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A hands-on workbook for therapy clients suffering from depression, panic attacks, anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse, and relationship problems, using case examples and written exercises to help clients understand and use cognitive therapy methods. Includes sample worksheets and blank worksheets for reproduction. Can be used as a framework for treatment, an adjunct to treatment, or to pinpoint specific skills development. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.


Review
"Mind Over Mood and its companion piece...promise to be classics. No managed care report leaves my desk without a direct reference in the treatment plan to this outstanding set of manuals."--The Orange County Psychologist



Jacqueline B. Persons, PhD, Center for Cognitive Therapy, Oakland, California
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


The Orange County Psychologist, July/Aug 1996
Mind Over Mood and its companion piece...promise to be classics. No managed care report leaves my desk without a direct reference in the treatment plan to this outstanding set of manuals


Review
"Mind Over Mood and its companion piece...promise to be classics. No managed care report leaves my desk without a direct reference in the treatment plan to this outstanding set of manuals."--The Orange County Psychologist



Book Description
Developed by two master clinicians with extensive experience in cognitive therapy treatment and training, this popular workbook shows readers how to improve their lives using cognitive therapy/m-/one of the most effective and widely practiced forms of psychotherapy. The book is designed to be used alone or in conjunction with professional treatment. Step-by-step worksheets teach specific skills that have helped thousands of people conquer depression, panic attacks, anxiety, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, eating disorders, substance abuse and relationship problems. Readers learn to use mood questionnaires to identify, rate, and track changes in feelings; change the thoughts that contribute to problems; follow step-by-step strategies to improve moods; and take action to improve daily living and relationships. The book's large-size format and lay-flat binding facilitate reading and writing ease.



Book Info
Anxiety and Depression Treatment Center, Santa Ana, California. Patient manual designed to reinforce cognitive therapy by teaching clients how to set treatment goals, test automatic thoughts, and record thoughts and feelings. Workbook format. Companion clinician's guide to be published soon.


About the Author
Dennis Greenberger, PhD, clinical psychologist, is Director of the Anxiety and Depression Treatment Center in Santa Ana, California, and Assistant Clinical Professor at the College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine. Founder and former director of an inpatient cognitive therapy program, he also conducts training workshops in cognitive therapy.

Christine A. Padesky, PhD, clinical psychologist, is a Distinguished Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Coauthor of five books, she is an internationally recognized speaker and a recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to Psychology Award from the California Psychological Association. Her Center for Cognitive Therapy, in Huntington Beach, California, hosts <i>www.MindOverMood.com</i>, a website for the public.



Excerpted from Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger, Christine Padesky. Copyright © 1995. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Foreword Prologue 1. Understanding Your Problems 2. It's the Thought That Counts 3. Identifying and Rating Moods 4. Situations, Moods, and Thoughts 5. Automatic Thoughts 6. Where's the Evidence? 7. Alternative or Balanced Thinking 8. Experiments and Action Plans 9. Assumptions and Core Beliefs 10. Understanding Depression 11. Understanding Anxiety 12. Understanding Anger, Guilt and Shame Epilogue Appendix A Worksheets

ANNOTATION

"...promotes using cognitive therapy to conquer attacks of depression, panic, anxiety, anger, guilt, shame, and low self-esteem...can be used by persons enrolled or not enrolled in therapy."

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Written by two clinical psychologists, this manual shows you how to improve your life using cognitive therapy - one of the most effective and widely practiced forms of psychotherapy. Step-by-step worksheets teach you specific skills that have helped thousands of people conquer depression, panic attacks, anxiety, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, eating disorders, substance abuse, and relationship problems.

SYNOPSIS

Developed by two master clinicians with extensive experience in cognitive therapy treatment and training, this popular workbook shows readers how to improve their lives using cognitive therapy-one of the most effective and widely practiced forms of psychotherapy. The book is designed to be used alone or in conjunction with professional treatment. Step-by-step worksheets teach specific skills that have helped thousands of people conquer depression, panic attacks, anxiety, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, eating disorders, substance abuse and relationship problems. Readers learn to use mood questionnaires to identify, rate, and track changes in feelings; change the thoughts that contribute to problems; follow step-by-step strategies to improve moods; and take action to improve daily living and relationships. The book's large-size format and lay-flat binding facilitate reading and writing ease.

FROM THE CRITICS

Booknews

A hands-on workbook for therapy clients suffering from depression, panic attacks, anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse, and relationship problems, using case examples and written exercises to help clients understand and use cognitive therapy methods. Includes sample worksheets and blank worksheets for reproduction. Can be used as a framework for treatment, an adjunct to treatment, or to pinpoint specific skills development. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

I recommend Mind Over Mood for those who are serious in their commitment to psychological change. [It's] a true self-help text in which easy... exercises lead readers to deeper understanding and... control over their inner lives.  — Laura Schlessinger, Ph.D., author of Ten Stupid Things Women do to Mess up their Lives