Communication in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
From its beginnings as the “talking cure,” psychotherapy has depended on the strength of the relationship between practitioner and patient. Today, this is particularly true of cognitive behavioral therapy, which requires skilled listening—understanding an
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Communication in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Editor Michela Rimondini Department of Public Health and Community Medicine University of Verona Piazzale L.A. Scuro 10 37134 Verona Italy [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-6806-7 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-6807-4 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6807-4 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
There are certainly several books that address the topic of interpersonal communication in the healing context, from a theoretical as well as pragmatic perspective. The peculiarity of the present manual is that it deepens the process of communication in the specific setting of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). In psychotherapy the ability to explore and share meanings through a masterful use of communication skills is the main tool in the hands of the clinician. Specific therapeutic strategies such as debating or cognitive restructuring are effective insofar as the clinician shows proficiency in illustrating and applying them through a proper patient centered language. The main aim of this handbook is to provide to the reader a comprehensive overview of the core issues regarding patient–therapist communication in CBT, moving from the basic assumption of inter-correlation between research, teaching and clinical activity. Indeed, for several reasons that widen from economical to ethical aspects, an evidence based clinical practice is strongly advocated by patients and healthcare providers. This brings to the need to overcome the methodological difficulties that historically discouraged research of communication in psychotherapy and to promote the development of methods capable to capture the complexity of this multifaceted process. Nevertheless the available clinical evidences and the knowledge collected up to know, have to be spread out to experienced and inexperienced healthcare providers, applying updated teaching methods based on adult learning models. For this reason this book has been written by many different hands, since I have brought together a number of experts in psychotherapy, teaching and research coming from various backgrounds. Therefore the reader will be asked to navigate t
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