Author(s): Robert L. Leahy, Dennis Tirch and Lisa A Napolitano

Psychotherapy

Highly practical and accessible, this unique book gives therapists powerful tools for helping patients learn to cope with feared or avoided emotional experiences. The book presents a menu of effective intervention options -- including schema modification, stress management, acceptance, mindfulness, self-compassion, cognitive restructuring, and other techniques -- and describes how to select the best ones for particular patients or situations. Provided are sample questions to pose to patients, specific interventions to use, suggested homework assignments, illustrative examples and sample dialogues, and troubleshooting tips. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the volume is packed with over 65 reproducible handouts and forms.

About the author:
Robert L. Leahy and Dennis Tirch, both at the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA and Lisa A. Napolitano, CBT/DBT Associates, New York, USA and New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA