Chapter
Part I. Why Do People Suffer?
Chapter 2. Oh, Behave!: The Behavioral System and How It Can Go Wrong
What Makes a Behavior Maladaptive?
Where Do Behaviors Come From?
Chapter 3. Stinkin’ Thinkin’: The Cognitive System and How It Can Go Wrong
What Makes Cognition Maladaptive?
Automatic Cognitive Processes
Semi-Automatic Cognitive Processes
Effortful Cognitive Processes
Chapter 4. I Got a Bad Feeling about This: The Emotional System and How It Can Go Wrong
What Makes Emotions Maladaptive?
Where Do Emotions Come From?
Chapter 5. Creating Meaty Conceptualizations
Putting the Puzzle Together
Turning Meaty Conceptualizations into Treatment Plans
Section A: How We Engage the Client
Chapter 6. Therapy Assessment and Case Formulation
Collaborative Model Building
Making a Relationship That Works
More CBTish Aspects of the Therapeutic Relationship
Section B. Behavior-Level Interventions
Chapter 8. Adjusting the Triggers: Situation Selection and Stimulus Control
Positive Cues, Negative Cues
Situation Selection: Choosing Your Environment
Stimulus Control: Manipulating Your Environment
Chapter 9. Contingency Management in Therapy
Behavior and Its Contingencies in Therapy
Do More of That: Increasing Desired Behavior
Do Less of That: Decreasing Undesired Behavior
Preparing for Contingency Management
Contingency Management in Action: Prompt–Praise–Ignore
Contingency Management in Action: The Token Economy
Contingency Management in Action: Self-Control Strategies
Contingency Management in Action: Reinforcing Clinically Relevant Behavior in Session
Contingency Management in Action: Changing Aversive Contingency Patterns in Couples and Families
Using Schedules of Reinforcement in Therapy
Sticky Points in Reinforcement
Chapter 10. Direct Behavioral Prescriptions and Graded Task Assignment
Avoidance in Its Many Forms
Developing an Exposure Hierarchy
Eliminating Safety Behaviors
How Long Should Exposures Be?
Variety and Repetition Are Critical
Getting in the Right Zone
Chapter 12. Behavioral Skill Training
Section C. Cognitive-Level Interventions
Chapter 13. What’s the Client Thinking?
What Thoughts Are We Looking For?
Using Socratic Questioning to Elicit Interpretations
Using Role Playing to Elicit Interpretations
Using Checklists to Identify Interpretations
Chapter 14. Restructuring Thoughts
Helping the Client Reach, Accept, and Rehearse a More Adaptive Way of Thinking
Chapter 15. Leave Them Thoughts Alone
The Art of Not Challenging Thoughts
Chapter 16. Going Deeper with Core Beliefs
Restructuring Core Beliefs
Chapter 17. Addressing Information-Processing Biases
Section D. Emotion-Level Interventions
Chapter 18. Modulating Emotion
Emotional Response Modulation as an Emotion Regulation Strategy
Chapter 19. Distress Tolerance
Is Calming Down Overrated?
Distress Tolerance as a Potential Target
Emotion Regulation as a Potential Target
Teaching Clients to Regulate Emotions
Part III. Putting It All Together
Chapter 20. Putting It All Together: William’s CBT
Initial Treatment Planning
Psychoeducation and Model Building
Tracking William’s Progress
Chapter 21. Putting It All Together: Anna’s CBT
Initial Treatment Planning
Psychoeducation and Model Building
Chapter 22. Putting It All Together: Elizabeth’s CBT
Motivational Interviewing
Initial Treatment Planning
Psychoeducation and Model Building
Tracking Elizabeth’s Progress
Emotion Identification Training
A Wrinkle in the Relationship
Problem-Solving Training and Assertion Training
Appendix A. Further Reading
Appendix B. Tools for the Clinician