Overview
- Describes mental health disorders, therapy and the meaning of stigma
- Aims at experts and non-experts, specifically to reduce stigma in mental health
- Includes revision questions
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Evidence-Based Psychotherapy, Stigma and Recovery
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Anxiety Disorders
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Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Trauma
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Somatic Disorders
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About this book
This book presents the evidence-based treatments in the context of cognitive behavioral therapy and rehabilitation in various disorders in combination with the clinical experience of the author in private practice. Every chapter is structured in the same form. Part A Basics: introduction, definition, the importance, discussion, revision questions, und Part B Disorders: abstract, introduction, clinical features, evidence-based treatments, discussion, revision questions. The book is addressed to psychology students, medicine students, to researchers, to psychotherapists, to psychiatrists and to non-experts. The language of the book is simple enough, so that non-experts can be informed about issues in mental health. The aim of the book is to minimize the stigma towards mental health problems, to give an optimistic message regarding the modern evidence-based treatments in mental health and to clarify that reintegration into society is a realistic goal nowadays.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Stavroula Rakitzi studied psychology at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen in Germany. She holds the European Diploma of Psychology. She was trained in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy in Athens according to EABCT Criteria. She completed her doctoral studies in clinical psychology and adult psychotherapy at the university of Koblenz-Landau in Germany. Since 2001, she is working as Diplompsychologist and Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapist in private practice. She promotes the Integrated Psychological Therapy for patients with schizophrenia since 2006 in Greece. She is a trainer in the Integrated Psychological Therapy (IPT) in her private practice in Athens Greece. She developed the IPT postgraduate program for psychologists and psychiatrists in Greece, who has been trained in CBT. She is a trainer and supervisor in cognitive behavioral psychotherapy in her own practice. She participated in many national and international conferences as speaker and she is an author of papers in Greek and international journals and books. She is a member of the Hellenic Society for Behavioral Research and Therapy (www.eees.gr), of Bundesverband Deutscher Psychologinnen and Psychologen (BDP) (www.bdp-verband.de) and of the American Psychological Association) (APA) (www.apa.org).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy
Book Subtitle: Recovery in Mental Health
Authors: Stavroula Rakitzi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27837-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27836-5Published: 01 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-27839-6Published: 02 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-27837-2Published: 31 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 209
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychiatry