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Keep It Simple - The Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT
Mansell W
International Journal of Cognitive Therapy - Special Issue on Transdiagnostic Approaches to CBT [W.Mansell Ed.]. 2008;1:179-180.
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Abstract
A special issue of the International Journal of Cognitive Therapy on the transdiagnostic approach to cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is both timely, and also long overdue. Clinicians, researchers and theorists have been commenting on the commonalities in the psychological processes involved in human distress and dysfunction since the dawn of psychotherapy. The transdiagnostic approach, in recent years, merely provides a formalised method for this enterprise – to systematically evaluate the degree of overlap in cognitive and behavioural maintenance processes across a wide range of psychological disorders. This special issue provides articles that introduce the approach, evaluate the evidence to support it, explore its clinical utility and imbue it with a contemporary theoretical perspective. As the above quotes imply, the long term aim of the transdiagnostic approach is to simplify the science and practice of CBT to an appropriate level – one that reflects the universality of human psychology and captures the principles required to make CBT as efficient and comprehensively applicable as is scientifically possible.