CBT Skills Workbook: Practical Exercises and Worksheets to Promote Change - Paperback

by Barry M. Gregory (Author)

Contains over 100 of the top hands-on practical worksheets and exercises for integrating CBT!

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the fastest-growing psychotherapy in the world today, largely because it has been clinically-tested and found effective for a broad range of psychiatric and psychological problems. CBT has strong clinical support from both clients and clinicians who like its collaborative process that uses practical tools and strategies for solving everyday problems.

The challenge for many clinicians is finding practical ways to integrate empirically-supported therapies into everyday clinical practice with clients. While there are many outstanding books on the theory and practice of cognitive-behavioral therapies, the CBT Skills Workbook provides over 100 of the top hands-on practical worksheets and exercises to help clinicians integrate CBT into practice.

The exercises and worksheets are designed to provide powerful tools that can be used in individual or group sessions and as homework assignments. An effective way to use the workbook is to have clients complete the exercises and worksheets at home and then review them together in each session. Clients learn by doing, thus these exercises are intentionally designed to be short, sweet, and easy-to-complete.

This workbook contains powerful, yet practical, tools and techniques to help mental health professionals provide clients with state-of-the-art evidence-based interventions for a broad range of addiction and mental health issues and concerns. The workbook is divided into four key sections that include practical exercises and worksheets focused on client motivation, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. In a nutshell, it helps people learn how to feel better by changing what they think and do.

With the explosive movement toward accountability and evidence-based treatments, the CBT Skills Workbook will help psychologists, mental health professionals, and social workers integrate evidence-based treatments and therapies into clinical practice. In short, the workbook provides an easy to follow directory of practical exercises and homework activities that are designed to help people learn ways to have the life they truly want and deserve.

Author Biography

Dr. Barry M. Gregory Ed.D., M.Ed. has over 20 years of research, teaching, clinical and consulting experience in the field specializing in the implementation of evidence-based treatments like CBT in everyday clinical practice. He has conducted over 700 national evidence-based training seminars including CBT for Children and Adolescents, CBT for PTSD and Trauma, CBT for Personality Disorders, and CBT for Depression and Anxiety.

His interactive and entertaining training seminars have consistently received the highest evaluations from participants for bridging the gap between science and practice and for offering proven and practical CBT techniques to use in everyday clinical practice. His expertise in cognitive-behavioral therapies comes not only from his formal education, training and supervision, but also from his extensive clinical experiences working in the field.

As a clinical director and consultant, Dr. Gregory has been instrumental in helping agencies implement evidence-based therapies like CBT into everyday clinical practices. He has also facilitated highly successful CBT teen groups with parents, supervised other therapists in CBT, and directly provided CBT to children, adolescents, young adults and families. His recent best-selling book, the CBT Skills Workbook helps clinicians and therapists implement practical worksheets and exercises into everyday clinical practice. And finally, Dr. Gregory was trained and mentored by Dr. Thomas Dorworth, who was trained by Dr. Albert Ellis and the late Dr. G. Alan Marlatt.