Using CBT in General Practice provides GPs with an overview of the basic principles of CBT and shows how these principles can be applied within a typical 10 minute consultation. The book is written in a user-friendly, interactive and practical style and focuses on realistic ways to make CBT work by helping patients to make positive changes to their lives.

Key features include:

Case examples to highlight how the techniques can be applied in practice for patients with particular problems or clinical conditions.

Problem-solving sections describe how to manage time constraints.

A new consultation model that can be used to implement CBT in general practice

Overviews of the major clinical psychological conditions that can be treated using CBT

Using CBT in General Practice uniquely provides the practical advice needed to implement CBT within the time constraints of a busy practice - it is therefore essential reading for all GPs who must now offer CBT as a treatment option. As this is a practical manual and not just a book of theory, it will also appeal to other professionals involved in the management of patients with psychological problems such as practice nurses, health visitors, community psychiatric nurses, practice counsellors and palliative care doctors.

From the foreword:

"I wish Lee David's book had been around 20 years ago; because then I could have helped a lot more people and had a lot more fun....I wish every GP would read it; because then they'd be able to help a lot more people and have a lot more fun."
Roger Neighbour MA DSc FRCP PRCGP

Foreword by Roger Neighbour, President of the RCGP

1. Setting the scene: understanding what CBT can offer
2. Adapting CBT for general practice
3. Basic principles of CBT
4. Working through the stages of the cognitive-behavioural model (CBM)
5. Consultation skills for the CBM
6. Understanding 'heartsink' repsonses
7. Coping with negative thoughts
8. Changing unhelpful behaviour
9. Overcoming practical problems: problem-solving approaches
10. Deeper levels of belief: core beliefs and rules
11. Anxiety and panic attacks
12. Depression
13. Low self-esteem
14. Health anxiety
15. Psychological aspects of chronic physical disease
16. Further reading and other CBT resources

Index