Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood

Epub Edition ISBN: 9781462505548; Kindle Edition ISBN: 9781462505555

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Padesky, Christine A.

This book is a companion guide to
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think
by Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky (Guilford Press, 1995; ISBN-13: 978-0-89862-128-0).

Many photographers travel with only a wide-angle and a telephoto lens. A wide-angle lens allows for a full-horizon view of any scene. A telephoto lens allows the photographer to either bring a distant point closer or view something nearby in great detail. As therapists, we use both wide-angle and telephoto perspectives with every client we see.

This week we may see people who are depressed, anxious, struggling with relationship problems, recovering from serious trauma, confronting substance abuse, or adjusting to another type of change. To be effective, we must be able to understand, conceptualize, and know how to skillfully apply treatment plans for the broad spectrum of human problems in increasingly brief periods of time.

We need the perspective of a wide-angle lens to consider a range of options, and the power of a telephoto lens to bring treatment goals into proximate focus. This book shows how the client treatment manual
Mind Over Mood
can assist in accomplishing these therapy tasks. Chapters in this therapist guide offer suggestions for integrating the treatment manual into therapy, outline strategies for helping clients set therapy goals, and provide directions for using the treatment manual with a variety of client problems in a variety of treatment settings.

Most therapists are familiar with the cognitive therapy approach. Cognitive therapy is the fastest growing form of psychotherapy. Its rapid growth has been attributed to its clarity, proven effectiveness, and philosophical “fit” with the information-processing Zeitgeist of the last two decades. Further, there has been a growing demand by consumers and third-party payors for brief yet effective therapies. Cognitive therapy successfully meets these demands.
Mind Over Mood
makes these psychotherapy advances available to more clients. This therapist guide teaches how to use
Mind Over Mood
and individualize it for each client for maximum therapy effectiveness.

When we finished writing
Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think,
our editor asked us to write a book for clinicians describing how to use the client manual in therapy. Since I had been teaching cognitive therapy training courses for therapists for more than a decade, I agreed to write most of this book which shows how to integrate the client manual with cognitive therapy treatment protocols. Dennis Greenberger agreed to write chapters on group therapy and inpatient therapy, two areas in which he has extensive clinical expertise.

The material in this book was derived from workshops I’ve taught since 1978. Throughout this time, Aaron T. Beck has been a generous mentor and friend, inviting me to conduct many workshops with him early in my career so that I could follow my heart and become a near full-time teacher of cognitive therapy. Since 1981, Kathleen Mooney has been my partner in development of cognitive therapy training programs. Her clinical acuity, wise counsel, and creative insights inform and enrich every project I do. Her ideas are interwoven with my own and appear throughout this book.

Many of the researchers and clinicians cited and referenced in this clinician’s guide are personal friends as well as colleagues. Without the collective research and theoretical and clinical talent of this group, cognitive therapy would not be as effective and this book could not have been written. Portions of particular chapters were given to colleagues with special expertise in those areas. Paul Salkovskis reviewed portions of the anxiety chapter. Jan Scott provided useful suggestions and references for the depression and inpatient chapters. Nancy Waite-O’Brien suggested concrete ways
Mind Over Mood
could help solve problems faced in substance abuse treatment. Patrice Yasuda offered feedback and references regarding use of cognitive therapy with people of various cultures. My colleagues at the Center for Cognitive Therapy, Kathleen Mooney, Marlyn Osborn, Karen Simon, and Gail Simpson, helped fine tune many chapters. Camp Cognitive Therapy III participants reviewed the brief therapy chapter. Due to tight time deadlines, no one other than our editor, Dennis, and myself read the entire manuscript prior to its final stages. Any errors or deficiencies remaining in this text are our responsibility.

My own excitement regarding this book was matched by that of our editor, Kitty Moore. During this past year, Kitty has been supportive, constructively critical, and creative in her contributions. I deeply appreciate her humor, patience, and good counsel throughout this project. In order to write this book in the six month time frame requested, I needed to stop most of my other professional activities. Special thanks to Karen Simon, Director of Clinical Operations at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Newport Beach, who accepted additional administrative and clinical responsibilities so I could spend days on end at the computer.

Thanks also to friends and family who tolerated my social absences, fatigue, and detailed book discussions over the past year. All offered good humor and encouraging conversation when my spirits flagged. Two of these friends gave me a notebook computer so I could literally write everywhere. I thank Anne, Brian, Barbara, Bill, Bob, Dick, Donella, Gillian, Helen, Marc, Matt, Rose, Rosanne, Sharon, Sue, Tim, and my parents. And especially Kathleen, whose unwavering love and unfailing support and humor endured throughout the most extraordinary circumstances.

And finally, I thank you, the reader. Anticipating your needs and questions kept me up at night and also helped me maintain enthusiasm for this project. I hope this book helps you share our vision for how
Mind Over Mood
can enhance your clinical work.

C
HRISTINE
A. P
ADESKY
, June 1995

My contributions to this book were influenced by many people. Art Freeman deserves special recognition for sparking my interest in cognitive therapy. Judy Beck and Aaron T. Beck later fueled that spark and provided ongoing encouragement for this project.

In addition to her formidable editing skills, Kitty Moore guided and counseled me throughout the writing of my chapters. Her contributions cannot be overestimated.

Diedre Greenberger’s love and support helped me see this project through to completion. Elysa and Alanna’s spirit and energy provide focus, perspective, and meaning to my life.

D
ENNIS
G
REENBERGER,
June 1995