In the second edition of 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD, Stephanie Sarkis offers the latest research and information on effective new attention deficit disorder medications and treatments. This new edition also expands on the original ten simple solutions to include more information that can help adults with ADD get organized and manage their symptoms.
Anxiety experts Martin M. Antony, Ph.D. and Randi E. McCabe, Ph.D., provide readers who have at one time or another experienced seemingly unexplainable, intense mental and physical attacks of overwhelming fear with 10 simple and proven strategies for combatting panic attacks.
These ten simple techniques—drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, mind-body medicine, and positive psychology—can help anyone avoid anxiety-related problems and feel more vibrant and healthy by managing stress.
Two anxiety experts team up to provide readers with these ten simple, engaging, proven-effective cognitive behavioral strategies to combat excessive worry, an energy-sapping condition that often leads to more serious anxiety-related problems.
In this book, psychologist Janetti Marotta offers mindfulness exercises for readers struggling with a lack of self-acceptance and self-compassion. Based on the idea that true self-esteem is based on internal, rather than external factors, the 50 easy-to-use practices outlined in this book aim to promote inner awareness and help readers live a more fulfilled life.
People turn to food to cope with stress and sadness, enhance joy, and bring a sense of comfort. But over time, this kind of emotional overeating can cause weight gain, heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other health problems. In this much-anticipated follow up to 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, renowned psychologist, eating expert, and best-selling author Susan Albers presents fifty more mindful and healthy activities that really work to help readers replace their need to overeat.
In 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food, Susan Albers, eating disorder specialist and best-selling author of Eating Mindfully, presents fifty exercises readers can do to soothe themselves, calm stress, and end emotional eating.
Marriage can be difficult, and talking about relationship problems is often a challenge, especially when one partner is too angry, hurt, or defensive to really listen. That’s why clinical psychologist Samantha Rodman recommends a new way for couples to communicate: e-mail! With 52 E-mails to Transform Your Marriage, couples who feel stuck or disconnected will find a year’s worth of suggested weekly e-mails to help them reconnect and keep their love alive.
Women are faced with an intense pressure to have the perfect body. But the truth is women are their own worst critics when they look in the mirror. Isn't it time to put away the scale, toss perfectionism out the window, and start feeling fantastic? In this powerfully inspirational book, Kimber Simpkins, yoga instructor and author of Full, gives women 52 undeniable reasons to love their bodies and discover their own unique beauty!
If recent professional publications and conferences are any indication, acceptance- and mindfulness-based therapies are the future of clinical psychology. A CBT-Practitioner's Guide to ACT helps professionals whose clinical educations focused on traditional, change-based cognitive behavior therapies navigate the practical and theoretical challenges that come with the switch to the more promising, acceptance-based strategies.
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TNGC) clients have complex mental health concerns, and are more likely than ever to seek out treatment. Written by a team of psychologists and TNGC specialists, this comprehensive resource outlines the latest research and recommendations to provide clinicians with the requisite knowledge, skills, and awareness to treat these clients with competent and affirming care.
Mindfulness-based interventions have exploded in popularity. What was once an ancient practice honed in Buddhist monasteries is now a mainstream, evidence-based, secular intervention employed by trained health and mental health professionals. A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness provides professionals with a comprehensive, session-by-session guide, complete with the scripts and training materials needed to teach introductory mindfulness in a wide variety of settings, despite theoretical background.
Written by a psychologist and expert in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), this manual brings together five powerful, evidence-based therapies to help clinicians create a concise and customizable treatment plan. The methods—including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)—are presented in an easy-to-follow format, incorporate the newest research, and give clinicians a wide range of skills for addressing the mechanisms underlying OCD.
The self plays an integral role in human motivation, cognition, and social identity. That’s why observing the self is such an important element of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). However, for many ACT clinicians, it can be difficult to apply this complex theory in everyday practice. A must-have addition to any ACT practitioner’s library, A Contextual Behavioral Guide to the Self translates the ACT model’s most difficult—yet essential—process into easy-to-apply steps and user-friendly language. With this unique road map, clinicians will help clients develop empathy, compassion, and flexible perspective taking—leading to better treatment outcomes and better lives for clients.
A unique resource for students, professionals, and fellow travelers interested in the phenomenon of behavioral therapy, this book presents the history of the behavioral therapies in the words of the individuals who made it happen.
The ultimate practical guide to mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)—with more than 115,000 copies sold—is now available in a fully revised and updated second edition. In A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, two MBSR experts present a step-by-step, eleven-week program for effective stress reduction based on the concepts in Jon Kabat-Zinn's groundbreaking book, Full Catastrophe Living.
The ultimate practical guide to mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)—with more than 115,000 copies sold—is now available in a fully revised and updated second edition. In A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, two MBSR experts present a step-by-step, eleven-week program for effective stress reduction based on the concepts in Jon Kabat-Zinn's groundbreaking book, Full Catastrophe Living.
