Empirically Supported Cognitive Therapies Current and Future Applications [Hardcover]

This collection presents empirically validated cognitive techniques for depression, bipolar I disorder, phobias, panic disorder, OCD, PTSD,anger management, eating disorders, and antisocial behavior in children and adolescents. Case examples are integral to each discussion. Emcompassing recent trends, current limitations, and new directions and developments, the book offers a fundamenetal knowledge base for students and practitioners alike.

This volume moves the field of psychotherapy from the pre-scientific era...to the scientific era....The therapeutic principles, strategies and techniques for each of the disorders have been validated in clinical trials. This volume is a must for practitioners, neophytes, and teachers.
--Aaron T. Beck, MD,University Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine

Contributors
Foreword, by Robert L. Leahy
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Empirically Supported Treatments: An Introduction,William J. Lyddon and John V. Jones, Jr.

Part I: Mood Disorders

2. Depression,Ivy-Marie Blackburn and Steve Moorhead
3. Bipolar I Disorder,Monica Ramirez Basco

Part II: Anxiety Disorders

4. Phobias,Deborah R. Fahr and E. Thomas Dowd
5. Panic Disorder,William C. Sanderson and Simon A. Rego
6. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder,Sabine Wilhelm
7. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,Sherry A. Falsetti and Heidi S. Resnick

Part III: New Directions and Developments

8. Anger Management,Eric R. Dahlen and Jerry L. Deffenbacher
9. Antisocial Behaviors in Children and Adolescents: Expanding the Cognitive Model,Laura D. Hanish and Patrick H. Tolan
10. Eating Disorders: Enhancing Effectiveness Through the Integration of Cultural Factors,Nona L. Wilson and Anne E. Blackhurst
11. Empirically Supported Treatments: Recent Trends, Current Limitations, and Futurelsó