Rumination-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Depression

Synopsis

From A Leading Clinician-researcher, This Book Presents An Empirically Tested Approach For Helping Clients With Severe And Chronic Depression By Directly Tackling Negative Rumination. Rumination-focused Cognitive-behavioral Therapy (rfcbt) Combines Carefully Adapted Elements Of Cbt With Imagery, Visualization, And Compassion-based Techniques. The Book Provides Everything Needed To Implement This 12-session Approach, Including Numerous Sample Dialogues, A Chapter-length Case Example, Reflections And Learning Exercises For Therapists, And 10 Reproducible Client Handouts. Purchasers Get Access To A Web Page Where They Can Download And Print The Reproducible Materials In A Convenient 8 1/2 X 11 Size. Key Words/subject Areas: Anxiety Disorders, Behavioral Activation, Cbt, Cognition, Cognitive-behavioral Therapy, Depressive, Functional Analysis, Interventions, Major Depression, Metacognition, Metacognitive, Mood Disorders, Obsessions, Psychotherapy, Recurrent, Relapse Prevention, Rfcbt, Rumination, Self-compassion, Transdiagnostic, Treatment Manuals, Worry Audience: Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Clinical Social Workers, Mental Health And Pastoral Counselors, And Psychiatric Nurses-- Machine Generated Contents Note: I. Rumination Processes In Psychopathology And Treatment -- 1. Why A Treatment Targeting Rumination? -- 2. Understanding Rumination -- 3. Key Components And Principles Of Rfcbt -- Ii. Rumination-focused Cognitive-behavioral Therapy -- 4. Initial Assessment -- 5. Therapy Rationale And Goal Setting -- 6. Functional Analysis Of Rumination -- 7. Choosing Treatment Interventions -- 8. Practice At Developing Interventions: Addressing Difficulties And Hurdles -- 9. Shifting Processing Style: Becoming Concrete And Specific -- 10. Shifting Processing Style: Absorption -- 11. Shifting Processing Style: Compassion -- Iii. Application And Extension Of Rfcbt -- 12. A Case Of Rfcbt From Beginning To End -- 13. Adaptations Of Rfcbt -- Appendix. Handouts -- References -- Index. Edward R. Watkins. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.