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Managing Depression with CBT For Dummies - by Brian Thomson & Matt Broadway-Horner (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Rise above depression with CBT 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.
- About the Author: Brian Thomson is a Senior Lecturer on the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy MSc course at the University of Hertfordshire.
- 224 Pages
- Self Improvement, Mood Disorders
- Series Name: For Dummies
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About the Book
Explores cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a self-help technique which may help people break free from destructive or negative behaviors and make positive changes to both thoughts and actions.Book Synopsis
Rise above depression with CBTCognitive 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.
Managing Depression with CBT For Dummies 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.
- Helps you understand depression and how it develops
- Shows you how to correct negative thought patterns
- Gives you tried-and-true CBT techniques to combat your depression
If you're struggling with depression, Managing Depression with CBT For Dummies 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.
From the Back Cover
Discover powerful CBT techniques for putting depression behind you and learning to enjoy life again
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.
- Understand what depression is - get to know the true nature of depression and how it differs from ordinary unhappiness
- Take control of your depression - learn powerful CBT techniques for reprogramming your depressive patterns of thought and behaviour and replacing them with positive ones
- Get free and stay free - make important lifestyle changes to help you maintain your mental and emotional balance and avoid slipping back into depression
Open the book and find:
- What CBT is and why it works
- How to be objective about your depression
- The major symptoms of clinical depression
- Tips for raising your self-esteem and resilience
- Healthy lifestyle changes you can make to keep you depression free
- How to deal with setbacks and get support if you need it
Learn to:
- Understand depression and how it develops
- Identify and correct negative thought patterns
- Combat your depression and rebalance your life
About the Author
Brian Thomson 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.
Matt Broadway-Horner 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.
