The Therapeutic Relationship in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Dr Stirling Moorey is a Consultant Psychiatrist in CBT at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. He was formerly Professional Head of Psychotherapy for SlaM. He has trained in Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Schema Therapy and is also a Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy teacher. He has been training mental health professionals in CBT for 30 years, and regularly gives workshops on managing complexity, adversity and interpersonal process in CBT. His research interests are in the application of CBT to cancer and physical illness.Dr Anna Lavender is a Principal Clinical Psychologist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.  She has nineteen years’ experience in CBT treatment and supervision, and is also a qualified Schema Therapist and supervisor.  She teaches training psychologists on interpersonal processes in therapy, and has worked extensively with individuals with personality disorders.  She is joint UK lead on an international trial of the use of Group Schema Therapy with individual with Borderline Personality Disorder.

• SECTION 11.The therapeutic relationship - Stirling Moorey & Anna Lavender2.Alliance Ruptures - Stirling Moorey & Anna Lavender3.Interpersonal schemas, ‘transference’ and ‘countertransference’ in CBT - Stirling Moorey & Anna LavenderSECTION 24.Depression - Stirling Moorey5.Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Kevin Meares, Susan Harrison & Mark Freeston6.Panic and Phobias - Richard Stott7.OCD, BDD and Hoarding - Lisa Williams & David Veale8. Medically Unexplained Symptoms - David McCormack & Trudie Chadler9.Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Nick Grey & Kerry Young10.Psychosis - Rebecca Kelly, Annis Cohen & Emmanuelle Peters11.Eating disorders - Ulrike Schmidt12.Physical illness and Palliative Care - Stirling Moorey & Kathy Burn13.Personality Disorders - Anna Lavender & Helen StartupSECTION 314.Children and Adolescents - Troy Tranah & Lorna Taylor15.Older adults - Debbie Walker & Charlotte Gardner16.Black and Minority Ethnic Groups - Patricia D’ArdenneSECTION 417.Group CBT - Graeme Whitfield & Michael Scott18.Couples - Marion Cuddy19.Supervision - Stirling Moorey

This book provides the practitioner with accessible theory-in-practice models which hold the therapeutic relationship as one of key element in the process of change. I would recommend it to both CB Therapists & those thinking of integrating CBT into their practice rationale.