Cognitive behaviour therapy is the leading psychological treatment for many psychiatric conditions, including anxiety, depression, obsessional disorders, and sexual dysfunction. This innovative book is a practical guide to using the therapy, covering each disorder individually. Particular attention is paid to overcoming problems encountered during treatment.

The development and principles of cognitive behavioural treatments; Cognitive behavioural assessment; Anxiety states; Phobic states; Obsessional disorders; Depression; Somatic problems; Eating disorders; Chronic psychiatric handicaps; Marital problems; Sexual dysfunctions; Problem solving; References; Index. Contributors: Gillian Butler, David M. Clark, Peter Cooper, Christopher Fairburn, Melanie Fennell, Alan E. Fruzzetti, John Hall, Keith Hawton, Neil Jacobsen, Joan Kirk, Paul M. Salkovskis, Karen B. Schmaling.

Keith Hawton and Paul. M. Salkovskis and Joan Kirk and David M. Clark

`... an excellent "hands-on" guide to the practice of cognitive-behavioural interventions. Of the various edited texts in existence, this is the most concrete and practical and likely will find good use in the libraries of beginning clinicians or therapists intending to expand their clinical interventions to include cognitive-behavioral therapies' Contemporary Psychology |d 18/11/1992 `There are several other books on the market that cover similar topics but this has to be seen as the market leader. It is easy to read, uniformly well written and the most comprehensive of the practical handbooks available. I fully recommend it.' British Medical Journal