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Judith S. Beck (born May 5, 1954) is an American psychologist who is best known for her work in cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Her father is Aaron Beck, the founder of cognitive therapy, with whom she has worked on many occasions. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. Career Writing Beck is the author of the widely adopted and widely cited textbook, Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond, which has been translated into 20 languages and is a basic textbook in the field for many students in psychiatry, psychology, counseling, social work, and psychiatric nursing in the U.S. and around the world. Her other books include Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems: What to Do When the Basics Don't Work, The Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy, Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, as well as The New York Times Best Seller (Advice/2007) The Beck Diet Solution and The Beck Diet Solution Weight Loss Workbook, The Complete Beck Diet for Life, and The Diet Trap Solution, a cognitive therapy approach to weight loss and maintenance. Beck co-developed the Beck Youth Scales for Social and Emotional Impairment and has written hundreds of articles, chapters, and books, for professionals and consumers, on the various applications of cognitive therapy in treatment and training. Beck Institute and teaching Beck is the President of the non-profit Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy in suburban Philadelphia. She is also a Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches residents. Beck directs the three major functions of the Beck Institute: education, clinical care, and research. In these capacities, she is involved with administration, teaching and supervising mental-health professionals, treating patients, writing, developing educational materials, and consultation. She is a consultant for research studies funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, and assists hospitals, residency training programs, community mental health centers, and other organizations in setting up or improving their cognitive therapy programs. Awards 1998-1999 Psychiatric Residents (III & IV) Faculty Teaching Award 2003-2004 Excellence in Cognitive Therapy Award 2007 Distinguished Contributions to the Science and Profession of Psychology 2007 Health Disparities Award 2009 Aaron T. Beck Award for Significant and Enduring Contributions to Cognitive Behavior Therapy 2009 Distinguished Workshop Presenter Award 2011 Outstanding Contributions by an Individual for Clinical Activities Award 2012 Earl Bond Award for Distinguished Teaching of Medical Students and Residents, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Department of Psychiatry 2017 Greater Philadelphia Social Innovations Award for Community and Behavioral Health Innovator, Social Innovations Journal 2017 Clinical Faculty Award, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 2018 Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa), Assumption CollegeSelected works Beck, J. S. (1995). Cognitive therapy: Basics and beyond. New York: Guilford. Beck, J. S. (2005). Cognitive therapy for challenging problems: What to do when the basics don’t work. New York: Guilford. Beck, J. S. (2007). The Beck Diet Solution. Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House Publications. Beck, J. S. (2007). Beck diet solution weight loss workbook: The 6-week plan to train your brain to think like a thin person. Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House Publications. Beck, J. S. (2011). Cognitive behavior therapy: Basics and beyond. 2nd ed. New York: Guilford Beck, J. S., & Beck, A. T. (2001). Beck youth inventories of emotional and social impairment. Texas: The Psychological Corporation. Beck, A., Freeman, A., Davis, D., A., Pretzer, J., Fleming, B., Ottaviani, R., Beck, J. S., Simon, K., Padesky, C., Meyer, J., & Trexler, L., & Associates. (2004). Cognitive therapy of personality disorders, 2nd ed. New York: Guilford. Gabbard, G., Beck, J. S., & Holmes, J. (Eds.) (2005). Oxford textbook of psychotherapy. London: Oxford University Press.See also Cognitive behavioral therapyReferences External links Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research. Discover the S A Beck popular books. Find the top 100 most popular S A Beck books.

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  • Ordinary Mind synopsis, comments

    Ordinary Mind

    Barry Magid & Charlotte Joko Beck

    Is meditation an escape fromor a solution toour psychological problems? Is the use of antidepressants counter to spiritual practice? Does a psychological approach to meditation red...

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    The Art of Virtue

    Benjamin Franklin

    An indispensable guide to right living from a Founding Father. Benjamin Franklin, one of our nation’s most revered founders, was a man of uncommonly fine common sense. Although he ...

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    Sold Out

    Michelle Malkin

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author and firebrand syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin sets her sights on the corrupt businessmen, politicians, and lobbyists flooding our bord...

  • Addicted to Outrage synopsis, comments

    Addicted to Outrage

    Glenn Beck

    Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Resetissues a startling challenge to people on both sides of the aisle: America is addicted to outrage, we’re at the ...

  • Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims synopsis, comments

    Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims

    Rush Limbaugh

    From America’s #1 radio talkshow host and multimillioncopy #1 New York Times bestselling author, a book for young readers with a history teacher who travels back in time to have ad...

  • Playing Dirty in Alaska synopsis, comments

    Playing Dirty in Alaska

    Samanthe Beck

    Bush pilot Bridget Shanahan runs from responsibility like a child runs from a dentist appointment, but when her brother leaves the family’s airfield in her hands, she knows it’s ti...

  • The Crescent Moon Tearoom synopsis, comments

    The Crescent Moon Tearoom

    Stacy Sivinski

    A cozy and uplifting debut novel about three clairvoyant sisters who face an unexpected twist of Fate at the bottom of their own delicate porcelain cups.Ever since the untimely dea...

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    The Country House

    Cathy Bramley

    Seeking: Highly organised Events Planner who can adapt to the unexpected... Holly has her life planned out, making her the perfect new events planner for Wickham Hall. She has alwa...

  • First Freedom synopsis, comments

    First Freedom

    David Harsanyi

    From one of America’s smartest political writers comes a “captivating and comprehensive journey” (#1 New York Times bestselling author David Limbaugh) of the United States’ unique ...

