Description
Book SynopsisThis text presents and critically evaluates the scientific and empirical status of Beck's revised cognitive theory and therapy of depression, and discusses future directions for it. This work documents the past, present, and future of this treatment strategy.
Trade Review"impressive volume ..will be invaluable to researchers indepression" (Behaviour Research & Therapy, No.39, 2001)
Table of ContentsDepressive Symptoms and Disorders: Diagnostic and ConceptualConsiderations.
The Origins of Cognitive Theory and Therapy of Depression: AHistorical Overview.
The Philosophical and Theoretical Basis of Cognitive Theory.
The Cognitive Theory of Depression.
Descriptive Hypotheses: Negative Cognition in Depression.
Descriptive Hypotheses: The Role of Negative Cognition inDepression.
Descriptive Hypotheses: Selective Information Processing inDepression.
Cognitive Vulnerability: Empirical Status of the StabilityHypothesis.
Cognitive Vulnerability: Empirical Status of the Diathesis-StressHypotheses.
Cognitive Vulnerability: Empirical Status of the SecondaryHypotheses.
Cognitive Theory of Depression: Overview and FutureDirections.
References.
Indexes.
