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Teach Yourself (McGraw-Hill)

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Rethink how you think, feel, and behave "Get Started with CBT" is the essential guide to this incredibly popular and successful therapy. Whether you want to learn CBT techniques to practice "self-therapy," are preparing to see a therapist, or are already a trained counselor but would like to learn more about CBT, this book explains it all. CBT helps you to evaluate how you think, feel and behave. It aims to replace self-defeating and irrational thoughts with more realistic, self-accepting and affirming beliefs, helping you to overcome problems by breaking them down into small, manageable parts and improving your state of mind. You can also visit teachyourself.com for tests, extension articles and a vibrant community of like-minded learners. And if you don't have much time, don't worry--this book gives you one-, five-, and 10-minute bites of learning to get you started.

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Beat Stress with CBT

by Stephen Palmer and Christine Wilding

Published 25 November 2011

Is your stress threatening to take over your life?

Beat Stress with CBT is a clear, hands-on, practical guide to dealing with stress in every situation. It uses an effective, drug-free approach - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - that will give you lasting support and solutions to your stress.

Using CBT, you can identify your reaction to stressful situations, and pick out the aspects of your life or personality which feel uncontrollable. This book will give you a straightforward method of measuring and reducing your stress levels, and help you to tackle the related problems such as poor sleep, anxiety, depression or disordered eating or drinking. Using a mixture of immediate solutions and long-term strategies, CBT will help you rework your mindset and find a healthier, less stressful way of life.

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Is this the right book for me?

Boost emotional awareness in any part of your life
Change Your Life with Emotional Intelligence takes Daniel Goleman's revolutionary psychological theory and transforms it into practical self-help for you to boost emotional awareness in any part of your life. It introduces you to the principles of EI, explaining why the qualities of assertiveness, perception, motivation etc really matter if you want to live a fulfilled and successful life. The book takes an applied approach, encouraging you first to understand your own emotional identity, then to develop life skills like developing a sense of responsibility, overcoming anger and being more assertive. It will help you to use these skills to transform relationships with those around you, either in the workplace or in personal relationships and will even offer insight into how to help your children develop emotional intelligence. It is full of interactive exercises, top tips and and motivational quotes and offers plenty of further resources.


Change Your Life With Emotional Intelligence includes:

Part one - Understanding emotional intelligence
Chapter 1: Emotional intelligence: a first look
Chapter 2: Why is emotional intelligence so important?

Part two - Emotional intelligence and you: becoming personally competent
Chapter 3: How do you see yourself
Chapter 4: Thinking straight
Chapter 5: Developing your personal core values
Chapter 6: Emotional intelligence and resilience
Chapter 7: Using emotional intelligence to defeat anger

Part three - Emotional intelligence and others
Chapter 8: Social responsibility
Chapter 9: Developing communication skills
Chapter 10: Emotional intelligence in the workplace
Chapter 11: Emotional intelligence within an intimate relationship
Chapter 12: Developing emotionally intelligent children


Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features:

Not got much time?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.

Author insights
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.

Test yourself
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.

Extend your knowledge
Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of the subject.

Five things to remember
Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

Try this
Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

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