David D.

Burns

David D. Burns (born September 19,

1942) is an adjunct professor emeritus in
the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford
University School of Medicine and the
author of the best-selling books Feeling
Good: The New Mood Therapy and The
Feeling Good Handbook. Burns
popularized Aaron T. Beck's cognitive
behavioral therapy (CBT) when his book
became a best seller during the 1980s.[1]
 David D. Burns
Born September 19, 1942

Nationality American

Citizenship USA

Scientific career

Fields Cognitive Behavioral

Therapy

Institutions Stanford University

Early life
Burns' father was a Lutheran minister.[2]

Education
Burns received his B.A. from Amherst
College in 1964 and his M.D. from the
Stanford University School of Medicine in
1970. He completed his residency
training in psychiatry in 1974 at the
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine, and was certified by the
American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology in 1976. Burns is the author of
numerous research studies, book
chapters and books. He also gives
lectures and conducts many
psychotherapy training workshops for
mental health professionals throughout
the United States and Canada each year.
He has won many awards for his
research and teaching, and has been
named "Teacher of the Year" three times
by the graduating class of psychiatric
residents at the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Burns was an early student of Aaron T.

Beck, who developed cognitive therapy
during the 1960s and 1970s. Cognitive
therapy was also based on the
pioneering work of Albert Ellis, who
popularized the notion that our thoughts
and beliefs create our moods during the
1950s. However, the basic concept
behind cognitive therapy goes all the way
back to Epictetus, the Greek philosopher.
Nearly 2,000 years ago he wrote that
people are disturbed not by things, but by
the views we take of them. In other
words, our thoughts (or "cognitions")
create all of our feelings. Thus when we
make healthy changes in the way we
think, we experience healthy changes in
the way we feel.

Career
TEAM

Burns developed a new approach to

psychotherapy called T.E.A.M. Therapy.
T.E.A.M. is an acronym denoting: Testing,
Empathy, Agenda Setting and Methods.
These are the basic tools which separate
TEAM therapy from other forms of
cognitive behavioral therapies.[3] TEAM
addresses some of the shortcomings in
cognitive therapy, and is based on the
notion that motivation influences our
thoughts, feelings, and actions just as
much as our thoughts (or cognitions).
Burns states that he draws from at least
15 schools of therapy, and hopes that the
TEAM approach will be as revolutionary a
breakthrough in psychotherapy as CBT
was decades ago.[4]

Stanford

Burns is on the voluntary faculty of the

Stanford University School of Medicine,
where he is actively involved in research
and training. He has also served as a
statistical consultant for Stanford's new
Center for Interdisciplinary Brain
Sciences Research. He has also served
as Visiting Scholar at the Harvard
Medical School and Acting Chief of
Psychiatry at the Presbyterian /
University of Pennsylvania Medical
Center in Philadelphia.

Burns Depression Checklist

The BDC is a rating scale for depression

copyrighted by Burns. The 1984 version
was a 15-question survey; the 1996
revision is a 25-question survey. Each
question is answered in the context of
"during the past week, including today"
and on a scale of 0 to 4, with 0 being "not
at all" and 4 being "extremely." For Burns,
the BDC replaced Aaron Beck's BDI which
appeared in the 1980 edition of Feeling
Good (that Burns says he was grateful for
permission to reproduce).[5]

Burns has also developed brief scales to

measure depression, suicidal urges,
anxiety, anger, and relationship
satisfaction, as well as scales to assess
the quality of the therapeutic alliance and
effectiveness. These scales have high
reliability (generally above .90) and each
scale can be completed by patients and
scored in less than 15 seconds. Burns
and his colleagues require patients to
complete these instruments in the
waiting room just before and after each
therapy session, so therapists can see
how much progress the patient has
made, or failed to make. Based on this
information, therapists can change
strategies if needed. Patients also rate
therapists on warmth, empathy, and
helpfulness in the waiting room after
each session so therapists can see with
much greater accuracy how their
patients feel about them and the therapy.

Awards and honors

1975: Winner of A. E. Bennett Award
for Basic Psychiatric Research (Society
of Biological Psychiatry)
1991: Commendation from the Georgia
State Senate “for contributions. . .
helping people overcome emotional
troubles. . . in times of trouble and
anguish. ” (State Resolution 15 EX)
1995: Distinguished Contribution to
Psychology through the Media Award
from the American Association of
Applied and Preventive Psychology
1998, 2000, and 2002: Recognition of
excellence in teaching (Clinical Faculty
Teacher of the Year Award),
Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
University School of Medicine
 2002: Outstanding Contributions
Award from the National Association
of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists, for
"outstanding contributions &
dedication to the theory and practice
of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy."

Books
Burns, D. D. (1980). Feeling Good: The
New Mood Therapy (preface by Aaron
T. Beck). New York: Wm. Morrow and
Co. (hardbound); New American
Library, 1981 (paperback). Revised and
updated, 1999. — ISBN 0-380-81033-6
Burns, D. D. (1984). Intimate
Connections. New York: William
Morrow and Co. (hardbound); New
American Library, 1985 (paperback). —
ISBN 0-451-14845-2
Burns, D. D. (1989). The Feeling Good
Handbook. New York: William Morrow
and Co., (hardbound); Plume, 1990
(trade paperback) Revised and
updated, 1999. — ISBN 0-452-28132-6
Burns, D. D. (1993). Ten Days to Self-
Esteem. New York: Quill. 1999. Revised
edition. — ISBN 0-688-09455-4
Burns, D. D. (1993). Ten Days to Self-
Esteem: The Leader's Manual. New
York: Quill. — ISBN 0-688-12708-8
Burns, D. D. (1995). Therapist’s Toolkit:
Comprehensive Treatment and
Assessment Tools for the Mental Health
Professional. Philadelphia: Author.
Updated in 1997 and 2006.
Burns, D. D. (2002). Let's Get Started.
Alexandria: Time-Life Inc.
Burns, D. D. (2002). Fifty Ways to
Untwist Your Thinking. Alexandria:
Time-Life Inc.
Burns, D. D. (2002). Selecting the
Techniques that Will Work for You.
Alexandria: Time-Life Inc.
Burns, D. D. (2006). When Panic
Attacks. New York: Morgan Road
Books. — ISBN 0-7679-2071-6
Burns, D. D. (2008). Feeling Good
Together. New York: Broadway Books. -
ISBN 978-0-7679-2070-4
Audio
Burns, D.D. (2006). When Panic Attacks:
The New, Drug-Free Anxiety Treatment
That Can Change Your Life (CD).
HarperAudio, 2006. - ISBN 0-06-
057710-X

See also
Aaron T. Beck
Albert Ellis
Cognitive therapy
William Glasser

References
1. "History of Cognitive-Behavioral
Therapy" . National Association of
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists. Archived
from the original on November 26, 2010.
Retrieved March 8, 2011.
2. Strauss, Robert L. (September 2013).
"Mind Over Misery" . Stanford Alumni.
Retrieved 12 January 2017.
3. "Empathy Based CBT: TEAM" .
Mindfulness Therapy Associates.
Retrieved 5 February 2018.
4. Strauss, Robert L. (2013). "Mind Over
Misery" . Stanford Alumni. Retrieved
5 February 2018.
5. Burns, David D. (1999). Feeling Good:
The New Mood Therapy. Avon Books
(Whole Care). pp. 20–21. ISBN 0-380-
81033-6.

External links
 Dr. David D. Burns' Website
Dr. David D. Burns' Autobiography

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