Why should you consider offering CBT-T?

Background

The origins of CBT-T lie in a number of strands that were coming together at the same time:

All of these factors led us to use our clinical experience and the evidence base to devise a faster version of CBT-ED – ten sessions long (CBT-T).

Principles

CBT-T has the following principles, as outlined and explained in the manual:

Of course, a much shorter therapy (half the recommended length) means that it is considerably less expensive to deliver, and more patients can be seen as a result. This approach can be used to reduce your waiting times, and deliver effective treatment to patients whose financial resources or insurance would not cover much longer (but no less effective) therapies. The additional financial consideration is that we were able to deliver this with clinicians who were far less expensively trained.

So, CBT-T is faster and less expensive to deliver than existing therapies. However, that is not much help to you if CBT-T does not work well. Therefore, we developed an evidence base to support CBT-T, and found that a significant proportion achieve a good outcome if they complete the treatment according to this manual. The papers that show this are listed on this website.

Summary

CBT-T

All of this means that you can use CBT-T in your routine clinical practice and, as long as you use it as recommended, you can get the same results as you could get from longer, more expensive therapies.