A Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT Using Method of Levels Therapy: Distinctive Features

ISBN-13: 9780415507646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str.

Warren Mansell

Opis

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is the treatment of choice for most mental health problems. Each different problem is usually treated by a different model of CBT. This manual draws on evidence and theory to provide the key principles to aid change and recovery.

Spis treści

Introduction. Part I: Theory. Thinking styles and behaviours that maintain psychological distress are transdiagnostic. Transdiagnostic processes overlap to form a core process that maintains distress. The phenomenon of control - perception, comparison, and action. The control of perception - not the control of behaviour. The negative feedback loop. Basic causes of the loss of control. Hierarchies of Control – Going up and down levels. Conflict. Reorganisation – a non-linear process of change. Awareness and imagination. Arbitrary (or inflexible) control maintains distress via conflict. Directing awareness to regain flexible control - a common factor of CBT, effective therapy, and natural recovery. Interpersonal control. Circular causality and model building. It’s all perception. Part II: Practice. The setting conditions: A problem that the client is willing to talk about. The stance: To enable the client’s flexible control as efficiently as possible. Method of Levels goal one: asking about the current problem. Method of Levels goal two: asking about disruptions. Using the past, controlling the present and living for the future. "Green Apples" – Working through problems without disclosure. What to say at the first session. How much treatment and how often to provide it. A focus on distress rather than symptoms. Outcome monitoring. Evaluating your own practice. The therapeutic relationship – liberated exploration. Building MOL into other therapies and therapeutic practices. Utilising control theory in existing CBT. Interventions without talking - testing the controlled variable.