Low intensity CBT models and conceptual underpinnings Overview James Bennett-Levy and Paul Farrand Low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (LI CBT) is a newcomer to the landscape of effective evidence-based psychological treatments. In this book, we see that LI CBT takes a variety of forms, ranging from guided or unguided internet-based interventions through to group CBT, self-help book prescription schemes, 30-minute advice clinics, and GP delivered brief interventions. LI CBT may be variously supported by phone, conventional mail, face-to-face, bulletin boards, SMS, or email in personalized or automated forms. Part of the rationale for the Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions has been to gather these different forms together in one place, and see if what emerges is something bigger than its component parts. We believe it is. What unites the varieties of LI CBT is that they represent strategies to radically increase access to evidence-based therapies. They democrat...
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The cognitive distortions and the idio¬ syncratic thought content of depressed pa¬ tients have been described by me in a previous article.2 It was suggested on the basis of clinical observation that many of the phenomena in depression may be charac¬ terized in terms of a thought disorder. This conclusion was drawn from the consistent finding of systematic errors, such as arbitrary inferences, selective abstraction, and overgeneralization in the idiosyncratic con¬ ceptualizations of the depressed patients. The present paper will present a theoretical analysis of the thinking disorder observed in depressed patients. The formulations will be limited to a few broad areas in which the relevant clinical material was considered ade¬ quate to warrant a formal theoretical ex¬ position. The discussion will be directed toward two salient problems : first, how the typical idiosyncratic content and cognitive distortions become dominant during the de¬ pressed phase; secondly, the relationship b...