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Joel L. Becker, Ph.D., works at the Center
for Cognitive Therapy in Beverly Hills (California), and
teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
and at the University
of Southern California (USC). He was trained in both
psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches.
Currently he is specialized in marital therapy and in the
psychotherapy of anxiety disorders. In Italy on April 15, 2003, he
gave also a seminar on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, titled "Recent advances in the assessment and cognitive-behavioral treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder",
which is available in videotape (see web site http://www.psychomedia.it/pm-cong/2000/beckmelpr-e.htm).
Contents of the
two videotapes
First
cassette (morning)
Introduction.
History and theoretical tenants. Aaron Beck's approach (e.g.,
concept of "collaborative empiricism"). Restructuring of personality
versus symptom modification. The cognitive model of anxiety.
Two main learning theories of anxiety: Pavlov's "classic
conditioning" and Skinner's "operant conditioning". Concepts of
reinforcement and punishment, both to be understood in a "positive"
and "negative" way. Problem of trauma as a real event or as an
imaginary event (role of fantasy in the genesis of mental disorders). Wolpe's therapy by reciprocal
inhibition, now called "systematic desensitization".
Specific
phobias. Treatment techniques with systematic desensitization,
imagined and in vivo.
Panic Disorder and
Agoraphobia. Treatment techniques with deliberate exposure to
interoceptive cues with breathing retraining + graded in vivo
exposure. Relationship between Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia.
Second cassette
(afternoon)
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder (OCD). Difference between obsessions and
compulsions. Treatment techniques with deliberate exposure
and response prevention. Relationship between Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder and other disorders with compulsive aspects (eating
disorders, trichotillomania, pathological gambling, etc.).
Post-traumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD). Treatment techniques with direct
therapeutic exposure. Clinical examples.
Social Phobia.
Treatment techniques with group exposure.
Generalized Anxiety
Disorder. Treatment techniques with worry exposure.
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del comportamento assertivo. Torino: Edizione
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Bara B. G. (1996).
Manuale di psicoterapia cognitiva. Torino: Bollati
Boringhieri.
Beck A.T. (1976).
Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders. New York: Int.
Univ. Press (trad. it.: Principi di terapia cognitiva. Roma:
Astrolabio, 1984).
Beck A.T. &
Freeman A. (1993). Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders. New York: Guilford (trad. it.: Terapia cognitiva
dei disturbi di personalità. Milano: Mediserve,
1993).
Beck A.T., Rush
A.J.,
Shaw B.F. & Emery G. (1979). Cognitive Therapy of
Depression. New York: Guilford Press (trad. it.: Terapia
cognitiva della depressione. Torino: Boringhieri,
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Dettore D. (1998).
Il disturbo ossessivo-compulsivo. Caratteristiche cliniche e
tecniche di intervento. Milano: McGraw-Hill.
Guidano V. &
Liotti G. (1979). Elementi di psicoterapia comportamentale.
Roma: Bulzoni.
Guidano V.F. (1987).
The Complexity of the Self. New York: Guilford (trad. it.:
La complessità del Sé. Un approccio sistemico-processuale alla
psicopatologia e alla terapia cognitiva. Torino: Bollati
Boringhieri, 1988).
Moderato P. &
Sirigatti S. (1995). L'uomo che cambia. Nuovi percorsi di
intervento psicologico. Milano: Angeli.
Reda M.A. (1986).
Sistemi cognitivi complessi e psicoterapia. Roma: NIS.
Sacco G. (1989).
Tecniche della terapia cognitivo-comportamentale. Roma:
Melusina.
Sanavio E. (1991).
Psicoterapia cognitiva e comportamentale. Roma: NIS.
Wells A. (1997).
Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: A Practice Manual and
Conceptual Guide. New York: Wiley (trad. it.: Trattamento
cognitivo dei disturbi d'ansia. Milano: McGraw-Hill, 1999).
Joel
Becker, Ph.D.
Center for
Cognitive Psychotherapy
9665 Wilshire
Boulevard, # 520
Beverly
Hills, CA
90212
USA
Tel. (310) 858-3831
For
further informations: <migone@unipr.it>
Other videos:
John F. Clarkin, "Personality and personality disorders" (1997)
(6 videos, 17 hours)
Joel Becker, "Anxiety Disorders:
Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapeutic techniques" (2000)
(2 videos, 5 hours)
Joel Becker & Gabriele Melli, "Recent advances in the assessment and
cognitive-behavioral treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" (2003)
(1 video, 3 hours)
Robert R. Holt & Morris N. Eagle, "The
scientific status of psychoanalysis" (2000)
(1 video, 2.5 hours)
Robert R. Holt, Philip S. Holzman, Roy Schafer, Herbert J. Schlesinger, Fred
Schwartz, Peter H. Wolff et al., "40th Anniversary of the
Rapaport-Klein Study Group: Reflections on David Rapaport" (2003) (1
video, 2 hours, in English)
Adolf Grünbaum et al., "Questions and answers on psychoanalysis and
philosophy" (1998)
(2 videos, audio only with images)
Robert R. Holt, "A History of the Research Center for Mental Health, New York
University (NYU)" (2006) (1 video, in English)
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