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Author Wessler, Richard L.

Title Succeeding with difficult clients : applications of cognitive appraisal therapy / Richard Wessler, Sheenah Hankin, Jonathan Stern.

Publication Info. San Diego, Calif. ; London : Academic, [2001]
©2001

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  616.89142 W515S    Check Shelf
Description ix, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Practical resources for the mental health professional
Practical resources for the mental health professional.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cognitive appraisal theory. What makes difficult clients difficult -- Motivation and attachment -- Basic CAT concepts: personotypic affect, justifying cognitions, and security-seeking behaviors -- Patterns of personality -- The difficult client revisited -- Cognitive appraisal therapy. The CAT assessment -- Interventions based on the CAT model -- Affect-based interventions -- Additional interventions involving cognition, behavior, adjunctive medication, and therapeutic impasses -- The process of CAT (case studies) -- Applications of CAT. CAT with personality-disordered clients -- Working with borderline personality-disordered clients -- Couples therapy -- CAT group therapy -- Working with "difficult" parents.
Subject Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -- methods.
Patient Compliance -- psychology.
Defense Mechanisms.
Patients -- psychology.
Personality.
Professional-Patient Relations.
Cognitive therapy -- Practice.
Client-centered psychotherapy -- Practice.
Counselor and client.
Behavior therapy -- Practice.
Added Author Hankin, Sheenah.
Stern, Jonathan.
ISBN 012744470X alkaline paper
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