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Despite the massive changes that have transformed cognitive therapy in recent years, many counselors still feel a lingering degree of resistance to the cognitive model and hold an image of cognitive therapy that is coldly rational and unimaginatively mechanistic in its methods. This clearly written and accessible volume finally reverses any negative views that counselors might have about cognitively based therapy. Frank Wills and Diana Sanders describe its original methods clearly and simply, but concentrate mainly on the new wave of therapeutic creativity, which is sweeping through cognitive therapy and making an already effective therapeutic approach even more applicable to an increasingly wide client group and range of issues and problems. The authors show how both the theory and practice of cognitive therapy are now being further enhanced by concepts more usually associated with other approaches, such as working with the emotions, the importance of the therapeutic relationship, working with images and other non-verbal aspects, and working with deeper core beliefs relating back to early and other formative experience. At the same time, they describe how this new model can be fully and usefully integrated in counselor�s working practice. The book is illustrated throughout with examples that show the process of the new cognitive therapy in action, and the authors describe fully how the cognitive model can effectively be put into practice. It will be invaluable for training and practicing counselors in the fields of counseling psychology and social work.