Practicing Positive CBT. From Reducing Distress to Building Success

Fredrike Bannink

Abstract

After reading Fredrike Bannink’s book on Conflict Management, I was ready to learn about Positive CBT. Bannink trained as a clinical psychologist and teaches CBT, SFBT and Positive Psychology to psychologists and psychia- trists. The author describes the target audience of this book as “professionals who would like to adopt a (more) positive approach to psychotherapy and CBT, or who would simply like to increase the range of techniques available to them”. The aim of this book is to explore how traditional CBT becomes Positive CBT. Positive CBT is based on Solution- Focused Brief Therapy and Positive Psychology, and will be directed towards clients’ preferred futures and strengths instead of their past problems and deficits.

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