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Mind Over Mood: Change the way you feel by changing the way you think
Dennis Greenberger, PhD & Christine A. Padesky, PhD
"Only rarely does a book come along that can change your life. Mind Over Mood... can be both a vehicle and a road map for people seeking to make fundamental change." - Aaron T. Beck, From the Foreword
Mind Over Mood offers deceptively simple but powerful and sophisticated strategies for coping with depressed and anxious moods and interpersonal difficulties. This is a book for 'hands-on' use; it provides step-by-step descriptions of strategies that have been shown in controlled outcome studies to be effective. Mind Over Mood makes an outstanding contribution; I recommend it without reservation -- Jacqueline B. Persons, PhD, Center for Cognitive Therapy, Oakland, California |
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Overcoming Depression and Low Mood: A Five Areas Approach
By Dr Chris Williams
Fully updated and based on extensive feedback, Overcoming Depression and Low Mood is a series of short self-help workbooks for use by people experiencing low mood and depression. Developed in liaison with a wide range of experts, the course provides access to the proven Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) approach. Providing accessible information and teaching key life skills the workbooks provide a practical and effective way of improving how you feel.
Compassionate and supportive, the Overcoming Depression and Low Mood course addresses all the common challenges faced during times of low mood. It is empowering and encouraging, helping readers to make positive changes to their lives in a planned and achievable way. |
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Overcoming Anxiety: A Five Areas Approach
By Dr Chris Williams
Overcoming anxiety: a five areas approach is a modular course that has been designed to help readers understand the factors that keep problems of anxiety going. It also teaches key skills of self-management so that the reader will learn the key elements of skills such as tackling practical problems, being more assertive, establishing a regular sleep pattern and challenging fearful worries.
The book covers the whole range of common anxiety presentations including worry, panic, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder – and also presentations with long-term physical ill-health including cases where anxiety problems are absent. |
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Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: A Practical Guide
By Dr Adrian Wells
"Adrian Wells provides here a comprehensive overview of the cognitive model of anxiety disorders and illustrates how detailed, disorder-specific cognitive conceptualizations inform the choice of therapeutic interventions. The book incorporates the most up-to-date theory of anxiety disorders, much of it originated by the author. Dr Wells provides an array of effective, user-friendly cognitive techniques and vivid case examples. Students and seasoned therapists will find this volume valuable." Aaron T. Beck |
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Overcoming Social Anxiety & Shyness
By Gillian Butler
Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness is a self-help manual for this common problem, which explains why it happens and sets out practical methods of resolving it. Everyone sometimes feels foolish, embarrassed, judged or criticised, but this becomes a problem when it undermines their confidence and prevents them doing what they want to do. This easy-to-use guide, full of real-life examples, is for those who suffer from all degrees of social anxiety and shyness, for their families and friends, and for the professionals who help them: psychologists, doctors and others. Explains the many forms and causes of social anxiety. Contains a complete self-help program and work sheets. Is based on clinically proven techniques of cognitive therapy. |
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Overcoming Low Self-Esteem
By Dr Melanie Fennell
This is a very useful book that achieves its stated aims of explaining the nature of low self esteem and self- destructive thinking, providing a complete self-help programme and monitoring sheets and basing its advice on clinically proven techniques of cognitive therapy. -- Peter Kidd, trained Community Psychiatric Nurse |
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Living with Fear
By Isaac M. Marks
This self-help guide gives practical advice to people who are suffering from phobias, panic, obsessions, rituals or traumatic distress. In this second edition the author has also included new phobias such as the fear of AIDs contamination as well as the latest treatments. The case examples in this edition are drawn from many parts of the world. References, examples and case studies are also provided. |
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Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
By Susan Jeffers
Based on a course taught at the New School for Social Research, this book offers readers a clear-cut plan for action that, when followed, should help them unlearn their misconceptions about fear and replace them with attitudes of strength and conviction. By mixing positive thinking with situational exercises that examine basic fear responses, psychologist Jeffers shows that fear is what you make of it and that in most cases it is unfounded. She also illustrates key points through examining case studies, which show that when we are fearful, faulty thinking is most often the real culprit; when such thinking is corrected, the fear is gone. |
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Overcoming Childhood Trauma
By Helen Kennerley
This is a self-help manual for those who have suffered abuse in childhood and who now struggle with the legacy of this. Abuse in childhood can be the source of enduring difficulties for many, whether the abuse was emotional, physical or sexual in nature. |
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook for Dummies
By Rhena Branch & Rob Willson
CBT is a proven and effective approach to mastering your thoughts, and here the authors of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies show you how to put the ideas from their book into practice. Inside you′ll find a huge number of hands–on exercises and techniques to help you remove roadblocks to change – whether you′re seeking to overcome anxiety and depression, boost self–esteem, improve your relationships, or simply improve your outlook in your professional and personal life. |
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