COGNITIVE THERAPY OF DEPRESSION
Aaron T. Beck, A. John Rush, Brian F. Shaw, and Gary Emery
Guilford Publications, 1979
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Understand how psychotherapists can efficiently treat the full range of patient problems
• Learn how to use cognitive therapy for the treatment of depression in individual and group settings
• Discuss specific types of illogical, idiosyncratic inferences typically made by depressed persons
• Learn and understand the components of the cognitive triad
• Learn the typical problems for a depressed patient
• Learn how long a typical course of cognitive therapy takes for treating a moderately to severely depressed patient
• Learn the major therapeutic goal of the first interview in cognitive therapy
• Learn whether a patient’s stylistic and logical errors are useful in cognitive therapy
• Learn the criteria that would justify the administration of cognitive therapy alone for the treatment of depression
Aaron T. Beck, M.D., is Director of the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or co-author of over 300 articles, 9 books, and 20 book chapters and has received many honors and awards. He has been listed as one of the most influential psychotherapists by both the AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST and the CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGIST.
A. John Rush, M.D., is Betty Jo Hay Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Brian F. Shaw, Ph.D., is in the Department of Psychology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Gary Emery, Ph.D., is Director of the Los Angeles Center of Cognitive Therapy.
12 CE credits; 425 pages
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