Beck, Aaron

Beck, Aaron T., A. J. Rush, B. F. Shaw and G. Emery, Cognitive Therapy of Depression, New York Guilford, 1979 Beecher, H. K., The Powerful Placebo , Journal of the American Medical Association 159, no. 17 (1955) 1602-06 Benedetti, Fabrizio, C. Arduino and M. Amanzio, Somatotopic Activation of Opioid Systems by Target-Directed Expectations of Analgesia , Journal of Neuroscience 19 (1999) 3639-48... 

Beck, Aaron T., M.D. Depression. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970. (Sixteenth printing, 1996.) Fassler, David G., M.D. and Lynne S. Dumas. "HelpMe, Pm Sad. "New York Viking Penguin, 1997. 

In 1976, Aaron Beck, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania, proposed a cognitive theory of emotions and emotional disorders - a theory that was to become the foundation for cognitive behavioural therapy for depression. According to Beck, fear is produced by the anticipation of harm, joy by the expectancy of positive events, and sadness by the sense that something important has for ever been lost. As a consequence, overcoming fear and depression requires changing the beliefs that have produced them. 

Butler, Andrew C., Jason E. Chapman, Evan M. Forman and Aaron T. Beck, The Empirical Status of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy A Review of Meta-Analyses , Clinical Psychology Review 26 (2006) 17-31... 

In Cognitive Therapy and Its Disorders (1976) New American Library, Aaron T. Beck, describes a system of psychotherapy that can improve the quality of a patient s beliefs by substituting metre favourable correct beliefs for depressing wrong beliefs. Substituting still more favourable incorrect beliefs would require a different procedure. 

This book is presented in three parts. Part 1 (Chapters 1 and 2) provides an introduction to and overview of stress in the occupational context, and its causes and consequences. A cognitive behavioural model of occupational stress based on Aaron T. Beck s seminal work on the subject (Beck 1984) is developed. Part 2 (Chapters 3-8) introduces the standard cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) approach to assessment, formulation and the primary, secondary and tertiary interventions for treating occupational stress. While the main focus of this section is on individual CBT interventions, a chapter on organizational interventions has also been included, as an acknowledgement of the importance of primary level interventions. Case illustrations of the standard CBT approach are presented in Chapters 9, 10 and 11. It should be noted that the names and some of the details presented in all the case illustrations have of course been altered to protect the identity of those individuals involved. 

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