Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD: A Comprehensive Manual

Great addition to my clinical practice!

This manual breaks down CPT session by session and comes with handouts easily shared with clients. I used it for virtual sessions and loved the electronic version of handouts that I could share screen with clients. Perfect step by step guide for clinicians!

This is a great book for learning CPT. I'm already well versed in CBT, which is similar, so it was easy to follow along and learn CPT. Many of the tools have works really well for my patients, I would highly recommend this as a great supplement for any other CPT course you are taking.

Great book

IF you're looking for workbooks to do at home, this is not for you. It is almost entirely a script for clinicians to talk to "clients" (their term) and a few homework assignments. If you're prone to trust issues with caregivers, this might actually make that worse, since it dispassionately explains away "client" perceptions and tells clinicians how to change the subject and redirect discussions. One would hope a professional in a clinical environment doesn't need to be coached on basic counseling skills.I'm not reviewing the efficacy of the therapy. They have peer review journals for that. Though, don't hold your breath if you are hoping to find dissenting reviews (for the whole picture). Very few small time researchers can get a foothold against government funded programs like this. I nicked a star for the presentation. This is not a "comprehensive manual". It's a guided workbook that glosses over much of the actual science. This is "empirically supported treatment" not evidence based practice. This is an important distinction that the book causally doesn't alliterate on and that contradicts the video interviews with Patricia Resick. That was the second star. The homework and examples are simplistic, given the breadth of "index traumas" they purport to help with, but I've not seen a generic program that can avoid this. I took off the third star because I can't take seriously, any program, that puts rape and sexual harassment in the same category.

I bought this book, not knowing it would come with my very expensive training that I took with Dr. Chard. Keep that in my fellow trainee's. The book is very important if you take the training, especially for the first session dialogue. I have mine all marked up and the pages are clipped with flags. Dr. Chard is an excellent speaker. In Ohio, be forewarned. If you take it through a psychological association you won't get the CEU's if you are a Master's Level. This is due to the politics in this state. I tried to fight it but the psych association refused to return calls or emails and that was several months ago.

This is the civilian version of their manual for the VA clinicians to use with their clients who suffer from PTSD. This is a manual for clinicians use. This book has all of the clinical trial references and documentation in the first couple chapters and it is impressive. As a psychotherapist I have begun to use this manual with my clients and am experiencing good results so far. I am looking forward to using all of the resources in this manual with all of my clients who suffer from PTSD. I can also see how CPT would be useful for Acute Stress Disorder as well. Maybe even depression.

Best manual with clear & detailed clinical interventions. CPT has been extremely effective for my clients with PTSD.

having bought and read the new one. I'm not sure there was enough updated to warrant needing the new edition. It's a great book but really my first edition has almost everything. I suppose it's worth it to have the larger handouts. Though the handouts are available online or in the smartphone app. I do like CPT a lot though. It's worth buying if you don't have the first edition already.

The only book you need for this protocol, manualised- so it explains every step of the way. CPT offers an explanatory model which is user friendly for both patients and therapists alike. Handouts are great and the web link to a PDF version is a bonus.

Received as described and quickly. Very satisfied with this purchase.

I rely on Kindle formatting to have books read to me using text to speech. This isn't formatted for Kindle, so there's no speakable content recognized on the screen.Please change the formatting.

A thorough guide though very repetitive and wordy. I would have preferred a condensed version with fewer confusing references to a multitude of handouts. Overall well documented and supported regardless. An appendum with the -SA add-one would have been ideal.