Eight Principles for a Modern CBT

“Eight Principles for a Modern CBT provides clinicians with a humane, sophisticated, realistic, flexible, and practical guide to using a wide range of CBT approaches. Written in a user-friendly style, the years of clinical wisdom gained by treating patients and training therapists comes through in every chapter. Specific case examples illustrate the real room of therapy without a rigid fidelity to a therapeutic model. What I loved about this book was the openness to other approaches, the appreciation and validation of human suffering as an inevitable part of the human condition, and the practical insights and metaphors that the authors provide throughout.”

Robert L. Leahy, PhD, director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy and clinical professor, Weill Cornell Medical College

“Temple and Codd address a persistent challenge for training clinicians in cognitive-behavior therapy, namely, how do we give them the most effective tools in the most efficient timeframe? Eight Principles for a Modern CBT isolates the central concepts that form the foundation for clinicians to maximize the efficacy of this complex treatment model. The rich case illustrations provide readers with details on the full gamut of CBT applications with adults. The book should be seriously considered for any professional training clinicians in this approach. It is also as an excellent resource for seasoned experts who need a quick reference for problems that might not be a routine part of their everyday practice.”

Dean McKay, PhD, ABPP, professor of psychology, Fordham University, past president, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and past president, Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology

"This is a book that aspires to be the 'big tent' under which all the diverse forms of cognitive and behavioral therapies are described and integrated. And it succeeds. Although some may want a deeper dive into each—and ample references are provided for those readers—most will find the clinical integration of these approaches extremely useful. For teachers, this book provides the next step for students who struggle to make sense of how to navigate so many forms and waves of CBT without rigidly adhering to a specific school of thought. For clinicians, the book validates the need to do what works in complex clinical situations. I will use it with my PG4s."

Donna M. Sudak, MD, past president, AADPRT, professor of psychiatry and vice chair for education, Drexel University, and general psychiatry residency program director, Phoenixville Hospital – Tower Health