An Interview with Judith Beck About Cognitive Therapy (Interview‪)‬

Judith S. Beck is the Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in suburban Philadelphia and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches residents. Dr. Beck currently divides her time between administration, supervision and teaching, clinical work, program development, research and writing. She is a consultant for several NIMH research studies and has presented hundreds of seminars and workshops nationally and internationally on cognitive therapy for a wide variety of psychiatric disorders. She authored Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond, which has been translated into 20 languages. Her other books include Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems: What to Do When the Basics Don't Work, The Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy, Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, The Beck Diet Solution and The Beck Diet Solution Weight Loss Workbook, a cognitive therapy approach to weight loss and maintenance. Dr. Beck is a Past President of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. NAJP: There is great diversity of applications for CBT. At what times would you say "use CBT only?" For what disorders would you not recommend CBT?