This best-selling eminently practical evidence-based guide to the cognitive behavioural approach to counselling has now been substantially revised & updated to reflect current theoretical & practical developments in the CBT field. The second edition contains an expanded step-by-step guide to the process of counselling from initial contact with the client to termination. The guide follows a skills-based format & new case studies illustrate the theory into practice. Drawing on their own extensive experience & contemporary research the authors provide a concise overview of the cognitive behavioural approach with new material on emotional problems rarely covered in practitioner guides a strong emphasis on the therapeutic alliance & updated bibliographic references throughout.