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The Cognitive Revolution: New Way Forward, Backward Somersault or Full Circle?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Paul M. Salkovskis
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford

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The “Cognitive Revolution” has involved substantial changes in the emphasis of clinical practice and research interests of behaviour therapists. Work carried out in this area suggests that earlier fears about the potentially damaging effects of cognitive-behaviour therapy were unfounded. It can be argued that cognitive orientations have gained such widespread acceptance amongst behaviour therapists because the approaches are highly compatible at clinical and research levels, and because behaviour therapy had already started to incorporate similar concepts. Furthermore, cognitive models have also provided a wealth of new ideas and methods which considerably enhance behavioural approaches whilst leaving the fundamentals intact.

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Special Issue: The Cognitive Revolution
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1986

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