Reviews for Handbook of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (Third Edition)

The average rating for Handbook of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (Third Edition) based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-12-31 00:00:00 Andrew Bowering Used the 2019 version of this book to prepare for an oral exam about the third wave of CBT. It was rather hard to get a good overview of some of the therapies' theoretical background and history, often I had to use the book in combination with google. Some chapters, like those on mindfulness-based therapies, only give a really brief description that does not really add information to more general books about behavioral therapies or clinical psychology. It does sometimes give elaborate and good examples of how a treatment would look and what it would include. Sometimes examples of specific techniques are used an the techniques only explained pages further. The chapters seem to be written by people involved with that type of treatment, instead of one person from one theoretical inclination writing everything, so I suppose that's good. Generally I would not recommend this book as a perfect study guide, but since I could not find anything that gave a better, non-biased to one treatment type kind of overview like this I would still think this to be the best you can get that's actual in 2019.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-03-04 00:00:00 Lisa Brown Much closer to one star than three - I was very close to giving it one star. It starts out not terrible, but then gets worse and worse as it moves on. Some chapters are almost hilariously bad. Often all that'll be worth knowing about a given method is one or two key ideas; you quickly realize that most of the rest is just crap and/or speculation. Some chapters have more than this, but not many, and frankly a lot of this stuff is pure bullshit. Many of the chapters are written by partisans who don't even try to pretend to be impartial. I was very disappointed by this book.