Change Your Life with CBT: How Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Can Transform Your Life, 1st edition

Published by Pearson Life (October 14, 2010) © 2011

  • Corinne Sweet
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Title overview

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy has already helped millions of people overcome their issues and move their life forward – now it can really help you too.

 

In this busy, demanding and often stressful modern world, it’s a struggle to find time to even think about what your dreams and goals might be, let alone work towards actually realising them.

 

It’s so easy to get stuck in a routine, to opt for the easy answers, to feel a lack of inspiration and motivation and then wind up feeling anxious and depressed. Far from being an exciting or invigorating prospect, the mere idea of changing anything about your life soon seems hard work, scary and something to be avoided.

 

But your life really can be better than it is now - you just need to learn how to really believe it can.

 

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, can lend a hand. It will help you change the way you think and feel about yourself, about others and about the world around. As you begin to feel more positive, more motivated and more confident you’ll soon begin to realise that your future is fully in your control.

 

The scientifically-proven techniques of CBT are a powerful force to harness. Written by a leading psychologist, Change Your Life with CBT will deliver these tried and tested tools in an accessible package full of exercises, examples and practical advice and guidance .

 

So if you’re feeling that your life has got stuck in first gear, or even stuck in reverse, and if you believe that the main thing holding you back is probably yourself, Change Your Life with CBT can help you overcome your barriers and start to achieve your goals at home, at work and throughout your whole life.

 

 

 

Table of contents

Contents

 

Acknowledgements

 

Part 1   Understanding the CBT viewpoint

     1     How can I change my life with CBT?

            Time for change

            The change paradox

            Why CBT?

            How does CBT work?

            Introducing Mr Beck

            CBT: the popular theory

            Ideas at the heart of CBT: a taster

            Can CBT work for me?

            What would you really like to change?

            Setting goals

            Finally, making the decision to change

            So now the big question: is CBT for you?

 

     2     Understanding what makes you tick

            Take a fresh look at yourself

            The CBT viewpoint

            Understanding how your thoughts tick

            You have your own unique point of view

            Resistance to change

 

     3     Noticing your negative thoughts

              Spot negative thinking in everyday life

              Understanding emotions the CBT way

              Negative automatic thoughts

              Dysfunctional assumptions

              Core beliefs

              The forensic approach to your emotions

              Unhealthy emotions

              What to do with your Thought Record

 

     4     Tracking and taming your ‘thinking errors’

              A self-fulfilling prophecy

              Identifying 'thinking errors'

              Beck’s negative Cognitive Triad

              Top ten thinking errors

 

     5     Testing yourself to get better

              Hot thoughts and triggers

    

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