Second Edition: Learning Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

An Illustrated Guide

Building on its successful “read-see-do” approach, this second edition of Learning Cognitive-Behavior Therapy: An Illustrated Guide seamlessly combines 23 all-new videos with informative text and figures, charts, worksheets, checklists, and tables to help readers not only learn the essential skills of CBT but achieve competence in this important evidence-based treatment method.

This guide provides readers with instruction, tools, and expert demonstrations on building effective therapeutic relationships with CBT, putting key CBT methods into action, and resolving common problems encountered in CBT. This fully updated second edition also features troubleshooting guides for overcoming roadblocks to treatment success, effective CBT methods for reducing suicide risk, and tips on integrating therapies related to CBT—including dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and well-being therapy. Featuring leading CBT clinicians demonstrating methods in real-world settings, the all-new videos include topics such as working with suicidal patients and responding to other difficult treatment challenges.

Recognized as a teaching tool for building competence in CBT, this new edition gives readers access to resources for building and strengthening their skills in CBT practice.

Jesse H. Wright, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor and Gottfried and Gisela Kolb Endowed Chair in Outpatient Psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, where he also serves as the Director of the University of Louisville Depression Center.

Gregory K. Brown, Ph.D., is Research Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Michael E. Thase, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Monica Ramirez Basco, Ph.D., is Associate Director Science Policy, Planning, and Analysis at the National Institutes of Health, Office of Research on Women’s Health, Bethesda, Maryland.