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Managing Depression with CBT For Dummies
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11,99 € |
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Verlag: | Wiley |
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Veröffentl.: | 26.09.2012 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781118357170 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 224 |
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<b>Rise above depression with CBT</b> <p>Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a hugely popular self-help technique, which teaches you to break free from destructive or negative behaviours and make positive changes to both your thoughts and your actions. This practical guide to managing depression with CBT will help you understand your depression, identify solutions to your problems, and maintain your gains and avoid relapse.</p> <p><i>Managing Depression with CBT For Dummies</i> is a practical guide to using CBT to demolish depression by identifying and correcting negative thought patterns, recognizing the destructive power of ruminative thinking, confronting problems, and finding positive solutions.</p> <ul> <li>Helps you understand depression and how it develops</li> <li>Shows you how to correct negative thought patterns</li> <li>Gives you tried-and-true CBT techniques to combat your depression</li> </ul> <p>If you're struggling with depression, <i>Managing Depression with CBT For Dummies</i> gives you the tools you need to break down the barriers that prevent happiness from taking hold, and allowing you to build a positive future.</p>
Introduction 1 <p><b>Part I: Understanding Depression and How It Develops 7</b></p> <p>Chapter 1: Introducing Moods and Depression 9</p> <p>Chapter 2: Introducing the Basic Principles of CBT 29</p> <p><b>Part II: Putting What You Discover into Action 45</b></p> <p>Chapter 3: Thinking about Thinking 47</p> <p>Chapter 4: Changing Your Thinking to Change Your Life 61</p> <p>Chapter 5: Facing Your Feelings to Tackle Depression 75</p> <p>Chapter 6: Changing Your Attitudes to Combat Depression 97</p> <p>Chapter 7: Raising Self-Esteem to Increase Your Motivation 113</p> <p>Chapter 8: Developing Abilities that Challenge Depression 125</p> <p>Chapter 9: Being Mindful, not Mind-full: Developing Your Awareness 143</p> <p><b>Part III: Maintaining Momentum 155</b></p> <p>Chapter 10: Discovering the New, Healthy You 157</p> <p>Chapter 11: Reducing the Risk of Relapse 163</p> <p><b>Part IV: The Part of Tens 169</b></p> <p>Chapter 12: Ten Tips for Tackling Depression 171</p> <p>Chapter 13: Ten Tips to Challenge Distorted Thinking 177</p> <p>Appendix 183</p> <p>Index 191</p>
<p><b>Brian Thomson</b> is a Senior Lecturer on the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy MSc course at the University of Hertfordshire. He has 25 years' experience as a CBT therapist and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.<br /><br /><b> Matt Broadway-Horner</b> is a CBT therapist who works in the Central London office of CBT in the City. He specialises in treating depression, anxiety and trauma problems.</p>
<p>Discover powerful CBT techniques for putting depression behind you and learning to enjoy life again</p> <p>People who haven't suffered from depression don't understand that it's more than just feeling blue. They don't know how depression can swallow you whole, sapping your energy and initiative and destroying your ability to enjoy what life has to offer. Written by a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) team specialising in helping people beat depression, this book is a source of wise and compassionate guidance to help you achieve a depression-free life.</p> <ul> <li>Understand what depression is get to know the true nature of depression and how it differs from ordinary unhappiness</li> <li>Take control of your depression learn powerful CBT techniques for reprogramming your depressive patterns of thought and behaviour and replacing them with positive ones</li> <li>Get free and stay free make important lifestyle changes to help you maintain your mental and emotional balance and avoid slipping back into depression</li> </ul> <p>Open the book and find:</p> <ul> <li>What CBT is and why it works</li> <li>How to be objective about your depression</li> <li>The major symptoms of clinical depression</li> <li>Tips for raising your self-esteem and resilience</li> <li>Healthy lifestyle changes you can make to keep you depression free</li> <li>How to deal with setbacks and get support if you need it</li> </ul> <p><i>Learn to:</i></p> <ul> <li>Understand depression and how it develops</li> <li>Identify and correct negative thought patterns</li> <li>Combat your depression and rebalance your life</li> </ul>