CBT for Long-Term Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms: A Practitioner's Guide

ISBN-13: 9780367424879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 212 str.

Helen Moya

Opis

CBT for Long-Term Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms　describes how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) can be used to treat anxiety and depression with a co-morbid long-term physical health condition (LTC), or medically unexplained symptoms (MUS).

Spis treści

Introduction; Part one: core skills to treat long-term medical conditions, and medically unexplained symptoms; 1. Core skills in understanding and helping this patient group; 2. Assessment and formulation; 3. Measuring problems, establishing suitability, and negotiating goals; Part two: Low intensity, protocol, and formulation-based CBT for long-term conditions; 4. Low-intensity work with health conditions; 5. Cognitive therapy for depression in long-term conditions; 6. ACT and third wave approaches to depression in long-term conditions; 7. Skills in working with anxiety disorders in long-term conditions; 8: A different angle: helping patients maintain identity through life-story work, social interaction, and strengths-based CBT; Part three: a formulation approach to medically unexplained symptoms; 9. Making sense of MUS, through a formulation approach; 10. CBT from the inside out: a lived experience account; 11. Ways of assisting patients in changing negative behaviours; 12. Skills in working with cognition; 13. Aiding patients with emotional expression and regulation; 14. Identifying and helping patients who are fearful of recovery; References