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© British Association of Social Workers

The Cognitive-Behavioural Approach with Depressed Clients

MICHAEL J. SCOTT and STEPHEN G. STRADLING

Dr Michael Scott is a Senior Research Social Worker and Senior Counselling Psychologist with the Liverpool Personal Service Society, where he directs the Centre for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. He is also an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manchester.

Dr. Stephen Stradling is a Lecturer at the University of Manchester, where he runs a modular M.Sc., in Applied Psychology, lectures on research methods and is involved in research on a range of applied topics.

Correspondence to Dr Michael Seott, Liverpool Personal Service Society, 34, Stanley Street, Liverpool L1 6AN

Summary

The recent cognitive revolution in psychology has meant that an individual's behaviour is now rarely viewed in simple behaviourist terms as solely a product of rewards and punishments, but is seen as influenced by the individual's own, often idiosyncratic, view of their situation. This new paradigm has enabled the development of highly structured and usually brief interventions in many areas of individual emotional problems.

This paper describes Individual and Group Cognitive Therapy with depressed clients and cites two recent outcome studies. The contribution of Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to this area of emotional distress is noted with the caveat that its effectiveness has been more thoroughly studied in this area than in others.


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