Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- PART I INTRODUCTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- PART II THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD: PROCEDURES AND ANALYSES
- PART III EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
- PART IV THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD
- 20 The uses of the ESM in psychotherapy
- 21 Expanding the experiential parameters of cognitive therapy
- 22 The monitoring of optimal experience: a tool for psychiatric rehabilitation
- 23 The ESM and the measurement of clinical change: a case of anxiety disorder
- 24 The applicability of ESM in personalized rehabilitation
- 25 Everyday self-awareness: implications for self-esteem, depression and resistance to therapy
- PART V PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL ISSUES and ATTENTION POINTS
- CLOSING Looking to the future
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
21 - Expanding the experiential parameters of cognitive therapy
from PART IV - THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- PART I INTRODUCTION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- PART II THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD: PROCEDURES AND ANALYSES
- PART III EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDIES WITH CLINICAL SAMPLES
- PART IV THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS OF THE EXPERIENCE SAMPLING METHOD
- 20 The uses of the ESM in psychotherapy
- 21 Expanding the experiential parameters of cognitive therapy
- 22 The monitoring of optimal experience: a tool for psychiatric rehabilitation
- 23 The ESM and the measurement of clinical change: a case of anxiety disorder
- 24 The applicability of ESM in personalized rehabilitation
- 25 Everyday self-awareness: implications for self-esteem, depression and resistance to therapy
- PART V PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL ISSUES and ATTENTION POINTS
- CLOSING Looking to the future
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
Summary
While the specific reasons vary widely, people generally seek therapy to relieve emotional distress or to modify troublesome attitudes or behaviors. The means by which therapists contribute to the accomplishment of these ends are as varied as the presenting problems. Still, a dual process takes place where on the one hand the patient brings his or her extra-therapeutic life into the therapy session, and on the other hand the therapist facilitates the exportation of therapeutic gains into the everyday extra-therapeutic life of the patient. The present chapter will explore the possible contributions of the ESM to this dual process of importing extra-therapeutic life into therapy sessions, and of generalizing therapeutic accomplishments to everyday life. While ESM may be useful within many different therapeutic programs, the therapeutic utility of ESM will be illustrated in the cognitive treatment of depression.
The cognitive treatment of depression assumes that clinical depression is the result of negative cognitive distortions (Beck, 1979; Diekstra, Engels & Methorst, 1988; Wright & Beck, 1983). In light of the presumed etiological role of negative cognitions in clinical depression, it is not surprising that the modus operandi of most cognitive interventions revolves around identifying and decreasing negative thoughts (e.g., Beck et al., 1979; Stravynski & Greenberg, 1987; Teasdale & Fennel, 1988; Teasdale, Fennel, Hibbert & Amies, 1984).
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- The Experience of PsychopathologyInvestigating Mental Disorders in their Natural Settings, pp. 260 - 269Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992