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'I really like this book and strongly recommend that you read it. As a clinician and educator in CBT I think this book has a lot to offer. It will meet the needs of the beginning CBT practitioners and provide welcome revision and extension of knowledge for the more experienced practitioner. This useful text provides an excellent balance of theory related to clinical practice. It was refreshing to see the authors provide a focus on behavioural theory and practice alongside the ubiquitous cognitive concepts and practice found in most other texts on this subject.
Very good book with case examples to assist practitioners development when working with people with Personality Disorders and implementing CBT techniques
An interesting text on how CBT can be used when working with personality issues. This is certainly a challenge that needs particular attention and would be useful for psychotherapists in any clinical setting.
Easy to read and systematic. The great book to introduce how CBT can cure personality disorders
Excellent for those wishing to specialise
Good material for working with this group. Will be using this for written material for next fall
Very useful for the mental health team workers giving an excellent overview of the role of CBT in the growing area of personality disorders.
An interesting text to support practice when working with clients with personality disorders. Would have liked it to be more formulation based in deciding interventions as teaching students in this way, therefore suggested as supplementary reading as information on personality disoreds helpful specifically. More useful to the post basic CBT course members.
An excellent overview of the relationship between the various Cognitive and Behavioural interventions which can be engineered to facilitate recovery from, and the inter-relationship between various personality disorders. Replete with schematic overviews, treatment plans and case study analysis - highly recommended for those embarking on a CBT career!
Gives clear outline on the use of CBT for personality disorders, especially written by CBT practitioners.
Fantastic book. CBT has traditionally had a poor record with clients with this common diagnosis. This book shows how practitioners can work effectively by working with a flexible yet faithful (to CBT) model
An informative book with clear practice examples.
This is a useful text in providing easy to understand explanations of Personality Disorder. In reading the introduction, I found the analogy of 'driving a large car' was useful in understanding the approach of CBT with PD.
I also liked the scripts which described particular techniques, interventions and stages of therapy.
Henck Van Bilsen s text is a thorough, if brief review of the main factors involved in providing CBT to this client group. However it would have benefitted from a deeper discussion of the nature and quality of the interpersonal aspects of this work (i.e. the process of transference/counter-transference) that is so critical with this type of disorder
Not only is this a good book around defining personality disorders it reinforces a number of key aspects of CBT and the ideas of transdiagonsis link very well with concepts of strategic therapy. Overall a very useful book for study and clinical practice
The consideration of personality and character styles linked to CBT practice is a useful addition to the body of existing CBT material.
Very useful addition to the body of CBT material linked specifically to personality and character styles and how these inform practice.
Adopted for use on the course.
Well-written and from a therapy point of view, slightly controversial in that CBT has until now not been considered suitable for people with personality disorders due to lack of evidence of its efficacy. This book suggests otherwise.
