CBT: A Clinician's Guide to Using the Five Areas Approach

Summary:

This book is essential reading for practitioners involved in introducing the use of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) into their clinical practice and making it truly
accessible to practitioners and patients alike. It covers:

- how to support someone in 10, 20 or 60 minutes using the successful and proven
five areas model
- the challenges faced and how to overcome these when working using guided
CBT self-help
- how to offer support face to face, or using telephone, email or classes
- practical information and advice for all those wishing to use the five areas guided
CBT interventions in their clinical practice
- how to introduce, support and review progress using the Plan, Do, Review model
- a description of the wide range of five areas resources and how to use them with
patients
- support scripts and linked online resources.

The book provides a proven delivery model for wider dissemination of this evidence-based CBT approach. It is essential reading for general practitioners, psychologists,
psychological well-being practitioners (PWPs), self-help support workers, coaches,
counsellors, nurses, occupational therapists, teachers, psychiatrists, condition
management/back to work teams, managers and commissioners and other practitioners
wishing to incorporate CBT as part of their practice and services.

• Describes the evidence base for self-help delivery in mental health services
• Discusses the challenges faced when introducing self-help approaches into services and practice and offers practical advice
• Focuses on the Five Areas model of CBT, complementary to the hugely successful Overcoming titles
• Additional downloadable materials at www.livinglifetothefull.com
• Authored by two of the UK's leading CBT practitioners with wide experience in using the courses

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1 Getting to know the Five Areas approach
Chapter 1: Why is there a need for accessible forms of cognitive behavioural therapy?
Chapter 2: Key elements of the Five Areas model
Part 2 Using the Five Areas approach
Clinical assessment and selling the model
Chapter 3: Completing a collaborative Five Areas assessment
Chapter 4: Using the Five Areas assessment to understand why the person feels as they do
Supporting and reviewing progress
Chapter 5: Setting goals and monitoring progress using the Plan, Do, Review model
Chapter 6: Offering structured support face to face and by telephone or email
Chapter 7: Delivering support in the LLTTF and other classes
Part 3 Resources overview
Chapter 8: Five Areas written resources for low mood and stress
Chapter 9: Five Areas online, DVD and audio multimedia resources for low mood and stress
Part 4 Supervision, training and service implications
Chapter 10: Case management and supervision
Chapter 11: Training and supporting practitioners in using the Five Areas approach
Part 5 The Five Areas in action
Five Areas model as a first contact assessment tool in an IAPT team in England
Five Areas books with GP support
Five Areas depression book plus telephone support in Canada
Use of the Overcoming Anxiety book in an IAPT service
Little CBT Books delivered by housing workers in England
Little CBT Books delivered by social services via telephone and LLTTF classes
LLTTF classes delivered in community settings
LLTTF classes with university students
LLTTF classes in schools
Using the Little CBT Books in secondary schools
Living Life to the Full free online course (www.llttf.com)
Living Life to the Full Interactive (www.llttf.com) offered across Scotland (pilot service)
Overcoming Bulimia Online (www.overcomingbulimiaonline.com) delivered in a specialist eating disorders service
Overcoming Anorexia Online (www.overcominganorexiaonline.com) delivered in a specialist eating disorders clinic
Self-help clinic in a primary care mental health team
Part 6 Supporter scripts and resources

About the Author(s):
Dr Chris Williams BSc (Hons) MBCHB MMedSc MD FRCPsych is Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Marie Chellingsworth RMN, Dip Nursing, BSc (Hons) is Course Director (IAPT) and Senior Lecturer in Psychological Therapies, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, University of Nottingham, and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, UK

Readership:
Psychological therapists, primary care physicians – anyone administering CBT, especially in the context of the IAPT initiative.

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