Assessment in cognitive therapy

This volume brings together leading experts to explore the state of the art of cognitive clinical assessment and identify cutting-edge approaches of interest to clinicians and researchers. The book highlights fundamental problems concerning the validity of assessments that are widely used in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Key directions for further research and development are identified. Updated cognitive assessment methods are described in detail, with particular attention to transdiagnostic treatment, evidence-based practice, cognitive case formulation, and imagery-based techniques

Cognitive clinical assessment : contributions and impediments to progress / Clark & Brown -- Better the devil you know? A conceptual critique of endorsement methods in cognitive research and practice / Brown & Clark -- Production-based assessment in cognitive-behavioral therapy / Haaga & Solomon -- Imagery-based cognitive-behavioral assessment / Hales, Blackwell, Di Simplicio, Iyadurai, Young & Holmes -- Assessment of cognitive vulnerability to psychopathology : issues in theory and practice / Dozois, Evraire & Hayden -- Implementing an evidence-based approach to cognitive-behavioral assessment / Hunsley & Elliott -- Dimensionality in cognitive-behavioral assessment / Uliaszek, Alden & zinbarg -- The cognitive content-specificity hypothesis : contributions to diagnosis and assessment / Baranoff & Oei -- Transdiagnostic cognitive assessment and case formulation for anxiety : a new approach / Smith, Ratcliff & Norton -- Beyond DSM diagnosis : the pros and cons of cognitive case formulation / Bieling & Key -- Toward a validity framework for cognitive behavioral therapy self-report assessment / Hawkes & Brown -- Enhancing measurement validation in cognitive-clinical research with stru…