Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies Author: Visit Amazon's Rhena Branch Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0470665416 | Format: PDF
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies Description
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Enhance your outlook and develop new ways of thinkingCognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on how you react to a situation, encouraging you to create new thought patterns to combat destructive beliefs and actions. This bestselling guide to CBT helps you identify the negative modes of thinking that have been holding you back and shows you how to assess and combat them. With new content on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and on overcoming addiction, this book is your toolkit for success. Whether you want to rise above anxiety or depression, boost your self-esteem or simply improve your overall outlook, the building blocks for a happier life are right here.
Read the signs – learn to explore your emotions and spot errors in your thinking
Maintain your mind – use psychological gardening to weed out negative thoughts and watch your positivity bloom
Set the goalposts of success – train your sights on achievable tasks and look forward to the future
Don't be afraid – discover how to control your anxiety and learn to face your fears
Kick the habit – develop key skills to eradicate addictions and problem behaviour from your everyday life
Open the book and find:
Techniques to refocus and retrain your awareness
Why some 'solutions' are actually causing you problems
Ways to get rid of unhealthy guilt
How to tackle eating disorders and body dysmorphia
The benefits of loosening your grip on control
Ways to maintain and strengthen positive beliefs
Guidance on accepting your past and enjoying the present
How to lighten up and enjoy life
Learn to:
Identify and tackle toxic thought patterns
Banish the behaviours that are holding you back
Use CBT to overcome addiction, depression, anger, and more
Reassess your past and address the present to achieve a happier, healthier life
About the Author
Rhena Branch and
Rob Willson are CBT therapists who work in private practice in North London. They both teach and supervise the MSc CBT course at Goldsmiths, having previously worked at The Priory clinic in London. They are the co-authors of
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook For Dummies and
Boosting Self-Esteem For Dummies.
- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons; 2nd edition (October 15, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470665416
- ISBN-13: 978-0470665411
- Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Excellent manual. CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, is a school of psychotherapy that aims to help people overcome their emotional problems. This book will be useful for persons in therapy as well as for anyone desiring a closer look at this preferred method of dealing with emotional and psychological problems. The authors are therapists who practice CBT, and this book is in its second edition. Thorough yet highly readable. Very little knowledge is taken for granted. For instance, I found their listing of common emotions helpful. (Part II, Defining Problems and Setting Goals) They are: angry, anxious, ashamed, disappointed, embarrassed, envious, guilty, hurt, jealous, love, sad. You may think this facile, yet each of these major emotions has about a dozen synonyms to help you identify your feelings. Then you may ask, are they healthy or unhealthy emotions? If you identify an unhealthy emotion, can you turn it into a healthy negative emotion? You will learn to challenge common thinking errors. Most people in therapy have already read David Burns' book, Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy. CBT for Dummies takes that material farther. In a section entitled "Spotting Errors in Your Thinking", I found a good review of these cognitive distortions: catastrophising, all-or-nothing thinking, fortune telling, mind reading, emotional reasoning, overgeneralizing, labeling, making demands, mental filtering, disqualifying the positive, low frustration tolerance, and personalizing.
Each chapter begins with very specific goals for that section and exercises to implement the material. Jargon is often used, but explained.
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