CBT for Personality Disorders
- Henck van Bilsen - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Partnership
- Brian Thomson - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Partnership
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
This key new text on CBT for personality disorders offers a unique trainee guide to this complex area. The book provides a practical, hands-on overview of the treatment strategies for working with personality disorders, linking these with the theory of both cognitive and behavioral approaches. Covering the full range of personality disorders, this is the most rounded and introductory guide yet.
Key content includes:
- Therapist self-care; avoiding pitfalls
- Holding the CBT line in challenging circumstances, across a range of multi-disciplinary settings
- Exploration of the therapeutic relationship and engagement strategies
- Reflections on the evidence for CBT and personality problems
- Chapter introductions and summaries, key learning points and reflective questions
- Case examples and vignettes
This book is an important resource for anyone wishing to use their CBT training with clients presenting personality disorders.
'I really like this book and strongly recommend that you read it. As a clinician and educator in CBT I think this book has a lot to offer. It will meet the needs of the beginning CBT practitioners and provide welcome revision and extension of knowledge for the more experienced practitioner. This useful text provides an excellent balance of theory related to clinical practice. It was refreshing to see the authors provide a focus on behavioural theory and practice alongside the ubiquitous cognitive concepts and practice found in most other texts on this subject. There is a pleasing (and clinically useful) amount of "B" in "CBT for Personality Disorders.'
John Swan, Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, Clinical Lecturer and Course Director
University of Dundee
An informative book with clear practice examples.
Not only is this a good book around defining personality disorders it reinforces a number of key aspects of CBT and the ideas of transdiagonsis link very well with concepts of strategic therapy. Overall a very useful book for study and clinical practice
Well-written and from a therapy point of view, slightly controversial in that CBT has until now not been considered suitable for people with personality disorders due to lack of evidence of its efficacy. This book suggests otherwise.
Fantastic book. CBT has traditionally had a poor record with clients with this common diagnosis. This book shows how practitioners can work effectively by working with a flexible yet faithful (to CBT) model
Easy to read and systematic. The great book to introduce how CBT can cure personality disorders
Henck Van Bilsen s text is a thorough, if brief review of the main factors involved in providing CBT to this client group. However it would have benefitted from a deeper discussion of the nature and quality of the interpersonal aspects of this work (i.e. the process of transference/counter-transference) that is so critical with this type of disorder
An excellent overview of the relationship between the various Cognitive and Behavioural interventions which can be engineered to facilitate recovery from, and the inter-relationship between various personality disorders. Replete with schematic overviews, treatment plans and case study analysis - highly recommended for those embarking on a CBT career!
Very useful for the mental health team workers giving an excellent overview of the role of CBT in the growing area of personality disorders.
Gives clear outline on the use of CBT for personality disorders, especially written by CBT practitioners.
