CBASP as a Distinctive Treatment for Persistent Depressive Disorder : Distinctive features

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CBASP as a Distinctive Treatment for Persistent Depressive DisorderDistinctive features\nAuthor(s): James P. McCullough, Jr., Elisabeth Schramm, J. Kim Penberthy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415870610, 978-0415870610\nSynopsis\nThe Cognitive Behavioural Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) is the only psychotherapy model developed specifically for chronic depression. In the latest addition to the successful Distinctive Features series, the developer of CBASP, James P. McCullough Jr., along with Elisabeth Schramm and J. Kim Penberthy, provides an accessible introduction to this approach, showing how it differs from other cognitive behavioural approaches, and highlighting those features both theoretical and practical that make it unique.\n\nThe unparalleled problems of the chronically depressed patient are some of the most difficult that practitioners face. The disorder has usually continued for a decade .