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It is increasingly recognized that a significant number of individuals with personality disorders can benefit from therapy. In this new edition - based on the treatment of over a hundred patients with antisocial and borderline personality disorders - Kate Davidson demonstrates that clinicians using cognitive therapy can reduce a patient’s tendency to deliberately self-harm and to harm others; it also improves their psychological well-being. Case studies and therapeutic techniques are described as well as current evidence from research trials for this group of patients.Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders provides a thorough description of how to apply cognitive behavioural therapy to patients who are traditionally regarded as being difficult to treat: those with borderline personality disorders and those with antisocial personality disorders. The book contains detailed descriptions and strategies of how to:formulate a case within the cognitive model of personality disordersovercome problems encountered when treating personality disordered patientsunderstand how therapy may develop over a course of treatment.This clinician’s guide to cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of borderline and antisocial personality disorder will be essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical and counselling psychologists, therapists, mental health nurses, and students on associated training courses.

It is increasingly recognized that a significant number of individuals with personality disorders can benefit from therapy. In this new edition - based on the treatment of over a hundred patients with antisocial and borderline personality disorders - Kate Davidson demonstrates that clinicians using cognitive therapy can reduce a patient’s tendency to deliberately self-harm and to harm others; it also improves their psychological well-being. Case studies and therapeutic techniques are described as well as current evidence from research trials for this group of patients.Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders provides a thorough description of how to apply cognitive behavioural therapy to patients who are traditionally regarded as being difficult to treat: those with borderline personality disorders and those with antisocial personality disorders. The book contains detailed descriptions and strategies of how to:formulate a case within the cognitive model of personality disordersovercome problems encountered when treating personality disordered patientsunderstand how therapy may develop over a course of treatment.This clinician’s guide to cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of borderline and antisocial personality disorder will be essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical and counselling psychologists, therapists, mental health nurses, and students on associated training courses.

Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders provides a thorough description of how to apply cognitive behavioural therapy to patients who are traditionally regarded as being difficult to treat, focussing on those with borderline personality disorders and antisocial personality disorders. This revised third edition expands substantially on previous editions, incorporating new developments in theory and practice in the field. It provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to applying CBTpd, including clinical vignettes to illustrate how the therapy is applied. CBTpd takes a developmental perspective as childhood trauma and adversity are frequently associated with these disorders. This edition is informed by decades of training hundreds of clinicians in the UK and internationally, responding to the challenges they commonly encounter in working with patients with personality disorders. The new edition provides clinicians with clear and detailed examples of how to manage complex problems, including how to develop a narrative formulation that takes a developmental perspective, as well as guidance on other challenges such as managing the therapeutic relationship whilst keeping therapy focused and the patient engaged in therapy.This guide will be essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical and counselling psychologists, therapists, mental health nurses, and trainees in CBT.

Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders provides a thorough description of how to apply cognitive behavioural therapy to patients who are traditionally regarded as being difficult to treat, focussing on those with borderline personality disorders and antisocial personality disorders. This revised third edition expands substantially on previous editions, incorporating new developments in theory and practice in the field. It provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to applying CBTpd, including clinical vignettes to illustrate how the therapy is applied. CBTpd takes a developmental perspective as childhood trauma and adversity are frequently associated with these disorders. This edition is informed by decades of training hundreds of clinicians in the UK and internationally, responding to the challenges they commonly encounter in working with patients with personality disorders. The new edition provides clinicians with clear and detailed examples of how to manage complex problems, including how to develop a narrative formulation that takes a developmental perspective, as well as guidance on other challenges such as managing the therapeutic relationship whilst keeping therapy focused and the patient engaged in therapy.This guide will be essential reading for psychiatrists, clinical and counselling psychologists, therapists, mental health nurses, and trainees in CBT.

In many countries there has been an alarming increase in rates of suicide and self-harm, yet the stigma attached to these difficulties often leads to sub-optimal care.Life After Self-Harm: A Guide to the Future is written for individuals who have deliberately harmed themselves. Developed through a major research project the contents of the manual have been informed and shaped by many users and expert professionals. Illustrated with multiple case-histories, it teaches users important skills:for understanding and evaluating self-harmfor keeping safe in crisisfor dealing with seemingly insolvable problemsfor developing coping strategiesfor re-connecting with life.Health workers who regularly come into contact with individuals who have self-harmed will find the wealth of practical advice in this book extremely valuable for recommendation to patients either as a self-help book, or in the context of brief therapy.