Most people with eating disorders struggle to find an effective therapy that they can access quickly. Brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Non-Underweight Patients: CBT-T for Eating Disorders presents a new form of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) that is brief and effective, allowing more patients to get the help that they need. CBT is a strongly supported therapy for all adults and many adolescents with eating disorders. This 10-session approach to CBT (CBT-T) is suitable for all eating disorder patients who are not severely underweight, helping adults and young adults to overcome their eating disorder. Using CBT-T with patients will allow clinicians to treat people in less time, shorten waiting lists, and see patients more quickly when they need help. It is a flexible protocol, which fits to the patient rather than making the patient fit to the therapy. Brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Non-Underweight Patients provides an evidence-based protocol that can be delivered by junior or senior clinicians, helping patients to recover and go on to live a healthy life. This book will appeal to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, dietitians, nurses, and other professionals working with eating disorders.
Author(s): Glenn Waller, Hannah M. Turner, Madeleine Tatham, Victoria A. Mountford, Tracey D. Wade
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 222
Contents
Foreword
How to use this book and the associated materials
1 The background to CBT-T and its evidence base
2 Principles of CBT-T, and how to apply them in routine practice
3 The CBT-T protocol checklist, and how to employ it
4 The critical first session
5 Phase 1 – Exposure, nutrition, and repairing the ‘broken’ cognitive link
6 Session 4 – Reviewing progress and deciding whether to continue
7 Phase 2 – Addressing cognitions regarding food, eating, and weight, using behavioural experiments and cognitivere structuring
8 Phase 3 – Working with emotional triggers and core beliefs
9 Phase 4 – Working with body image
10 Phase 5 – Relapse prevention
11 Follow-up as an active part of therapy
12 Patients’ experiences of CBT-T, and the roles of clinicians and supervisors
Conclusions
Appendix 1: CBT-T protocol (version 3)
Appendix 2: Basic food diary
Appendix 3: ED-15 questionnaire and scoring key
Appendix 4: Information sheet for patients and their families and friends
Appendix 5: REAL Food Guide for CBT-T (Susan Hart & Caitlin McMaster)
Appendix 6: Questionnaires to give to the patient at each session
Appendix 7: Patient handout on emotions and beliefs that can trigger eating behaviours
Appendix 8: Extended food diary, assessing triggers to behaviours
Appendix 9: Template for therapy blueprint
References
Index
