In this revised edition of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Michelle G. Craske provides vital updated coverage of the literature that explores the theory, history, therapy process, primary change mechanisms, and empirical basis of the approach, as well as likely future developments.
This essential primer to cognitive behavioral therapy, amply illustrated with case examples featuring diverse clients, is perfect for graduate students studying theories of therapy and counseling as well as for seasoned practitioners interested in better understanding this approach.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) originated in the science and theory of classical and instrumental conditioning when cognitive principles were adopted following dissatisfaction with a strictly behavioral approach. CBT combines behavioral and cognitive interventions so that, on the behavioral level, practitioners can aim to decrease clients' maladaptive behaviors and increase adaptive ones, and, on the cognitive level, they can aim to modify clients' maladaptive thoughts, self-statements, or beliefs.
A large number of variations on the original theory have developed over the decades, but all types of CBT are unified by their empirical foundation, reliance on the theory and science of behavior and cognition, and the centrality of problem-focused goals. In this edition, the author provides vital updated coverage of the literature that explores the therapy process, primary change mechanisms, and empirical basis of the approach, as well as likely future developments.
Michelle G. Craske, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Psychology, and Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Director of the Anxiety and Depression Research Center, Associate Director of the Staglin Family Music Center for Behavioral and Brain Health, and a member of the Executive Committee for the Depression Grand Challenge, at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published extensively in the area of risk factors and treatment for fear, anxiety and depression. In addition, she has been the recipient of National Institute of Mental Health funding since 1993 for research projects pertaining to risk factors for anxiety disorders and depression among children and adolescents, the cognitive and physiological aspects of anxiety and panic attacks, neural mediators of behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders, fear extinction mechanisms of exposure therapy, implementation of treatments for anxiety and depression, and constructs of positive valence and negative valence underlying anxiety and depression. She is presently Editor-in-Chief for Behaviour Research and Therapy and Associate Editor of Psychological Bulletin, and a scientific board member for the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She was a member of the DSM-5 Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum, Posttraumatic, and Dissociative Disorders Work Group (Chair, Anxiety Disorders Subworkgroup) and is currently a member of DSM-5 Steering Committee. Dr. Craske received her BA Hons from the University of Tasmania and her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.
