Adrian Whittington & Nick Grey 
How to Become a More Effective CBT Therapist [PDF ebook] 
Mastering Metacompetence in Clinical Practice

How to Become a More Effective CBT Therapist explores
effective ways for therapists to move beyond competence to
‘metacompetence’, remaining true to the core principles
of CBT while adapting therapeutic techniques to address the
everyday challenges of real-world clinical work. This innovative
text explores how to:

* Work most effectively with fundamental therapeutic factors such
as the working alliance and diversity;

* Tackle complexities such as co-morbidity, interpersonal
dynamics and lack of progress in therapy;

* Adapt CBT when working with older people, individuals with
long-term conditions (LTCs), intellectual disabilities, personality
disorders and psychosis;

* Develop as a therapist through feedback, supervision,
self-practice and training.

Tabella dei contenuti

About the Editors ix

About the Contributors x

Foreword by David M. Clark xv

Foreword by Tony Roth xvii

I The Foundations 1

1 Mastering Metacompetence: The Science and Art of Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy 3

Adrian Whittington and Nick Grey

2 The Central Pillars of CBT 17

David Westbrook

3 Developing and Maintaining a Working Alliance in CBT 31

Helen Kennerley

4 Working with Diversity in CBT 44

Sharif El-Leithy

II Handling Complexity 63

5 Working with Co-Morbid Depression and Anxiety Disorders: A
Multiple Diagnostic Approach 65

Adrian Whittington

6 Collaborative Case Conceptualization: Three Principles and
Five Steps for Working with Complex Cases 83

Robert Kidney and Willem Kuyken

7 Transdiagnostic Approaches for Anxiety Disorders 104

Freda Mc Manus and Roz Shafran

8 When and How to Talk about the Past in CBT 120

Gillian Butler

9 ‘Is it Them or is it Me?’ Transference and
Countertransference in CBT 132

Stirling Moorey

10 What To Do When CBT Isn’t Working? 146

Michael Worrell

III Adapting for Specific Client Groups 161

11 CBT with People with Long-Term Medical Conditions 163

Jane Hutton, Myra S. Hunter, Stephanie Jarrett and Nicole de
Zoysa

12 CBT with People with Personality Disorders 178

Kate M. Davidson

13 CBT with People with Psychosis 191

Louise Johns, Suzanne Jolley, Nadine Keen and Emmanuelle
Peters

14 CBT with Older People 208

Steve Boddington

15 CBT with People with Intellectual Disabilities 225

Biza Stenfert Kroese

IV Mastering Metacompetence 239

16 Using Self-Practice and Self-Reflection (SP/SR) to Enhance
CBT Competence and Metacompetence 241

Richard Thwaites, James Bennett-Levy, Melanie Davis and Anna
Chaddock

17 Using Outcome Measures and Feedback to Enhance Therapy and
Empower Patients 255

Sheena Liness

18 Making CBT Supervision More Effective 269

Nick Grey, Alicia Deale, Suzanne Byrne and Sheena Liness

19 Take Control of your Training for Competence and
Metacompetence 284

Adrian Whittington

An Afterword about Therapist Style 300

Simon Darnley and Nick Grey

Index 306

Circa l’autore

Adrian Whittington is Director of Education and Training at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. A Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Adrian is passionate about enabling wider access to evidence-based psychological therapies. Adrian was a director of postgraduate training programmes in CBT before taking up his current role. He works clinically with people with anxiety disorders and depression, particularly following trauma, and teaches on the postgraduate CBT training programme at the University of Sussex, UK.

Nick Grey is Joint Clinical Director and Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT), South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King’s Health Partners. He is actively involved in disseminating cognitive behavioural therapies, trying to ensure that the most effective treatments are applied in routine care. A BABCP-accredited practitioner, supervisor and trainer, Nick is also Honorary Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry and editor of A Casebook of Cognitive Therapy for Traumatic Stress Reactions (2009).