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Family therapy represents a major conceptual shift in the approach to understanding and treatment of psychological disturbance and mental illness. Within this approach symptoms are understood as the consequence of disturbance in the functioning of the family as a whole, expressed by the individual with the manifest difficulty. An understanding of how the identified patient and family affect each other both positively and negatively can lead to effective family interventions.

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Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an umbrella term, including several related theoretical models each with its own approach and techniques. This chapter will give an overview of the history of CBT, its underlying principles, therapeutic models, treatments and applications. It will also include a brief outline of dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT).

The fundamental tenet of CBT is that the way we think affects the way we feel and act. This deceptively simple statement has profound implications in practice. It means our distress could be modified by changing the way we think, or changing the way we respond to our thoughts.

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Chapter 9 - Systemic Family Therapy

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Chapter 7 - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy: An Introduction

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ECT in schizophrenia: need for reappraisal?

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Chapter 9 - Systemic Family Therapy

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Chapter 7 - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy: An Introduction

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ECT in schizophrenia: need for reappraisal?