Cognitive Therapy Inpatients: Developing a Cognitive Milieu

With the growing importance of short-term treatment, even for severely ill patients, this volume is an extremely rich, clinically valuable guide to the cognitive treatment of inpatients with diverse psychiatric conditions and to the development of a cognitive inpatient milieu. It draws on years of actual inpatient treatment experience and addresses such practical issues as how to conduct group or family cognitive therapy, cognitive treatment of general medical patients, elderly depressed alcoholic, eating disordered, and chronically ill patients. This book provides a guide for the roles of the therapist, physician, nurse, and occupational therapists. The case vignettes make it both extremely informative and easy to read. This volume provides a coherent, synthetic approach to inpatients using the cognitive model and techniques. It should be essential reading for all disciplines involved in inpatient care. --A. John Rush, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

An excellent book which will be indispensable to anyone wishing to apply cognitive therapy in inpatient settings. The authors provide admirably clear accounts of how to create a cognitive milieu; train staff; identify suitable patients; monitor progress; and use the techniques of cognitive therapy with the wide range of populations and problems seen in inpatient psychiatry. Full of clinical illustrations and sound advice, this book offers a much needed and exciting new perspective for working with inpatients. --David M. Clark, D.Phil. Oxford University

Cognitive therapy in inpatient psychiatry increasingly makes sense, given its demonstrated efficacy in outpatient clinical trials and beginning evidence of efficacy with inpatients, its comprehensibility to staff from a variety of disciplines, and its short-term, target-focused nature that fits well with the current movement toward decreased length of stay. This approach is likely to be increasingly used, and the present volume can serve as an extremely valuable handbook for the development of cognitive therapy inpatient programs. I now that I will rely on it heavily in training psychology interns and psychiatry residents. --Clive J. Robbins, Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center, in a review for Depression

An excellent book which will be indispensable to anyone wishing to apply cognitive therapy in inpatient settings. The authors provide admirably clear accounts of how to create a cognitive milieu; train staff; identify suitable patients; monitor progress; and use the techniques of cognitive therapy with the wide range of populations and problems seen in inpatient psychiatry. Full of clinical illustrations and sound advice this book offers a much needed and exciting new perspective for working with inpatients. --David M. Clark, Oxford University