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Archive for May, 2007
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Friday, May 25th, 2007Aaron T. Beck Awarded Honorary degree from the University of Pennsylvania
Monday, May 21st, 2007Last week, Dr. Aaron Beck received the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Penn’s Honorary Degree Citation states that Dr. Beck has been “…recognized as possibly the most influential and revolutionary figure in psychiatry since Freud and Jung.” During a five decade career of research and clinical care at Penn, Dr. Beck developed a new form of treatment, Cognitive Therapy, which “…has become one of the most popular and effective treatments of depression, anxiety and personality disorders, and drug abuse.”
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania conferred this degree upon Dr. Beck for “exhibiting the genius and courage to pioneer a new approach to mental illness and treatment, for straddling disciplines to transform multiple fields, and for improving the lives of untold millions.”
Congratulations Dr. Beck!
Cognitive Behavior Therapy helps prevent spread of HIV
Friday, May 11th, 2007The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) recently launched a Healthy Living Project to promote healthful behaviors among those who have HIV. The Healthy Living Project had two phases: 1) to qualitatively investigate and understand the living contexts of those with HIV and 2) to offer an intervention – Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). (more…)
Congratulations Dr. Padesky!
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007Dr. Christine A. Padesky has received the 2007 Award for Excellence in Cognitive Therapy from the Aaron T. Beck Institute for Cognitive Studies of Assumption College in Worchester, Massachusetts. Dr. Padesky trained with Dr. Aaron Beck early on and has since become a leader in the field of Cognitive Therapy. She has made major contributions through her clinical work, research, and publications, and also founded the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Southern California.
Congratulations from all of us at the Beck Institute!
Unemployed? Cognitive Behavior Therapy may be able to help
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007Usually we write in about recent studies – and this unemployment study is actually from 1997, but we thought it was interesting enough to warrant highlighting. People often ask us about using Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) techniques for everyday life issues (as opposed to using CBT for specific psychiatric disorders), and this unemployment study, conducted in the UK, is a great example of how CBT can be applied to other areas.
Here’s the overview: researchers recruited 289 people who had been unemployed for more than one year (but who did not have psychiatric disorders). They were randomly assigned to either group CBT or a control group that focused on social support. (more…)