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This chapter is intended to help practicing cognitive behavior therapists make their treatment more intense, interpersonal , and impactful for both therapists and clients by incorporating the methods of functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP; Kohlenberg & Tsai, 1991; Tsai et al., 2008). Our approach is user friendly in that it builds on existing cognitive behavior therapy (CBT ) methods and skills with which practicing therapists are already familiar.

The most accurate identification of cognitions is accomplished right after they occur.

(Beck, Rush, Shaw, & Emery , 1979, p. 180)

We have found it essential that schemas be challenged when they are triggered (in-session).

(Young, 1990, p. 39 )

With permission of the publisher, portions of this chapter are based on Kohlenberg, Kanter, Bolling, Parker, and Tsai (2002).

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    This problem has been addressed on a theoretical level by cognitive therapists (Hollon & Kriss, 1984). For a more complete discussion of their position as well as a behaviorally based critique and account of cognitive concepts such as cognitive products and structures, see Kohlenberg and Tsai (1991), pp. 101–120.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Robert J. Kohlenberg

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Jonathan W. Kanter

  3. Psychological Services and Training Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Mavis Tsai

  4. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Cristal E. Weeks

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    Jonathan W. Kanter

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    Mavis Tsai

  3. Dept. Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195-1525, USA

    Robert J. Kohlenberg

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Kohlenberg, R.J., Kanter, J.W., Tsai, M., Weeks, C.E. (2010). FAP and Cognitive Behavior Therapy . In: Kanter, J., Tsai, M., Kohlenberg, R. (eds) The Practice of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5830-3_2

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