Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness

Since the 2009 publication of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness, practitioners and researchers around the world have built on its tenets to further advance care.

With appropriate modifications, cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) is well suited for patients diagnosed with difficult-to-treat psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia and related psychoses, bipolar disorder, and severe or treatment-resistant depression. This second edition provides a timely update, incorporating evidence-based research and treatment advances in a practical and easy-to-use guide with naturalistic video demonstrations.


                With compelling case examples throughout the text, this guide helps clinicians

• Forge collaborative therapeutic relationships
• Reduce suicide risk
• Promote positive coping with hallucinations, delusions, and other manifestations of severe psychiatric illness
• Work with persistent issues such as entrenched delusions and negative symptoms
  
• Manage psychotic symptoms associated with trauma
• Develop relapse prevention plans
• Personalize CBT interventions to reflect each patient's biomedical status, sociocultural background, and cognitive and behavioral characteristics.