Coping Skills Training and Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Abstract

The coping skills group described in this volume is a form of brief, structured group psychotherapy in which clients are taught a variety of cognitive behavior techniques to be used for reducing both anxiety and depression and for coping more effectively with the problems and stresses of everyday life. The cognitive behavior techniques incorporated into the program (cognitive restructuring, problem solving, relaxation, and assertiveness training) have been carefully chosen to provide clients with a complementary set of coping strategies on which they can draw in dealing with current problems and with a broad range of potential future problems. The program is therefore in a very real sense preventive as well as remedial.