Rumination-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression

From a leading clinician-researcher, this book presents an empirically tested approach for helping clients with severe and chronic depression by directly tackling negative rumination. Rumination-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (RFCBT) combines carefully adapted elements of CBT with imagery, visualization, and compassion-based techniques. The book provides everything needed to implement this 12-session approach, including numerous sample dialogues, a chapter-length case example, reflections and learning exercises for therapists, and 10 reproducible client handouts. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. Key Words/Subject Areas: anxiety disorders, behavioral activation, CBT, cognition, cognitive-behavioral therapy, depressive, functional analysis, interventions, major depression, metacognition, metacognitive, mood disorders, obsessions, psychotherapy, recurrent, relapse prevention, RFCBT, rumination, self-compassion, transdiagnostic, treatment manuals, worry Audience: Clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, mental health and pastoral counselors, and psychiatric nurses"

Machine generated contents note: I. Rumination Processes in Psychopathology and Treatment -- 1. Why a Treatment Targeting Rumination? -- 2. Understanding Rumination -- 3. Key Components and Principles of RFCBT -- II. Rumination-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy -- 4. Initial Assessment -- 5. Therapy Rationale and Goal Setting -- 6. Functional Analysis of Rumination -- 7. Choosing Treatment Interventions -- 8. Practice at Developing Interventions: Addressing Difficulties and Hurdles -- 9. Shifting Processing Style: Becoming Concrete and Specific -- 10. Shifting Processing Style: Absorption -- 11. Shifting Processing Style: Compassion -- III. Application and Extension of RFCBT -- 12. A Case of RFCBT from Beginning to End -- 13. Adaptations of RFCBT -- Appendix. Handouts -- References -- Index