Table of Contents: Succeeding with difficult clients :

Main Author:	Wessler, Richard L.
Other Authors:	Hankin, Sheenah.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	San Diego : Academic Press, 2001.
Series:	Practical resources for the mental health professional
Subjects:	Cognitive therapy. Psychotherapy. Aggressiveness. Cognitive Therapy > methods. Patient Compliance > psychology. Defense Mechanisms. Patients > psychology. Personality. Professional-Patient Relations. Thérapie cognitive. Psychothérapie. Agressivité PSYCHOLOGY > Psychotherapy > General. Cognitieve therapie.
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Table of Contents:

Cognitive appraisal theory. What makes difficult clients difficult
Motivation and attachment
Basic CAT concepts: personotypic affect, justifying cognitions, and security-seeking behaviors
Patterns of personality
The difficult client revisited
Cognitive appraisal therapy. The CAT assessment
Interventions based on the CAT model
Affect-based interventions
Additional interventions involving cognition, behavior, adjunctive medication, and therapeutic impasses
The process of CAT (case studies)
Applications of CAT. CAT with personality-disordered clients
Working with borderline personality-disordered clients
Couples therapy
CAT group therapy
Working with "difficult" parents.