“In reading Practicing Positive CBT there is a sense of being in the presence of a gifted, engaging, enthusiastic and inspiring therapist. The book practices what it preaches in supporting therapists to become more effective and successful, and I suspect enjoying their work along the way.”
Professor Willem Kuyken
University of Exeter, UK

“Practicing Positive CBT offers the best constructive vision to date of what CBT can look like when joined with positive psychology and solution focused brief therapy approaches. Bannink highlights positive therapy methods already embedded in CBT and offers a wealth of practical suggestions for how CBT therapists can become more positive in every aspect of therapy. Whether dipping into particular chapters for creative inspiration or studying this book cover to cover, therapists of all experience levels will find value on every page.”
Christine A. Padesky, PhD
Co-Author, Collaborative Case Conceptualization, Center for Cognitive Therapy, California, USA

“In this masterful and very accessible book Dr. Bannink captures the essential importance of building on positive feelings, motives, imagery, memories and behaviors. The psychology of ‘cultivation,’ so much a focus in Buddhist approaches to human suffering, is brought to life in new ways with extensive knowledge of the research literature. Full of fascinating insights and practical applications, this is a book to change what we focus on and how we work in helping people change. A book to read many times.”
Professor Paul Gilbert, PhD, FBPsS, OBE
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK

“Positive Psychology is a research-based approach. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is often focused on cognitions and behaviors that don’t serve people well.
Fredrike Bannink takes these two approaches, combines them with the best of solution-focused, strength-oriented clinical methods and blends them into a seamless combination that can help any therapist or coach be more effective.
Like discovering the restaurant of a master chef who has invented a new fusion of different culinary traditions, Bannink’s approach will leave you excited and satisfied.”
Bill O’Hanlon
Psychotherapist and author of Do one thing different and The Change your life book, USA

“This book describes Fredrike Bannink’s synthesis of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Positive Psychology and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. She names this Positive CBT. The emphasis is both on losing negative thoughts, emotions and behavior, and enhancing positive experiences.
As usual with her work, Fredrike has read very widely, including neuroscience, Appreciative Inquiry, Motivational Interviewing and many variations on the theme of CBT. In the text she demonstrates how to adapt Positive CBT to a number of the existing models and problems. The writing is clear and engaging. There are many illustrations with intriguing and apt stories about humans and other species. Case studies and exercises demonstrate how Positive CBT may be applied.
Fredrike Bannink is also skilled in mediation and conflict management. Given the present ideological split between ‘traditional’ CBT, Positive Psychology and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, this book may begin an interesting rapprochement between these therapies and their practitioners.”
Dr. Alasdair J. Macdonald MB ChB FRCPsych DPM DCH
Consultant Psychiatrist, UK