Cultural Adaptation of CBT for Serious Mental Illness

A Guide for Training and Practice

• Author(s): Shanaya Rathod, David Kingdon, Narsimha Pinninti, Douglas Turkington, Peter Phiri,
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Pages: 352
• ISBN_10: 1118976169
  ISBN_13: 9781118976166
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Psychology / Clinical Psychology , Psychology / General ,

Description:...

• A comprehensive guide designed to enable CBT practitioners to effectively engage people from diverse cultural backgrounds by applying culturally-sensitive therapeutic techniques
• Adapts core CBT techniques including reattribution, normalization, explanation development, formulating, reality testing, inference chaining and resetting expectations
• High profile author team includes specialists in culturally-sensitive CBT along with world-renowned pioneers in the application of CBT to serious mental illness
• Contains the most up-to-date research on CBT in ethnic minority groups available