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Making Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Work: Clinical Process for New Practitioners

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This book is not only easy to read, but you learn so much information and actually understand it. It is difficult to find a book that teaches new practitioners technique without going over their heads. Great Job on this one! I am recommending for all of my classmates in our Masters Program.

This is one of those books that I regret not having when I was beginning with cognitive behavioral therapy. The authors synthesize all the crucial information to help therapists make CBT work. Readers will dramatically increase their comfort, confidence, and outcomes with delivering CBT. I used this book with graduate students I supervised and they loved it!

Much more practical that Dr. Beck's "Basics and Beyond" work, this book breaks down the CBT process into bite-sized pieces so that even the most novice of practioners can get their head around this highly effective, yet complex mode of treatment.

The authors are cogent in their explanations and illustrations of concepts. This book is the perfect introduction to CBT and will allow the practioner to benefit from more advanced resources, such as those offered by Dr. Robert Leahy (resources I highly recommend).

First class resource. A must have.

Although this book is by no means an in-depth review of cognitive behavioral therapy, it is a great resource for new practitioners and those looking to learn cognitive-behavioral techniques for the first time. The author does a good job at describing a step by step approach that includes everything from assessment of an individual to terminating therapy. Overall, this book is a great resource for graduate students, but may be too simple for more advanced practitioners.

As a clinical doctoral student in psychology, this book was very helpful in presenting me with clear theoretical background in working with a variety of clients. I found the bibiography especially useful since it helped me to further focus on certain populations that I could try CBT with as my theory of choice.

Not only is this book a concise easy read for practitioners, it can also benefit patients interested in the treatment they will be receiving. They will gain insight about CBT from a therapist's point of view.

This is a good book for beginning clinicians who are tackling CBT. Some of the information is fairly basic and tedious (how to start interactions with clients, how to document notes) but the majority of the information is very useful in describing the basics of CBT and how to overcome obstacles in the CBT process.

This book is a good tool for new clinicians that are learning this theraphy and are implementing it in their sessions.

I have really enjoyed this book so far. It has been an easy and interesting read.