Overcoming common problems
9 total works
Anxiety is a problem that affects the whole of people's lives and can prove quite debilitating. Thousands of people suffer from anxiety and would like to overcome it. Using the popular Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy approach, Windy Dryden shows how this can be done.
Wendy Dryden shows in this book how negative ways of thinking can cause people to become emotionally disturbed. She then shows that by controlling the way we think we can have control of our negative emotions.
A practical, confidence-building strategy is asserted in this book that focuses on the stresses and challenges of everyday living. It advises on how to deal with criticism and rejection, how to build assertiveness, and includes self-assessment exercises.
A guide to a key topic in personal happiness and well-being - accepting yourself as the person you are, with your own strengths and weaknesses. Using case histories, the author sets out the psychological ground rules for his three-step method to emotional health and confidence.
Sulking is not the same experience for everyone and sometimes people do not recognize it in themselves. This book explains the four components of sulking and suggests how to combat it. It spells out the principles of healthy self-assertion and considers the major obstacles and how to overcome them. This book will be appropriate for sulkers themselves and those trying to live or communicate with a habitual sulker. It advises what to do when faced with withdrawal, refusal to talk, and refusing to admit there's anything wrong. Examples from people who have broken the sulking cycle are included, together with exercises to help the reader identify sulking behaviour.
Using the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) to create a strategy for every-day meditation, the author of this book contends that these thought strategies are integral to a happy, healthy and well-balanced life.
Part of the Overcoming Common Problems series, this book provides the psychological methods necessary for dieters to achieve their goal. Designed to be used on its own or with any diet plan, it explains how to tackle temptations, and suggests how to develop healthier eating patterns.
Offers advice on how to improve your relationships by examining the things that go wrong. The book shows where to look for a perfect partner; how to tell if they are right for you; how to get into the habit of honest communication and how to stand up for your rights and get the respect you deserve.
Using the principles of Rational Emotive Therapy, popularized by Dr Paul Hauck, this book helps people deal with discomfort in life and offers advice on how to cope when things are not going as planned. It tells how to get things done, achieve goals and overcome inertia. The book covers the problems of those who take a masochistic approach to life's frustrations, and those who use "quick fixes" such as alcohol and drugs. It looks at the different types of discomfort people face in their lives, and discusses how to overcome the emotional problems which can result when things do not work out, such as anger, depression and self-pity.