Annie Mortimer (not her real name), a graduate student in her late 20s, came to the Safe Horizon Community Program after her therapist of six months had terminated services with her.Annie had initially gone to this therapist for depressive symptoms, and to deal with longstanding family issues. About four months...

Marsha Linehan developed DBT to help patients with BPD (Linehan MM, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. New York, NY: The Guilford Press;1993), and over the past two decades it has received strong empirical support.

“Self-management” is a newly popular buzzword among clinicians treating the seriously mentally ill.

Insomnia in DSM-5According to Dr. Morin, DSM-5 will move away from the distinction between “primary” and “secondary” insomnia that is present in DSM-IV, and instead identify all insomnia as “insomnia disorder.” While the condition description will include a list of comorbid conditions, clinicians won’t have to make a causal attribution...

Some helpful information, including a question and answer section about CBT, can be found at www.beckinstitute.org. Referrals to certified cognitive therapists can be found at the Academy of Cognitive Therapy website at www.academyofct.org.

They are short, snappy, and spontaneous, as in, “I’m going to die,” “I look like an idiot,” “I’ll be just like my father,” or even more abbreviated phrases, such as, “Oh no!” Automatic thoughts can be positive, but people tend not to seek help in those cases. They may...

Sometimes transcripts of sessions with an experienced cognitive behavioral therapist sound so natural and easy, you can imagine the clinician as your best friend, chatting with you on a park bench. However, successful treatment takes foresight, and the use of these seven tips. Conceptualize a case adequately. Picture the way...

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Medications are more effective than therapy.”“Therapy is just as effective, but lasts longer.”Depending on your biases, you can probably find evidence to support either of the above propositions.Dozens of trials compare cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to a waiting-list control group, and hundreds of trials examine how antidepressants compare to placebo.

You’ve obviously heard about cognitive therapy (CT), also known as cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), and perhaps you practice it. But most psychotherapists in the U.S. do not identify themselves as CBT therapists, instead practicing an eclectic brand of therapy combining psychodynamic theory, supportive techniques, basic problem solving, and a smattering...