How to Become a More Effective CBT Therapist

How to Become a More Effective CBT Therapist explores effective ways for therapists to move beyond competence to 'metacompetence', remaining true to the core principles of CBT while adapting therapeutic techniques to address the everyday challenges of real-world clinical work. This innovative text explores how to:

• Work most effectively with fundamental therapeutic factors such as the working alliance and diversity;
• Tackle complexities such as co-morbidity, interpersonal dynamics and lack of progress in therapy;
• Adapt CBT when working with older people, individuals with long-term conditions (LTCs), intellectual disabilities, personality disorders and psychosis;
• Develop as a therapist through feedback, supervision, self-practice and training.

Adrian Whittington is Director of Education and Training at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. A Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Adrian is passionate about enabling wider access to evidence-based psychological therapies. Adrian was a director of postgraduate training programmes in CBT before taking up his current role. He works clinically with people with anxiety disorders and depression, particularly following trauma, and teaches on the postgraduate CBT training programme at the University of Sussex, UK.

Nick Grey is Joint Clinical Director and Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT), South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners. He is actively involved in disseminating cognitive behavioural therapies, trying to ensure that the most effective treatments are applied in routine care. A BABCP-accredited practitioner, supervisor and trainer, Nick is also Honorary Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry and editor of A Casebook of Cognitive Therapy for Traumatic Stress Reactions (2009).