Basic Theory, Development and Current Status of CBT

1 Basic Theory, Development and Current Status of CBTI ntroductionIn this chapter we want to introduce you to some of the essential background to cogni-tive behaviour therapy (CBT), including the Basic theory and the Development of the approach. We start here because CBT is sometimes criticised for being a rather simple-minded cookbook approach to therapy : if the client has this problem then use that technique. However, the approach we take in this book is based not on the mechani-cal application of techniques but on understanding: understanding your patient, under-standing CBT theory, and bringing the two together in a formulation (see Chapter 4). You should already have some ideas about understanding people, based on your clinical and personal experience. This chapter will start you on the road to understanding CBT further clarification. Talking about CBT as if it were a single therapy is mislead-ing.

current state, an appreciation of how CBT developed can help us to understand its modern form. Modern CBT has two main influences: first, behaviour therapy as devel-oped by Wolpe and others in the 1950s and 1960s (Wolpe, 1958); and second, the cog-nitive therapy approach developed by A.T. Beck, beginning in the 1960s but becoming

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