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Brilliant Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Brilliant Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

How to use CBT to improve your mind and your life
2nd Edition

Stephen Briers

Oct 2012, Paperback, 296 pages
ISBN13: 9780273777731
ISBN10: 0273777734
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) delivers powerful tools that can help you dramatically improve your life.

This is the most useful and practical guide to CBT available. Written by highly regarded Clinical Psychologist Dr Stephen Briers, it clearly explains how CBT works, giving you plenty of exercises to help put the theory into practice and illustrate the effectiveness through stories from people who have used CBT to turn their lives around.

Clear, concise and highly readable.

Brilliant Outcomes:

- Understand what CBT is, its methods and models

- Put CBT to work to improve your mind and your life

- Build practical, step-by-step strategies for tackling any problem

About the author

Author’s acknowledgements

Publisher’s acknowledgements

1 So what’s so brilliant about CBT?

2 First principles

3 Common thinking traps – and how to avoid them

4 Grappling with negative thinking

5 Using behaviour to change your mind

6 Mapping out your problems

7 Beating the blues

8 Conquering anxiety

9 Taming anger

10 Boosting self-esteem

11 Breaking the cycle: using CBT to overcome addictions and destructive habits

Afterword: over to you now

References and further reading

Useful websites

Appendix 1 Brilliant directory of online CBT courses, computer-based tools and smartphone applications

Appendix 2 Example of a thought record

Appendix 3 Blank forms and thought record templates

Appendix 4 What to do if it's not working

Index

Stephen Brierstrained as a clinical psychologist and studied at Cambridge University, where he was later employed in child development research at the Winnicott Unit. Today Stephen works clinically with both children and adults. His various television appearances include four series of the popular BBC parenting programmes Little Angels and Teen Angels and Make Me A Grown-Up for Channel 4. He has also been a regular contributor to the Brain and Behaviour column in The Times Educational Supplement.

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