I had heard that some Psychiatric nurses liked it.
I always understaood that it was a modern extention of CBT. The go to, cheap as chips, not very good, therapeutic self brainwashing technique.
Big claims of curing depression, eating disorders and a raft of other mentally distressing diagnoses in a miraculous 6 weeks, have all fallen by the wayside. After 10 weeks the symptoms always return and the client is not fixed in any way.
governments love it, because its cheap, and they can say they are addressing the mental health crisis in society, of which, they are solely and fully responsible for.
The psychologist undergraduate go to, to prove that CBT works and they are good at using graphs and figures.
A new client felt 10/10 depressed at his first session. At session 3 he was 8/10 depressed. At session 6 he was 6/10 depressed. clearly CBT cures depression by filling in a few forms. Write that up in your dissertation and get your degree.
Could this possibly be due to the fact that the client, for the first time in his life, actually had the opportunity to talk about his problems. Nothing to do with being taught how to use a CBT model.
The incessant form filling is totally, for me anyway, anti-therapy.
I worked in many different organisations over the years that banned outright the use of CBT.