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    The Book of Pet Love and Loss

    Sara Bader

    A powerful collection of quotations by writers, leaders, and legends on the pain of losing a pet and overcoming grief.An animal’s love is deep, uncomplicated, unconditional, and fo...

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    How to Catch a Russian Spy

    Naveed Jamali & Ellis Henican

    With an epilogue on recent Russian spying, a “pageturner of a memoir” (Publishers Weekly) about an American civilian with a dream, who worked as a double agent with the FBI in the ...

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    Hide Your Children

    Liz Wheeler

    Having conquered all the major institutions of our culture, the left is closing in on its final frontieryour children. In this new book, Liz Wheeler exposes where the forces of wok...

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    Warming Up Julia Child

    Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

    A Pulitzer prizefinalist peels back the curtain on an unexplored part of Julia Child's lifethe formidable team of six she collaborated with to shape her legendary career.

  • Far from Here synopsis, comments

    Far from Here

    Nicole Baart

    From the author of Little Broken Thingsa suspenseful, breathtaking novel about true love, starting over, and finding the truth…at all costs. How long do you hold on to hope? Danica...

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    Rock the Boat

    Beck Dorey-Stein

    “[A] witty, heartfelt debut novel about a belated comingofage.”The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)Old friends discover how much has changed (and how much has stayed th...

  • Wombat Wins synopsis, comments

    Wombat Wins

    Jackie French & Bruce Whatley

    The school sports day is on and Mothball wombat is competing! She eats. She sleeps. She scratches. But can this wombat win? From the awardwinning, bestselling creators of Diary of ...

  • The Art of Virtue synopsis, comments

    The Art of Virtue

    Benjamin Franklin

    An indispensable guide to right living from a Founding Father. Benjamin Franklin, one of our nation’s most revered founders, was a man of uncommonly fine common sense. Although he ...

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    Sleeping in Eden

    Nicole Baart

    The lives of a middleaged doctor and a lovestruck young woman intersect across time in Sleeping in Eden, Nicole Baart’s haunting novel about love, jealousy, and the boundaries betw...

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    Four Wives

    Wendy Walker

    In Wendy Walker's brilliant debut, the lives of four wives and mothers intertwine and collide in a tale of suburban angst among outrageous wealth. On the outside, it appears as th...

  • The Resilience Factor synopsis, comments

    The Resilience Factor

    Karen Reivich & Andrew Shatte, Ph.D.

    Resilience is a crucial ingredient–perhaps the crucial ingredient–to a happy, healthy life. More than anything else, it's what determines how high we rise above what threatens to w...

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    Entertain Us

    Craig Schuftan

    The Rise and Fall of Alternative Rock in the Nineties In 1990 alternative music was where it belonged underground. It left the business of rock stardom to rock stars. But by 1992 ...

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    Lysistrata and Other Plays

    Aristophanes & Alan H. Sommerstein

    The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands'Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwrig...

  • Little Broken Things synopsis, comments

    Little Broken Things

    Nicole Baart

    “If you liked Big Little Lies, you’ll want to crack open [Little Broken Things].” Southern LivingAn unforgettable and moving novel about an affluent suburban family whose carefully...

  • Mine synopsis, comments

    Mine

    Courtney Cole

    Tessa was prepared for the hurricane. Lindsey was the storm she didn’t see coming.When Tessa Taylor unlocked her husband Ethan’s iPad to discover nude photos from a twentysixyearol...

  • Saving Beck synopsis, comments

    Saving Beck

    Courtney Cole

    From New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole comes “a raw, powerful, heartwrenching read” (Robyn Harding, international bestselling author of The Party) about a son’s heroi...

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    Knocked Up in Alaska

    Samanthe Beck

    Everyone in Captivity, Alaska now knows Lilah Iquat’s big (and getting bigger) secret. She’s knocked up. Pregnant. All it took was a foolish decision with lasting consequences. Now...

  • Masquerade synopsis, comments

    Masquerade

    Tivadar Soros, Humphrey Tonkin, George Soros & Paul Soros

    The Nazis came late to Hungary because, until early 1944, Germany and Hungary were allies. But when they did arrive, their orders were to put the “Final Solution” into effect with ...

  • The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim synopsis, comments

    The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim

    Iceberg Slim

    Iceberg Slim described himself as “ill…from America’s fake façade of justice and democracy,” an illness that may have been a detriment, but evolved into the tales that serve as a c...

  • Breaking the News synopsis, comments

    Breaking the News

    ALEX MARLOW

    From the editor in chief of Breitbart News, the New York Times bestselling “mustread” (Sean Hannity) investigation into how the establishment media became weaponized against Donald...

  • Mama Black Widow synopsis, comments

    Mama Black Widow

    Iceberg Slim

    “Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I’ve ever heard in my life.” Dave Chappelle, from his Netflix special The Bird RevelationThe most gritty and real...

  • True Blue synopsis, comments

    True Blue

    Stephen Friend, Terry Turchie & Miranda Devine

    As seen on Huckabee A suspended special agent explains his decision to turn whistleblower and expose FBI politicization and abuse against conservative America.Stephen Friend had hi...

  • James S. P. Beck v. Alton Smith Beck synopsis, comments

    James S. P. Beck v. Alton Smith Beck

    Supreme Court of Alabama

    LAWSON, Justice. This is an appeal from a final decree of the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County, in Equity, rendered in a declaratory judgment proceeding, which decree ...

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    Housekeeper at His Beck and Call

    Susan Stephens

    Lieutenant Cade Grant is rugged and gorgeous, but his heart is as hard as they come.Innocent Liv needs work fast; if she has to be housekeeper to the brooding lieutenant then so be...