Agnieszka Popiel and Ewa Pragłowska
Cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Theory and practice
 Publisher’s reviews: Professor Lidia Grzesiuk, Professor Grzegorz Sędek
Place of publication: Warsaw
Year of publication: 2008
ISBN: 978-83-61269-04-5
Product dimensions: 165×235 mm
Number of pages: 307
Binding: paperback
Price: 42,00 PLN
The book by Agnieszka Popiel and Ewa Pragłowska is the first Polish handbook of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. The authors, both specialists in CBT, give a thorough review of the theoretical assumptions and present models of selected disorders, therapeutic principles, cognitive and behavioral techniques and the results of evidence-based CBT outcome studies. This excellent academic handbook is a mine of information for psychotherapists, psychologists, medical professionals and psychotherapy trainees. It also includes a large glossary of English-Polish terms which will be a great help to translators of publications on cognitive-behavioral therapy.
“As in any form of art, skill must be acquired through practice. The book will be an excellent roadmap for those interested in climbing the heights of CBT, but remember the map is not the trip. Those who dare up those slopes will be rewarded by a most interesting journey, if aided by the adequate sherpa.”
From the Foreword by Professor Eduardo Keegan
“This is a user-friendly handbook of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for the Polish reader. Its contents include: (1) the theoretical sources of cognitive-behavioral therapy, (2) basic information for practitioners planning to use the method in their psychotherapeutic practice and (3) empirical data from research on this form of psychotherapy. […] This book stands out positively among other known works on the topic in this country.”
From the review by Professor Lidia Grzesiuk
“In addition to its high substantive merit […] this book has excellent didactic merit. First, it gives a very competent description of cognitive therapy based on state-of-the-art literature and abundant clinical achievements of the most distinguished Polish experts in this direction of psychotherapy. Second, the contents of this handbook correspond well with teaching standards for such academic disciplines as clinical psychology, psychiatry or special education. The entire book can be included in the reading canon for these disciplines.”
From the review by Professor Grzegorz Sędek
About the authors:
Agnieszka Popiel
doctor of medical sciences, psychiatrist, psychotherapist (PTTPB, SITCC), psychotherapy supervisor (PTTPB).
She began her clinical practice at Psychiatry Department II, Warsaw Medical Academy with Professor Z. Bizoń. She is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow and is a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Cognitive Studies (ICACS) at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. She initiated the founding and is a founding member of the Polish Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy (PTTPB), chairwoman of the Association’s executive board and representative of the Association at the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies.
Ewa Pragłowska
doctor of the humanities (Polish Academy of Sciences, PhD – University of Toronto), specialist in clinical psychology, psychotherapist (PTTPB and PTP, SITCC), psychotherapy supervisor (PTTPB).
She began her clinical practice at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw with Professor S. Pużyński. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Psychiatry II, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw until 2005 and has taught at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw since 1997. Member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Cognitive Studies (ICACS) at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Cofounder of the Polish Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy, currently secretary of the Research and Didactic Committee.
The two authors have been cooperating since 1998. They both studied cognitive-behavioral therapy under various specialists in Italy and the USA. Certified by Società Italiana di Terapia Comportamentale e Cognitive (SITCC). They have been involved with cognitive-behavioral therapy in clinical and research practice, organizational work and teaching for many years. They have written many scientific publications, scientific publications for the general public and congress papers and have also edited Polish translations of books on CBT. -They are in charge of postgraduate studies in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Within the framework of the Interdisciplinary Center for Behavior Genetic Research at the University of Warsaw they conduct efficacy/effectiveness research on CBT for PTSD.
Contents
Foreword by Eduardo Keegan
Authors’ introduction
Part I. The theoretical assumptions of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy. Development of cognitive and behavioral therapies in Poland and abroad
Chapter 1. Cognitive-behavioral therapy: explaining the terminology
Chapter 2. Historical overview. Cognitive-behavioral therapy vis-à-vis cognitive psychology and behaviorism
Cognitive-behavioral therapy worldwide
Cognitive-behavioral therapy in Europe
Cognitive-behavioral therapy in Poland
Cognitive-behavioral therapy and the integration of psychotherapy
Chapter 3. The theoretical assumptions of cognitive-behavioral therapy
The Ellis and Beck models – cognitive processes in clinical practice
Automatic thoughts
Cognitive schemas
Cognitive distortions
The cognitive specificity of psychopathological states and models of mental disorders
Cognitive models of affective disorders – depression
Cognitive models of anxiety disorders
Cognitive models of personality disorders
Part II. The practice of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy
Chapter 4. Characteristic features of the therapeutic process in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy
Defining the goal of therapy, the target problem and solution directions
Method selection based on the dynamically-evolved conceptualization of the patient’s problem
Present-centered approach
Structuring the therapeutic process and each individual session
The therapeutic relationship
Patient-therapist cooperation
Psycho-education
Therapeutic techniques
Setting time limits on the therapy
Equipping the patient with knowledge and self-therapy instruments
Chapter 5. Cognitive-behavioral therapy step one. The diagnosis
Problem conceptualization and clinical diagnosis
Defining the problem (“what?”)
Problem conceptualization level one (“how?”)
Problem conceptualization level two (“why?”)
Therapeutic goals
Record of differences
Chapter 6. Cognitive-behavioral therapy step two. Goal realization
Therapeutic intervention planning
The therapeutic contract and socialization to treatment
Therapeutic techniques
Cognitive techniques
Behavioral techniques
Homework assignments
Chapter 7. Cognitive-behavioral therapy step three. Achievement testing and reinforcing
Relapse prevention
Therapy outcome testing
SOS or on resistance in cognitive-behavioral therapy, for example
Therapy conclusion
Chapter 8. Cognitive-behavioral therapist skills
Part III. Empirical testing
Chapter 9. Empirical data. Evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence
Science, practice, politics
Evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence
Psychotherapy research measures of change
Psychotherapy research observations of mechanisms of change
Psychotherapy outcome stability
Generalizability of research findings on clinical practice
Conclusion. The contexts of cognitive-behavioral therapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy and other therapeutic approaches
“Shallow” or “deep”?
Superior or inferior?
Narrow and specific or global?
Modifying patient thinking in cognitive-behavioral therapy – target or means?
Belief change and the question of relativism
Cognitive-behavioral therapy and the question of spirituality
Some ethical aspects of the patient – CBT therapist encounter – the limits of the therapeutic relationship
Recommended literature for therapists
Bibliotherapy. Selected readings for patient homework
Appendix. Forms for use in practice
English-Polish glossary
References
Name index
Subject index |
