Preface, Instructional video guide, Clinical Tools Guide, Contributors

The six authors who took a life journey together for more than a year to craft this book come from highly divergent personal and professional backgrounds. Not only do they reside in four different countries but they also practice in contexts ranging from a private, multidisciplinary psychiatry clinic, to a “solo” psychiatric outpatient practice, to a consultation-liaison psychiatry service situated within a large commercial health care system, to an inpatient affective disorders unit, and to a university-based psychiatry department and associated psychiatric residency program. Despite their divergent professional experiences, what brought this group of authors together was both a belief in the value of the practice of psychiatry and a shared conviction that systematically integrating an evidence-based psychotherapeutic approach within the current practice of psychiatry can increase patient well-being and promote better clinical outcomes. Most importantly, we believe that when you see the positive benefits of this new approach unfold, even with your “difficult” patients, it will make the practice of psychiatry more professionally and personally rewarding.