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 Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., is the Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in suburban Philadelphia and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. Dr. Beck is internationally renowned in the field of Cognitive Therapy. She wrote the basic textbook, Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond, which has been translated into 18 languages, and has authored several other books and numerous articles and chapters on various applications of Cognitive Therapy. She has presented hundreds of workshops in the United States and abroad and is the President of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. HER MISSION Several years ago, Dr. Beck decided to write a consumer-oriented book on using Cognitive Therapy to lose weight and maintain weight loss. For many years she had been helping patients with weight loss aspirations achieve their goals, and she realized that others would benefit from learning the same techniques she was teaching these patients. At first, no publisher was interested in the manuscript. They all said that she had to include a diet in the book itself. But Dr. Beck had found that her patients succeeded on a variety of nutritious weight-loss diets. The crucial ingredient was not the diet itself; it was learning to implement cognitive (thinking) and behavioral skills consistently. She persevered until she found a publisher, Oxmoor House, that shared her perspective. HER WORK Dr. Beck is involved in many different professional activities. She and her father, Aaron T. Beck, M.D., established the non-profit Beck Institute in 1994. She directs the three major functions of the Beck Institute: education, clinical care, and research. She divides her time between supervision, clinical work, administration, research, program development, and writing. She is a consultant for several National Institute of Mental Health research studies and teaches Cognitive Therapy worldwide. Find out about Judith Beck's upcoming Weight-loss Workshops |
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