From a leading clinician-researcher, this book presents an empirically tested approach for helping clients with severe and chronic depression by directly tackling negative rumination.

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From a leading clinician-researcher, this book presents an empirically tested approach for helping clients with severe and chronic depression by directly tackling negative rumination. Rumination-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (RFCBT) combines carefully adapted elements of CBT with imagery, visualization, and compassion-based techniques. The book provides everything needed to implement this 12-session approach, including numerous sample dialogues, a chapter-length case example, reflections and learning exercises for therapists, and 10 reproducible client handouts. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8½" x 11" size.

• I. Rumination Processes in Psychopathology and Treatment
• 1. Why a Treatment Targeting Rumination?
• 2. Understanding Rumination
• 3. Key Components and Principles of RFCBT
• II. Rumination-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• 4. Initial Assessment
• 5. Therapy Rationale and Goal Setting
• 6. Functional Analysis of Rumination
• 7. Choosing Treatment Interventions
• 8. Practice at Developing Interventions: Addressing Difficulties and Hurdles
• 9. Shifting Processing Style: Becoming Concrete and Specific
• 10. Shifting Processing Style: Absorption
• 11. Shifting Processing Style: Compassion
• III. Application and Extension of RFCBT
• 12. A Case of RFCBT from Beginning to End
• 13. Adaptations of RFCBT
• Appendix. Handouts
• References
• Index

362 Pages Size: 6" x 9" Hardcover