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1 online resource (ix, 340 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Practical resources for the mental health professional
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Practical resources for the mental health professional.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-334) and indexes. |
Contents |
Cognitive appraisal theory. What makes difficult clients difficult -- Motivation and attachment -- Basic CAT concepts: personotypic affect, justifying cognitions, and security-seeking behaviors -- Patterns of personality -- The difficult client revisited -- Cognitive appraisal therapy. The CAT assessment -- Interventions based on the CAT model -- Affect-based interventions -- Additional interventions involving cognition, behavior, adjunctive medication, and therapeutic impasses -- The process of CAT (case studies) -- Applications of CAT. CAT with personality-disordered clients -- Working with borderline personality-disordered clients -- Couples therapy -- CAT group therapy -- Working with "difficult" parents. |
Summary |
"I know that I am doing therapy correctly and well, so why aren't some of my clients changing?" "Why do I feel anxious when I think about my next session with that difficult client?" When psychotherapy stalls, it's time to try new ideas. The authors' experience with difficult clients -- uncooperative, hostile, uncommitted to change -- gave them a new perspective on working with therapeutic impasses. Papers describing Cognitive Appraisal Therapy have appeared in many books and journals, and now for the first time these ideas are compiled into a single volume. Heavily influenced by the psychothe. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Cognitive therapy.
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Cognitive therapy. |
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Psychotherapy.
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Psychotherapy. |
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Aggressiveness.
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Aggressiveness. |
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- methods. |
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Patient Compliance -- psychology. |
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Defense Mechanisms. |
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Patients -- psychology. |
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Personality. |
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Professional-Patient Relations. |
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Hankin, Sheenah.
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Stern, Jonathan.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Wessler, Richard L. Succeeding with difficult clients. San Diego : Academic Press, 2001 012744470X (DLC) 2001088744 (OCoLC)47063434 |
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0585492190 (electronic book) |
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9780585492193 (electronic book) |
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0080518117 |
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9780080518114 |
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9780127444703 |
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012744470X |
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