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Manage Your Mind is a book for building resilience, overcoming
emotional difficulties and enabling self-development. It is for any
of us who wish to understand ourselves better, to be more effective
in day-to-day life, or to overcome current problems; or who want to
support others in these tasks. The authors have, between them,
almost 100 years of experience of helping people through difficult
times. This experience, together with the results from scientific
research, leads to Manage Your Mind distilling effective techniques
and ideas so that readers can select those that suit their
preferences and needs. The book explains and illustrates how to
respond skilfully to life's challenges. The first part of the book
helps us gain a better understanding of ourselves and provides
tools for clarifying what we most value in life. It highlights the
benefits of the practice of acceptance and kindness, and shows how
to build self-esteem and self-confidence. The second part of the
book presents practical tools and methods for making our way in the
world that are relevant to everyone. This includes the importance
of perspective and how we can best use our thinking skills. It also
covers everyday topics such as the value of useful habits, time
management, looking after our physical health, and increasing
happiness, well-being and creativity. The final section focuses on
how to develop and maintain good relationships. The third part of
the book provides evidence-based approaches to overcoming specific
emotional difficulties, such as worry, panic, low mood, anger,
addictions, and coping with trauma, loss and chronic ill health.
With well over 200,000 copies sold, Manage Your Mind remains the
definitive self-help guide for anyone seeking to lead a more
fulfilling and productive life.
Psychology is part of everyone's experience: it influences the way
we think about everything from education and intelligence, to
relationships and emotions, advertising and criminality. People
readily behave as amateur psychologists, offering explanations for
what people think, feel, and do. But what exactly are psychologists
trying to do? What scientific grounding do they have for their
approach? This Very Short Introduction explores some of
psychology's leading ideas and their practical relevance. In this
new edition, Gillian Butler and Freda McManus explore a variety of
new topics and ways of studying the brain. Until recently it was
not possible to study the living human brain directly, so
psychologists studied our behaviour, and used their observations to
derive hypotheses about what was going on inside. Now - through
neuroscience - our knowledge of the workings of the brain has
increased and improved technology provides us with a scientific
basis on which to understand the structure and workings of the
brain, and allows brain activity to be observed and measured.
Exploring some of the most important advances and developments in
psychology - from evolutionary psychology and issues surrounding
adolescence and aggression to cognitive psychology - this is a
stimulating introduction for anyone interested in understanding the
human mind. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series
from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost
every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to
get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine
facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make
interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Managing Your Mind is a book for building resilience, overcoming
emotional difficulties and enabling self-development. It is for any
of us who wish to understand ourselves better, to be more effective
in day-to-day life, to overcome current problems; or who want to
support others in these tasks. The authors have between them almost
100 years of experience helping people respond skillfully to life's
challenges. Drawing on this experience as well as on cutting-edge
scientific research, Managing Your Mind distills effective
techniques and ideas, enabling readers to select those that suit
their preferences and needs. Part One of the book helps us gain a
better understanding of ourselves and provides tools for clarifying
what we value most in life. It highlights the benefits of the
practice of acceptance and kindness, and shows how to build
self-esteem and self-confidence. Part Two presents practical tools
and methods, relevant to everyone, for making our way in the world.
This includes the importance of perspective and how we can best use
our thinking skills. It also covers everyday topics such as the
value of useful habits, time management, looking after our physical
health, increasing happiness, well-being and creativity, and
developing and maintaining good relationships. The third part of
the book provides scientifically-tested approaches to overcoming
specific emotional difficulties, such as worry, panic, low mood,
anger, addictions, and coping with trauma, loss and chronic ill
health. With well over 150,000 copies in print, Managing Your Mind
remains the definitive self-help guide for anyone seeking to lead a
more fulfilling and productive life.
Everyone feels foolish, embarrassed, judged or criticised at times,
but this becomes a problem when it undermines your confidence and
prevents you from doing what you want to do. Extreme social anxiety
and shyness can be crippling but they are readily treated using
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). In this fully revised and
updated edition, Dr Gillian Butler provides a practical,
easy-to-use self-help course which will be invaluable for those
suffering from all degrees of social anxiety. Overcoming self-help
guides use effective therapeutic techniques to treat long-standing
and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical. Many
guides in the Overcoming series are recommended under the Reading
Well Books on Prescription scheme.
Helping therapists bring about enduring change when treating
clients with any anxiety disorder, this invaluable book combines
expert guidance, in-depth exploration, and innovative clinical
strategies. The authors draw on extensive experience and research
to provide a framework for constructing lucid formulations of
complex cases. They identify obstacles that frequently arise during
the early, middle, and later stages of treatment and present a wide
range of practical solutions. The volume demonstrates clear-cut yet
flexible ways to enhance client engagement, foster metacognitive
awareness, facilitate emotional processing, address low self-esteem
and fear of uncertainty, and much more. Reproducible handouts and
forms are included.
Behavioural experiments are one of the central and most powerful
methods of intervention in cognitive therapy. Yet until now, there
has been no volume specifically dedicated to guiding physicians who
wish to design and implement behavioural experiments across a wide
range of clinical problems. The Oxford Guide to Behavioural
Experiments in Cognitive Therapy fills this gap. It is written by
clinicians for clinicians. It is a practical, easy to read
handbook, which is relevant for practising clinicians at every
level, from trainees to cognitive therapy supervisors. Following a
foreword by David Clark, the first two chapters provide a
theoretical and practical background for the understanding and
development of behavioural experiments. Thereafter, the remaining
chapters of the book focus on particular problem areas. These
include problems which have been the traditional focus of cognitive
therapy (e.g. depression, anxiety disorders), as well as those
which have only more recently become a subject of study (bipolar
disorder, psychotic symptoms), and some which are still in their
relative infancy (physical health problems, brain injury). The book
also includes several chapters on transdiagnostic problems, such as
avoidance of affect, low self-esteem, interpersonal issues, and
self-injurious behaviour. A final chapter by Christine Padesky
provides some signposts for future development. Containing examples
of over 200 behavioural experiments, this book will be of enormous
practical value for all those involved in cognitive behavioural
therapy, as well as stimulating exploration and creativity in both
its readers and their patients.
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