CBT is one of the most widely practiced therapeutic approaches in the world — and one of the most misunderstood. In this article, Dr. John Ludgate addresses two of the most common misconceptions clinicians and clients alike hold about CBT.
While CBT is now well established as treatment for many disorders and has been widely disseminated, Positive Psychology and, in particular, how this approach can be helpful with psychological problems is less familiar to many therapists. The therapy approach which has been labelled Positive Psychotherapy (Rashid and Se...
Cognitive Behavior Therapy first emerged in the late 1970s and in 1980s as a new treatment approach for depression (Beck et al 1979) and anxiety (Beck et al 1985). This was an exciting advent of a highly structure, collaborative and short-term treatment (12-16 sessions) for these disorders and an impressive literature...
Check out this free video preview into Dr. John Ludgate's upcoming CBT series! Dr. Ludgate discusses the importance of understanding the CBT model for effective interventions and client education, emphasizing that CBT case conceptualization guides treatments by breaking down problems into thinking, emotions,...
I have worked as a psychotherapist for several decades in many different professional settings. While there have been great advances in our therapeutic interventions, up to recently there was not much attention paid more to the issue of self-care for mental health professionals. This in some ways still is a somewhat ne...
Many therapists who are familiar with CBT and deliver it individually are somewhat daunted seeing individuals or couples to deal with their relationship issues. Perhaps, they did not receive training in this field or feel they need to refer these clients to therapist who are more specialized in these issues. CBT has be...
In psychotherapy research in general, not a lot of attention has been paid to the problems of relapse which is common after therapy in substance abuse, recurrent depression, anxiety and more chronic conditions but there are some recent developments in this field which are to be welcomed. CBT has been found to be a...
Over several decades, what we now describe as health anxiety was termed hypochondriasis in several editions of the DSM (initially classified as a neurosis in early editions of DSM, in later editions up to 2013, and later issues classified under Somatoform Disorder). Also, this term is used in the common language. What...
Integrating CBT and Other Effective Therapeutic Methods
John Ludgate, Ph.D.
John Ludgate, Ph.D.
John Ludgate, Ph.D.
John Ludgate, Ph.D.
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