Jan 01, 2000; ... Phenomenologically Based Relaxation Theory ABC Relaxation Theory: An Evidenced-Based Approach Jonathan C. Smith. New York: Springer Publishing Company (www.springerpub.com). 1999, 216 pp., $39.95 (hardcover). According to Smith, his book ABC Relaxation Theory: An Evidence-Based Approach ...
Treatment of Childhood Disorders
Jan 01, 2000; ... Treatment of Childhood Disorders. Second Edition Eric Mash and Russell Barkley (Eds.)-New York: Guilford Press (www.guilford.com). 1998, 771 pp., $69.95. Published nine years after the first edition, substantial developments in the field of child and adolescent treatment clearly justify ...
The AD/HD Forms Book: Identification, Measurement, and Intervention
Jan 01, 2000; ... The AD/HD Forms Book: Identification, Measurement, and Intervention M. J. Asher and S. B. Gordon. Champaign, IL: Research Press (www.researchpress.com). 1998, 128 pp., $25.95 (softcover). The authors present a collection of clear, easy to use monitoring forms as well as step-by-step ...
Empirically Supported Treatment for Panic Disorder: Research, Theory, and Application of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Jan 01, 2000; ... In this article we review the DSM-IV criteria for Panic Disorder (PD), provide a brief overview of the cognitive model of PD, discuss empirically supported treatment components, and review pivotal experiments examining cognitive behavioral therapy for PD. A case example is also included to ...
Cognitive Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Jan 01, 2000; ... Cognitive therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) may be at least as effective and less stressful as the current psychological treatment of choice, exposure and response prevention (ERP). Cognitive therapy studies will be reviewed and a case example used to illustrate specific cognitive ...
Treatment of PTSD Using Cognitive and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
Jan 01, 2000; ... This article reviews the assessment and cognitive behavioral treatment of patients with civilian trauma related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and presents a case example to illustrate the use of cognitive behavioral therapy for PTSD. Areas of importance for assessment include thorough ...
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Bipolar I Disorder
Jan 01, 2000; ... Although Bipolar I disorder has traditionally been considered a biological illness requiring a biological intervention, research on the course of the illness and the process of treatment suggest that pharmacotherapy alone is insufficient in controlling the symptoms of this disorder. Symptoms ...
Update in Cognitive Therapy for Depression
Jan 01, 2000; ... In this review article, the evolution of the cognitive theory of depression is described and new theories, inspired by cognitive science, are examined. The results of major meta-analyses of controlled outcome studies of cognitive therapy (CT) in depression, as well as of recent outcome and ...
Cognitive Therapy and Empirically Validated Treatments
Jan 01, 2000; ... Most historiographers of psychotherapy point to Eysenck's (1952) formative critique of the field as a significant rallying call to psychotherapy researchers and practitioners to demonstrate the effectiveness of psychotherapy over and above various estimates of natural recovery or so-called ...
Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression
Jan 01, 2000; ... Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression. Rick E. Ingram, Jeanne Miranda, and Zindel V. Segal. New York: Guilford Press (www.guilford.com). 1998, 330 pp., $40.00 (hardcover). Primarily for clinical scientists and students in doctoral research programs, this landmark volume examines the most ...
Cognitive Behavior Therapy of DSM-IV Personality Disorders
Jan 01, 2000; ... Cognitive Behavior Therapy of DSM-IV Personality Disorders. Len Sperry. Philadelphia: Brunner/Mazel. (www.taylorandfrancis.com). 1999, 190 pp., $37.95 (hardcover). There have been a number of recent books on cognitive (behavior) therapy for various personality disorders, together or ...
Sunk Costs and Resistance to Change
Jan 01, 2000; ... Normative models of decision making imply that individuals will utilize a hedonic calculus about future utility ratios (subjective utilities) in considering current alternatives. In contrast, descriptive models of actual decision making indicate that individuals utilize heuristics, ignore base ...
Short-Term Therapy for Somatization Disorder: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach
Jan 01, 2000; ... Somatization disorder is a distressing, disabling, and costly disorder. A shortterm treatment manual, applying cognitive behavioral techniques to the maladaptive behaviors and thoughts associated with Somatization disorder, was developed. The present case report examines the effectiveness of ...
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Panic in Patients With Schizophrenia: Preliminary Findings
Jan 01, 2000; ... Many patients with schizophrenia suffer from panic disorder. Although Panic Control Treatment (PCX), a cognitive-behavioral intervention for panic disorder, has been found efficacious in a number of controlled studies with careful selection criteria for participants, little is known about the ...
Cognitions in Anorexia Nervosa: Changes at Discharge From a Cognitive Therapy Milieu Inpatient Treatment Program
Jan 01, 2000; ... Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been effective in the treatment of various disorders including bulimia nervosa. However, little is known about the effectiveness of CBT on treatment of anorexia nervosa. Thirty-two patients were treated for anorexia nervosa on an inpatient unit. They were ...
Binge No More: Your Guide to Overcoming Disordered Eating
Jan 01, 2000; ... Binge No More: Your Guide to Overcoming Disordered Eating Joyce D. Nash. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. (www.newharbinger.com). 1999, 286pp., $14.95 (softcover). Joyce D. Nash, PhD, has written a self-help book addressing changing disordered eating, particularly binge ...
Rational-Emotive-Behavior Therapy: A Training Manual
Jan 01, 2000; ... Rational-Emotive-Behavior Therapy: A Training Manual Windy Dryden. New York: Springer Publishing (www.springerpub.com). 1999, 292 pp., $42.95 (hardcover). Other than The Great Albert himself, I know of no one as prolific in writing about Rational-Emotive-Behavior Therapy (REBT) as Windy ...
Vulnerability to Psychopathology: A Biosocial Model
Jan 01, 2000; ... Vulnerability to Psychopathology: A Biosocial Model Marvin Zuckerman. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 1999, 535 pp., (hardcover). A great deal has been learned about psychopathology, but still many questions remain. One of the most important questions remaining to be ...
Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders
Jan 01, 2000; ... Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety Disorders Robert L. Leahy and Stephen J. Holland. New York: Guilford Press (www.guilford.com). 2000, 322 pp., plus CD. The authors' stated goals for this book were to "provide a hands-on guide to the best research-based ...
Treating Complex Cases: The Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Approach
Jan 01, 2000; ... Treating Complex Cases: The Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Approach Nicholas Tamer, Adrian Wells, and Gillian Haddock (Eds.), West Sussex, England: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1998 (softcover). "Protocols may be helpful when it comes to treating specific disorders, but the patients walking ...
The Interactional Nature of Depression
Jan 01, 2000; ... The Interactional Nature of Depression. Thomas Joiner, and James C. Coyne, (Eds.)- Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (www.apa.orrg). 1999, 440 pp., $39.95 (hardcover). In 1976, James Coyne published a paper on the interactional context of depression that set the ...
Fight or Flight-Overcoming Panic and Agoraphobia
Jan 01, 2000; ... Fight or Flight-Overcoming Panic and Agoraphobia. Ronald Rapee. New York: Guildford Publications (www.guildford.com); New South Wales, Australia: Monky See Productions. 1999, 47 min., $95.00. Panic disorder and agoraphobia occur at one extreme end of a spectrum of anxiety, with normal ...
I Think, They Think-Overcoming Social Phobia
Jan 01, 2000; ... I Think, They Think-Overcoming Social Phobia Ronald Rapee. New York: Guilford Publications (www.guilford.com); New South Wales, Australia: Monkey See Productions. 1999, 47 min., $95.00. Social phobia occurs at one extreme end of a spectrum of anxiety, with normal anxiety being at the ...