Cognitive Therapy in Groups: Guidelines and Resources for Practice, Second Edition

Cognitive Therapy in Groups......Page 3
Contents......Page 9
About the Author......Page 13
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 15
Part One: Preliminary Considerations......Page 19
The nature of the program......Page 21
The search for effective, efficient and ethical psychotherapy......Page 22
The nature of the therapeutic relationship......Page 25
Overview of the program......Page 26
Background to the theoretical basis for the program......Page 29
Beck’s cognitive model of emotional disorders......Page 31
Ellis’ Rational Emotive Therapy......Page 35
McMullin’s Cognitive Restructuring Therapy......Page 36
Young’s Schema Therapy......Page 38
Conclusion......Page 39
Acquiring appropriate resources......Page 41
Selecting participants......Page 44
Preparing prospective participants......Page 45
Assessment considerations......Page 47
Understanding the group cognitive therapy manual......Page 48
The role of the therapist in psychoeducational group therapy......Page 50
Choosing a format......Page 51
Treatment Manual......Page 53
Module One: Surface Beliefs and Processes......Page 55
Therapy Session One: Group Basics......Page 57
Therapy Session Two: Thinking and Feeling......Page 63
Therapy Session Three: Logical Errors......Page 71
Therapy Session Four: Appropriate Logic......Page 75
Therapy Session Five: Countering Logical Errors......Page 79
Module Two: Beneath the Surface: Exploring Your Negative Belief System......Page 85
Therapy Session Six: A Generic Model of Emotional, Behavioural and Personality Disorders......Page 87
Therapy Session Seven: Identifying Negative Schema Content Using the Vertical Arrow Method......Page 95
Therapy Session Eight: Advanced Vertical Arrows and Subjective Units of Disturbance......Page 101
Therapy Session Nine: Making Sense of Beliefs: Categorising Beliefs and Making Cognitive Maps......Page 107
Therapy Session Ten: Making Sense of Your Beliefs: Developing a Cognitive Diagnosis......Page 113
Module Three: Testing Your Beliefs......Page 121
Therapy Session Eleven: Beliefs Can be Changed and Adversarial Analysis......Page 123
Therapy Session Twelve: Challenging Your Beliefs:Investigatory Analysis......Page 129
Therapy Session Thirteen: Scientific Analysis......Page 137
Therapy Session Fourteen: Consolidation of Information......Page 149
Module Four: Changing Your Thinking and Feeling......Page 155
Therapy Session Fifteen: Countering and Adversarial Debate......Page 157
Therapy Session Sixteen: Propositional Perceptual Shift......Page 163
Therapy Session Seventeen: Emotional Shift and Schema Content Shift......Page 167
Therapy Session Eighteen: Schema Rebalancing and Schema Imagery......Page 173
Therapy Session Nineteen: Negative Schema Imagery......Page 179
Therapy Session Twenty: Strong-Nurturing-Self Imagery,Re-parenting, Letter-Writing......Page 183
Module Five: Changing Your Counterproductive Behaviour......Page 189
Therapy Session Twenty-One: Selecting Behaviour to Change......Page 191
Therapy Session Twenty-Two: Making a Behaviour Self-Change Plan......Page 209
Therapy Session Twenty-Three: Problem Solving......Page 219
Therapy Session Twenty-Four: Cognitive-Behavioural Rehearsal......Page 225
Therapy Session Twenty-Five: Maintaining Gains......Page 229
Appendices......Page 235
1. Phone Screening Protocol......Page 237
2. Intake Protocol......Page 238
3. Information for Prospective Participants......Page 239
4. Information for Referring Agents......Page 240
5. Individual Work Contract......Page 244
6. Overhead Transparency Templates......Page 245
7. Worksheets......Page 363
8. Handouts......Page 391
9. Resources for Participants......Page 399
References......Page 401
Index......Page 403