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ОглавлениеRoss G. Menzies
There are many schools of psychotherapy from short-term, solutions-focussed methods to long-term, insight-oriented approaches. The clinical work of both authors is heavily based on the cognitive-behavioural tradition which emerged from experimental psychology in the laboratory in the middle of the last century. Compared to most approaches, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is generally a brief process since it directly targets the unhelpful thoughts, beliefs and behaviours that are interfering with the individual’s functioning. It is not uncommon for a complete course of CBT to involve less than 20 sessions and occur over less than 6 months. However, in intractable and complex cases treatment may be ongoing for many years. As the reader shall discover, the stories that follow generally involve such individuals.
