The therapeutic relationship and alliance in short-term cognitive therapy.

2004 ◽  
pp. 95-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory F. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Short Term

Change in Defense Mechanisms During Short-Term Dynamic and Cognitive Therapy in Patients With Cluster C Personality Disorders

2011 ◽  
Vol 199 (9) ◽  
pp. 712-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pål-Ørjan Johansen ◽  
Teri S. Krebs ◽  
Martin Svartberg ◽  
Tore C. Stiles ◽  
Are Holen
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Cognitive Therapy ◽  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Short Term

Countertransference and the Therapeutic Relationship: A Cognitive Perspective

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. David Rudd ◽  
Thomas Joiner
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Cognitive Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Suicidal Patients

The current article discusses the potentially inappropriate application of psychodynamic constructs regarding the therapeutic relationship (i.e., transference-countertransference) to cognitive therapy, offering a discussion of the fundamental principles of cognitive therapy that are violated. The therapeutic belief system is defined and offered as an alternative conceptual framework for addressing therapeutic relationship variables in cognitive therapy and the ways in which it is more consistent with the fundamental principles of cognitive therapy are identified and discussed. Finally, application of the therapeutic belief system to the treatment of suicidal patients is provided as a clinical example. Potential implications for treatment and research are noted.

The Therapist's Dilemma: Be Sincere or Fake It?

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Morstyn
Keyword(s):  
Managed Care ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Corrective Emotional Experience ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Legal Problems

Objective: To examine the pressure on therapists to fake sincerity and the significance of genuine sincerity in psychotherapy. Conclusions: There are many reasons why therapists might fake sincerity. We live in a post-modern culture of dissimulation and ‘playing the game’ that puts a premium on faking sincerity. Manualised and scripted psycho-therapies encourage fake sincerity, as do the measurement requirements of EBM, and the short-term approach of Managed Care. Kohut's ‘corrective emotional experience’ of empathy reinforces benevolent faked sincerity. Studies demonstrate the importance of the therapist appearing warm and genuine but do not differentiate appearance from reality. Therapists may fear that true sincerity will lead to crossing boundaries, harming patients, being poorly judged or medico-legal problems. Nevertheless, if therapists aren't willing to strive for genuine sincerity, despite all the attendant risks and possible complications, then they deny their patients the opportunity of working through the difficulties of achieving sincerity in any human relationship. Moments of true mutual sincerity in psychotherapy are healing not only because of the insight achieved but also because they restore the damaged hope that sincerity is possible. Therapists who fake sincerity ultimately leave their patients feeling alone and colluding in a mutually fake therapeutic relationship.

Acute Cognitive Therapy in Reducing Suicide Risk Following a Presentation to an Emergency Department

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Anthony Catanese ◽  
Michael Stephen John ◽  
John Di Battista ◽  
David M. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Cognitive Therapy ◽  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Emergency Departments ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Therapy Program ◽  
Psychosocial Crisis

AbstractThe ACT (Acute Cognitive Therapy) Program was implemented as a patient follow-up initiative to respond to people presenting to emergency departments with suicidal behaviour or ideation, in a psychosocial crisis. Over 12 months 188 patients were referred to the program of which 160 attended at least one appointment and 109 completed the program. Pre- and postmeasures indicated that significant improvement occurred in those who completed the program, that improvements were maintained at 6 months and representation rates were reduced. Immediate short-term directed treatment appears beneficial in the short and medium term, and the rapidity and location of follow-up appears to promote compliance.

scholarly journals The Sheffield Cognitive Psychotherapy Training Course

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 78-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. D. Macaskill
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Therapy ◽  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Psychotherapy Training ◽  
Term Therapy ◽  
Basic Training ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Dysfunctional Cognitions ◽  
Training Course ◽  
The Past ◽  
Treatment Of Depression

This paper describes a basic training course in cognitive therapy for trainee psychiatrists on the Sheffield rotational scheme. Cognitive therapy, as represented by the work of Beck and Ellis, has emerged over the past decade as a potent therapeutic tool, particularly in the treatment of depression. It is a structured, directive, short-term therapy aimed at eliciting and modifying the dysfunctional cognitions which are hypothesised to play a central role in initiating and maintaining emotional disorders.

Unconscious processes in Aaron Beck’s cognitive theory: Reconstruction and discussion

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-242
Author(s):  
Monika Romanowska ◽  
Bartłomiej Dobroczyński
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Unconscious Processes ◽  
Founding Myth ◽  
Theory Reconstruction

The concept of the unconscious has always provoked controversy. While some psychologists treated it as a relic of metaphysics or a manifestation of psychoanalytic mysticism, others saw it as an important explanatory construct. At the heart of this conflict, there is the theory proposed by Aaron Beck, the originator of cognitive therapy. According to the founding myth, he rejected the concept of the dynamic unconscious to develop an evidence-based approach. The aim of this article is to reconstruct and analyze Beck’s understanding of the unconscious based on his published works and archival materials and to identify the values that guided his theoretical choices. We argue that Beck’s conceptualization of the unconscious ignores contradictory conscious and unconscious representations and attitudes and offers no systematic model of basic needs and the conflicts between them. We conclude that this stems from Beck’s attachment to the phenomenological understanding of the psyche, emphasis on humanism in the therapeutic relationship, fear of cognitive theory losing its distinctness, and caution in formulating theories.

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