This excellent book addresses an important new topic in a comprehensive manner...This is must reading for CBT practitioners. Doody's Notes

Foreword ; SECTION 1 LOW INTENSITY CBT MODELS AND CONCEPTUAL UNDERPINNINGS ; Overview ; 1. Low Intensity CBT Interventions: A Revolution in Mental Health Services ; 2. Access and Organisation: Putting Low Intensity Interventions to Work in Clinical Services ; 3. The STEPS Model: a High Volume, Multi-level, Multi-purpose approach to address Common Mental Health Problems ; 4. Increasing Access and Effectiveness: Using the Internet to deliver Low Intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy ; 5. A New Language for CBT: New ways of Working Require New Thinking as well as New Words ; SECTION 2A: INTRODUCING AND SUPPORTING GUIDED CBT ; Overview ; 6. Low Intensity CBT Assessment: In Person or by Phone ; 7. Monitoring & Evaluation in Low Intensity CBT Interventions ; 8. Introducing and Supporting Written and Internet-Based Guided CBT ; 9. Matching clients to CBT self-help resources ; 10. Collaborative Care: The Effective Organization of Treatment for Depression ; 11. Supervising low intensity workers ; SECTION 2B KEY LOW INTENSITY CBT INTERVENTIONS IN DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY ; Overview ; 12. Behavioural Activation for Depression ; 13. Problem Solving Therapy for Depression ; 14. Increasing Physical activity as a Low Intensity Treatment for Depression ; 15. Key Components of Low Intensity Interventions for Anxiety ; 16. Brief Motivational Interviewing for Depression and Anxiety ; 17. Low Intensity Interventions for Chronic Insomnia ; SECTION 2C: GUIDED CBT INTERVENTIONS USING WRITTEN MATERIALS ; Overview ; 18. Choosing self-help books wisely: Sorting the wheat from the chaff ; 19. Using Guided Self-Help Book Prescription Schemes ; 20. Delivering book based CBT Self-Help Classes in health service, further education and voluntary sector services ; SECTION 2D: GUIDED CBT INTERVENTIONS USING THE INTERNET ; Overview ; 21. Turn On, Tune In and (Don't) Drop Out: Engagement, Adherence, Attrition and Alliance with Internet-based CBT Interventions ; 22. Treatment Credibility and Satisfaction with Internet Interventions ; 23. Internet-based Mental Health Screening ; 24. Standards and Operating Guidelines for Internet Interventions ; 25. Guided CBT Internet Interventions: Specific Issues in Supporting Clients with Depression, Anxiety and Co-Morbid Conditions ; SECTION 2E NOVEL USES OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: SUPPORTING LOW INTENSITY CBT IN NEW ENVIRONMENTS ; Overview ; 26. Using different communication channels to support internet interventions ; 27. Supporting Low Intensity Interventions using the Telephone ; 28. Use of Short-Messaging Service (SMS) To Enhance Low Intensity CBT ; 29. Email in Low Intensity CBT Interventions ; 30. Online Mutual Support Bulletin Boards ; 31. Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapies by Mail (M-CBT) ; SECTION 2F STEPPING FURTHER OUTSIDE THE BOX: EXTENDING THE ENVIRONMENTS FOR LOW INTENSITY CBT ; Overview ; 32. Large group didactic CBT classes for common mental health problems ; 33. Cognitive Behaviour Group Therapy (CBGT): Capitalizing on efficiency and humanity ; 34. Will you follow while they lead? Introducing a patient-led approach to low intensity CBT interventions ; 35. The Advice Clinic or What I did in my thirty minutes ; 36. Low intensity CBT Interventions by General Practitioners ; 37. Adapting low intensity CBT for clients with severe mental disorder ; SECTION 2G: GOING UPSTREAM: USING LOW INTENSITY CBT INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ; Overview ; 38. Group CBT for prevention of depression in adults ; 39. Internet-delivered prevention for anxiety and depression disorders in adults ; 40. Low intensity targeted group prevention of depression in adolescents and children ; 41. Internet-based anxiety and depression prevention programs for children and adolescents ; 42. Parental programs for preventing behavioural and emotional problems in children ; 43. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: a low intensity group program to prevent depressive relapse ; SECTION 3 TRAINING LOW INTENSITY CBT PRACTITIONERS ; Overview ; 44. Training low intensity workers ; 45. Training Depression Care Managers ; 46. Training Peers to Provide Low Intensity CBT Support: The Value of Personal Experience ; 47. Training the Wider Workforce in the Use of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Written Self-help Resources ; 48. Training GPs to prescribe depression self-management ; 49. Training Clinicians Online to be Etherapists: The 'Anxiety Online' model ; 50. From Classroom to 'Shop Floor': Challenges Faced As A Low Intensity Practitioner ; SECTION 4A: FACILITATING THE UPTAKE OF LOW INTENSITY CBT INTERVENTIONS: CHANGING SYSTEMS AND ROUTINE PRACTICE ; Overview ; 51. Establishing the Improved Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Program: Lessons from large-scale change in England ; 52. Implementing Low Intensity Interventions: What Governments want and why ; 53. Challenges and Potential Solutions in Integrating Internet-based CBT Interventions into Specialist Services ; 54. Achieving widespread dissemination of low intensity evidence-based practices: The experience of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program ; 55. Practical Service Redesign: Helping GPs to Enhance Depression Care ; 56. Implementing low-intensity CBT (LI CBT) in case management of clients with severe mental illness ; 57. Effective Partnerships with Community Groups ; SECTION 4B: FACILITATING THE UPTAKE OF LOW INTENSITY CBT INTERVENTIONS: ADAPTING INTERVENTIONS TO DIFFERENT COMMUNITY CONTEXTS ; Overview ; 58. Bringing the public on board: Health promotion and social marketing in deprived communities ; 59. Enhancing Community Awareness of Depression and Access to Treatment: Experiences with beyondblue ; 60. Problems and Potentials in Rolling out Low Intensity CBT in Rural Communities ; 61. Improving Access to Low intensity Interventions for Ethnic Minority Communities ; 62. Low intensity CBT with Indigenous consumers: Creative solutions for culturally appropriate mental health care