This book is the first to compile and present the latest clinical strategies and offer a hands-on clinical guide to inference-based cognitive behavioral therapy (I-CBT) for individuals with all types of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
Research has shown shown that OCD is a reasoning problem whereby people erroneously infer that there is a reason to doubt themselves despite their senses and common sense saying otherwise. In the inference-based model, the obsessional doubt is considered the source of OCD and the starting point for therapy. I-CBT offers an economical model effective for all OCD subtypes and is designed to help the person regain confidence in a realistic appreciation of events and move away from an imaginary doubt.
Using cartoons and illustrations, as well as clinical examples from the full range of OCD subtypes, this book is a fully interactive manual for clinicians, practitioners, and students. The book integrates theory and application, and pays special attention to the therapeutic process, detailing all steps from meeting the client and explaining the approach, right through to terminating therapy and preventing relapse.
Traditionally, obsessive-compulsive disorder has been classified as an anxiety disorder, but there is increasing evidence that it is a reasoning or belief disorder.
This book describes the ways in which reasoning can be applied to OCD for effective treatment regimes. It moves comprehensively through theoretical, experimental, clinical and treatment aspects of reasoning research, and contains a detailed treatment manual of great value to practitioners, including assessment and treatment protocols and case studies.
Beyond Reasonable Doubt presents an innovative approach that brings together reasoning research, philosophy of mind and language, and cognitive therapy to understand OCD.
It outlines the development and validation of an inference-based approach to treating OCD, which addresses the inductive and often imaginary narrative leading to obsessional inferences.