Jesse H. Wright, Norton Psychiatric Clinic, Louisville Ky.
Aaron T. Beck, MD, is the founder of cognitive therapy, University
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania,
and President Emeritus of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior
Therapy. Dr. Beck is the recipient of numerous awards, including
the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award, the American
Psychological Association (APA) Lifetime Achievement Award, the
American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Service Award, the
Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Research in
Neuropsychiatry, and the Institute of Medicine's Sarnat
International Prize in Mental Health and Gustav O. Lienhard Award.
"All of us who work in inpatient psychiatry have wondered how best
to reorganize our units in response to ever-shortening lengths of
stay and demands for increased efficiency and efficacy. This book
provides an answer that I found complete and compelling. Cognitive
theory and practice are the perfect complement to an inpatient
medical model . The various chapters provide the rationale and nuts
and bolts for creating a cognitively informed milieu and applying
cognitive therapy to the special needs of different types of
inpatients. My guess is that this book will become a powerful
influence on inpatient psychiatry." --Allen Frances MD, Chair of
Psychiatry, Duke University "With the growing importance of
short-term treatment, even for severely ill patients, this volume
is an extremely rich, clinically valuable guide to the cognitive
treatment of inpatients with diverse psychiatric conditions and to
the development of a cognitive inpatient milieu. It draws on years
of actual inpatient treatment experience and addresses such
practical issues as how to conduct group or family cognitive
therapy, cognitive treatment of general medical patients, elderly
depressed alcoholic, eating disordered, and chronically ill
patients. This book provides a guide for the roles of the
therapist, physician, nurse, and occupational therapists. The case
vignettes make it both extremely informative and easy to read. This
volume provides a coherent, synthetic approach to inpatients using
the cognitive model and techniques. It should be essential reading
for all disciplines involved in inpatient care." --A. John Rush,
MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas "An
excellent book which will be indispensable to anyone wishing to
apply cognitive therapy in inpatient settings. The authors provide
admirably clear accounts of how to create a cognitive milieu; train
staff; identify suitable patients; monitor progress; and use the
techniques of cognitive therapy with the wide range of populations
and problems seen in inpatient psychiatry. Full of clinical
illustrations and sound advice, this book offers a much needed and
exciting new perspective for working with inpatients." --David M.
Clark, D.Phil. Oxford University "Cognitive therapy in inpatient
psychiatry increasingly makes sense, given its demonstrated
efficacy in outpatient clinical trials and beginning evidence of
efficacy with inpatients, its comprehensibility to staff from a
variety of disciplines, and its short-term, target-focused nature
that fits well with the current movement toward decreased length of
stay. This approach is likely to be increasingly used, and the
present volume can serve as an extremely valuable handbook for the
development of cognitive therapy inpatient programs. I now that I
will rely on it heavily in training psychology interns and
psychiatry residents." --Clive J. Robbins, Ph.D., Duke University
Medical Center, in a review for Depression "An excellent book which
will be indispensable to anyone wishing to apply cognitive therapy
in inpatient settings. The authors provide admirably clear accounts
of how to create a cognitive milieu; train staff; identify suitable
patients; monitor progress; and use the techniques of cognitive
therapy with the wide range of populations and problems seen in
inpatient psychiatry. Full of clinical illustrations and sound
advice this book offers a much needed and exciting new perspective
for working with inpatients." --David M. Clark, Oxford
University
"This is a practical and scholarly work that can be used as a
treatment manual for inpatient cognitive therapy programs and for
graduate courses in cognitive therapy." --"Contemporary
Psychology"
"Definitely an interesting book, which provides new clinical
insights for those who work in hospital settings....A good
collection of often stimulating papers....worthy of attention,
depending on one's specific clinical interests." --"Psychotherapy
and Psychosomatics"
"Well written...This is an excellent handbook for therapists
treating various types of inpatient problems with cognitive
therapy." --"Readings"
"Although cognitive therapy has been used extensively with
outpatients, this book is the first programmatic description of its
use in inpatient settings....The proliferation of inpatient
cognitive therapy units speaks to the timeliness of this text.
There is clearly a need to systematically develop and assess the
psychotherapeutic interactions that form the basis of the inpatient
milieu. These descriptions of inpatient cognitive therapy are a
major advance toward this end." --"Hospital and Community
Psychiatry"
""Cognitive Therapy with Inpatients" is a clearly written,
comprehensive presentation of both the theoretical foundations and
practical applications of this approach with more severely ill
patients...Clinicians and family members alike will value the
cogent presentations of theoretical issues along with clear
examples of how CT can be applied within different modalities with
a wide range of patient populations...In clear, practical terms the
book then describes the use of CT with inpatients individual,
group, and family modalities...The editors are not interested
inmerely putting forth a theoretical model. Rather, they've put
together what is in effect a concise, highly accessible manual of
cognitive therapy...The volume is, therefore, a valuable manual for
clinicians interested in expanding their treatment strategies as
well as family members who want to learn more about the development
of hospital psychiatry and the efficacy of cognitive therapy....a
valuable contribution to the treatment of severely ill people."
--"Innovations & Research"
.,.".This book provides a very good overview of the use and
development of cognitive-therapy with inpatient treatment milieus."
--"Canadian Journal of Psychiatry"
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