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Empirically Supported Cognitive Therapies
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During the past 2 to 3 decades the field of psychotherapy has experienced a tremendous amount of differentiation and growth. To be sure, die current psychotherapy landscape Is represented by a diverse, and sometimes overwhelming, array of theoretical models and practices. Paralleling this differentiation and diversification, however, has been a trend toward convergence and integration of psychotherapy approaches, exemplified by the common factors approach, systematic eclecticism, and theoretical integration, A more recent and significant integrative force in contemporary psychotherapy is the empirically supported treatment (EST) movement, which has a primary goal of identifying and consolidating treatments that "work" for particular types of disorders based on empirical criteria of efficacy. While the contemporary EST movement has been galvanized by a number of political and professional forces—including managed health, care, the ascendance of biological psychiatry, and changing accreditation piidelines for doctoral training programs in applied professional psychology—a significant but often underemphasized justification for the EST movement is related to the ethical issues of public trust and accountability. Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals have an ethical obligation to the public they serve to ensure, as much as possible, that the treatments they offer are fundamentally sound. As a result, researchers and practitioners are obligated to use empirically supported treatments to guide their work as a matter of ethical accountability. When Aaron Beck began reporting on the efficacy of cognitive therapy in the treatment of depression, the groundwork was being laid to establish an empirical basis for the practice of cognitive therapy, Today cognitive therapy is at the forefront of the EST movement and has been demonstrated in over 325 research studies to be efficacious for a wide range of psychological problems. Empirically supported treatments derived from the cognitive model are increasingly being applied across the full spectrum of psychological disorders. The present volume brings together leading researchers and clinicians in the field in order to summarize the most current empirical developments in cognitive therapy for the treatment of mood disorders, phobias, panic, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post traumatic stress disorder. Recent developments in empirically based extensions and elaborations of the cognitive model in the treatment of anger, antisocial behavior in children and adolescents, and eating disorders are also presented. The overarching principle for each of these contributions is that clinical research should play an important role in guiding clinical practice. As a result, the authors of each chapter summarize the empirical literature bearing on the treatment of the particular disorder under consideration and then offer relevant practice guidelines suggested by clinical research. Case examples and clinical protocols are employed to further illustrate how the practice of cognitive therapy may be informed by empirical outcomes. From this standpoint, the contributors to this volume have all significantly advanced cognitive therapy's increasingly prominent role in the EST movement
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Empirically Supported Cognitive Therapies
Psychology
English
Springer Publishing Company
2001
New York
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