CBT for Personality Disorders
- Henck van Bilsen - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Partnership
- Brian Thomson - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Partnership
- 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.
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
An informative book with clear practice examples.
This is a useful text in providing easy to understand explanations of Personality Disorder. In reading the introduction, I found the analogy of 'driving a large car' was useful in understanding the approach of CBT with PD.
I also liked the scripts which described particular techniques, interventions and stages of therapy.
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
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
The consideration of personality and character styles linked to CBT practice is a useful addition to the body of existing CBT material.
Very useful addition to the body of CBT material linked specifically to personality and character styles and how these inform practice.
Adopted for use on the course.
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.
