期刊名称：Journal of Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy and Research
印刷版ISSN：2146-9490
出版年度：2012
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：70-76
出版社：International Medical Journal Management and Indexing System
摘要：There is growing interest in the cognitive psychotherapy all around the world including Turkey. According to American Institute of cognitive Therapy; cognitive psychotherapy is the fastest growing and most rigorously studied kind of talk therapy and it is practiced around the world, taking hold in places from the Middle East to Japan. Cognitive psychotherapy was designed first by Aaron Temkin Beck in 1950s. He has published over 450 articles and authored or co-authored seventeen books and he has been listed as one of the 10 individuals who shaped the face of American Psychiatry and one of the 5 most influential psychotherapists of all time since then. Becks groundbreaking systematic research established for the first time the efficacy of any psychotherapy for the treatment of depression. Moreover he not only developed and tested an effective short-term treatment (cognitive therapy) for depression, but he and his former students have successfully adapted cognitive therapy to a wide range of other psychiatric disorders as well. Numerous controlled clinical trials have now demonstrated that cognitive therapy is effective in a variety of psychiatric conditions including depression, bulimia nervosa, hypochondriasis, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, body dysmorphic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Therefore knowing the father of cognitive therapy and his journey from 1950s to 2010s will help to understand cognitive therapy and its development during these years. This article aims to give an overview of the historical background to contemporary cognitive and cognitive-behavioral approaches to psychotherapy by focusing on Becks life, characteristics and works.
