Cultural Adaptation of CBT for Serious Mental Illness: A Guide for Training and Practice

Author: Shanaya Rathod (Author)

Edition: 1st

Language: English

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: March 4, 2015

ISBN-13: 978-1118976166

This comprehensive guide is designed to enable Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) practitioners to effectively engage individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds by applying culturally-sensitive therapeutic techniques. It adapts core CBT techniques such as reattribution, normalization, explanation development, formulating, reality testing, inference chaining, and resetting expectations. The high-profile author team includes specialists in culturally-sensitive CBT alongside world-renowned pioneers in the application of CBT to serious mental illness. This resource contains the most up-to-date research on CBT in ethnic minority groups available.