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Improving clinical outcomes in REBT/CBT: The therapeutic uses of tape-recording

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This paper outlines the numerous ways in which clinical outcomes in REBT/CBT can be enhanced and therapeutic impasses overcome through the regular and creative use of audiotherapy as a treatment adjunct. In particular therapy dosage intensity can be enhanced significantly and homework compliance improved. Audiotherapy also has a key role to play with clients who are isolated or are unsupported in their living environments. Such clients can be encouraged to use audio-taping as “therapist-assisted interventions,” so increasing the likelihood of their initiating therapeutic tasks such as graded activity assignments and disputing cognitive distortions and dysfunctional beliefs in vivo. The paper finally recommends that audio-taping of therapy sessions has sufficient major benefits to suggest its routine incorporation into therapeutic practice.

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  1. Division of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy Department Leeds University, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds, England

    Norman D. Macaskill (Senior Lecturer and Consultant Psychotherapist in Cognitive-Behavioural Psychotherapy)

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Macaskill, N.D. Improving clinical outcomes in REBT/CBT: The therapeutic uses of tape-recording. J Rational-Emot Cognitive-Behav Ther 14, 199–207 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02238271

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