Innovations in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ─ Strategic Interventions for Creative Practice

Innovations in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy provides clinicians with a powerful arsenal of contemporary, creative, and innovative strategic interventions for use in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The volume begins with one of the most sophisticated available analyses of the evolution of CBT, from its first applications to depression in the 1960s and 1970s through its most modern uses. Each subsequent chapter focuses on a specific CBT strategy and describes both the traditional applications of these strategies and innovative applications. Each chapter also includes directions for future research to evaluate these innovative applications, as well as other creative ways the strategies could be applied in clinical practice. Throughout the book clinicians will find empirical research to back up recommended strategies, and they’ll be able to turn to the book’s website for valuable handouts, worksheets, and other downloadable tools.

Amy Wenzel, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, owner of Wenzel Consulting, LLC, clinical assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, adjunct faculty member at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, speaker’s bureau member of Cross Country Education, and affiliate at the Postpartum Stress Center. She lectures throughout North America on the delivery of CBT for depression, anxiety, suicidality, and perinatal mental health and currently divides her time between writing and research, training and supervision, and clinical practice.