ble treatment (p. 23) not only to the client but to his/her family members as well. Once CBT begins, it is important to establish a collaborative relationship with the client that includes opportunities for the client to ask questions, to give suggestions and to even disagree with the therapist. It is also important that the therapist is able to support medication management by also collaborating with the client’s other health care providers (with the client’s written permission). How this chapter makes a unique contribution This chapter makes a unique contribution in that it would also be very useful to many different mental health professionals with different levels of experience and education. At the beginning of the chapter, a first session CBToutline was provided. Following this, a detailed description of the different approaches or strategies a therapist could use was provided. Noteworthy also was the information that was provided about the diagnosis and treatment of this disorder. This information could be provided to a therapist’s clients and their family members when beginning therapy. The most important thing about this chapter (and the entire book) is the way information was presented – it could enable future researchers to implement CBT interventions and the results would truly reveal if this psychotherapeutic intervention really works.Compare/contrast Compares with article above as they both cite the 1984 Cochran study to prove CBT efficacy.This article compares with the research results of the article above it and the article below it. All three of these articles/chapters that reviewed the CBT research have some sort of conflict of interest. Two of the people who wrote these articles have professional ties to originator of the CBT. Their research results leave one wondering and obviously leads the reader to realize that this article also contrast the last three articles that question the res...