Anxiety is one of the most prevalent mental health issues faced by society today. In The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety, three MBSR experts provide powerful mindfulness meditations and exercises to help sooth anxiety, understand common triggers, and live more fully in the moment.
Many parents have a difficult time getting their children out of the family bed. This workbook presents a 21 day program for parents to move their children back into their own bedrooms and to end the wanderings of ambulatory sleepers. The workbook has separate sections for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, and older children who are sleeping in their parents bed due to special circumstances (e.g. divorce, fears, death in the family, etc.). No More Tears; No More Arguments; Just a Good Night's Sleep for You and Your Family.
Women with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often feel misunderstood and experience a sense of alienation because of their differences. This radical guide empowers readers to challenge the cultural stigma and deeply internalized shame of being a woman living with an invisible disorder. With this groundbreaking book, readers will discover their individual strengths as they build self-esteem, celebrate their neurodiversity, learn to communicate with boldness and clarity, form sustainable relationships, identify their core values, and move toward a more meaningful life.
Can a woman’s relationships make her depressed? Past and current patterns, expectations, and assumptions about roles in relationships can often cause or worsen depression; A Secret Sadness offers a groundbreaking new perspective on this phenomenon, as well as powerful tools readers can use to explore the issue.
Can a woman’s relationships make her depressed? Past and current patterns, expectations, and assumptions about roles in relationships can often cause or worsen depression; A Secret Sadness offers a groundbreaking new perspective on this phenomenon, as well as powerful tools readers can use to explore the issue.
Today’s children and adolescents face intense pressures—both in the classroom and at home. A Still Quiet Place presents an eight-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program that therapists, teachers, and other professionals can use to help children and adolescents manage stress and anxiety in their lives. The easy-to-implement practices in this guide are designed to help increase attention, learning, resiliency, and compassion by showing children how to experience the natural quietness that can be found within. The book also includes links to helpful audio downloads.
Based on her groundbreaking Still Quiet Place mindfulness program, holistic physician, mindfulness coach, and long-time athlete Amy Saltzman provides practical, step-by-step exercises and skills to help both sports enthusiasts and professional athletes cultivate present-moment awareness, find flow, and reach peak performance in sports and life. Readers will also find tools for dealing with sports-related issues such as injury, being cut from the team, and conflict with teammates and coaches.
Being a teen in today’s fast-paced, media-saturated world is difficult, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed or stressed out. To help, Amy Saltzman—author of A Still Quiet Place—offers a comprehensive workbook to help teens manage daily stressors and challenges in their lives, whether at home, school, or with friends. Using proven-effective mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) techniques, teens will learn to balance emotions, stay focused, and experience the natural quietness that lives within.
A clinical psychologist who treats patients with life-threatening illnesses graphically recounts her own battle with breast cancer and offers readers a step-by-step guide to help them explore options, make informed choices, and advocate for the best possible treatment.
What’s your procrastination type? That’s the question author Jennifer Shannon asks teens in this fun and illustrated book. Blending acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral strategies, A Teen’s Guide to Getting Things Done helps teens recognize and understand their procrastination habits, discover the strengths of their unique procrastination type—warrior, pleaser, perfectionist, or rebel—and find the motivation they need to meet important deadlines and reach their highest goals.
An addiction expert presents a breakthrough step-by-step program to help women overcomes substance abuse. Exercises help women break the cycle of 'using to forget,' build new strengths, and find greater self-respect. Includes a directory of recovery options, advice on getting outside help, and 18 worksheets.
Acceptance-based techniques are changing our practical and theoretical understanding of psychology. This book contains essays on a range of topics that explore the use of these techniques in modern clinical practice.
This is the first step-by-step professional book that teaches therapists how to apply and integrate acceptance and mindfulness-based treatment for anxiety disorders in their practice by presenting acceptance and commitment therapy concepts, principles, and techniques.
ACT for Body Image Dissatisfaction is an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) manual practitioners can use to help clients overcome body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors such as food restriction and binge eating.
A clinical practice guide to helping chronic pain sufferers live richer, more fulfilling lives with pain using acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Couples, best-selling author Matthew McKay and psychologist Avigail Lev present the ten most common relationship schemas, and provide an evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) treatment protocol for professionals. With these powerful tools, therapists will be better able to help couples overcome the unhealthy coping behaviors and barriers that hold them back so they can move forward to create happier, healthier relationships.
Coauthored by Kelly Wilson, cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Eating Disorders is a complete guide to treating eating disorders that targets the underlying factors that fuel most eating disorders.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Interpersonal Problems offers a complete professional protocol for treating clients who suffer from a variety of interpersonal issues, including tendencies toward blame, withdrawal, anger, contempt, defensiveness, and distrust. Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and schema therapy, this approach helps clients understand and move past their interpersonal disruptions and difficulties.
An indispensable resource for mental health professionals, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Related Problems offers a practical and accessible yet theoretically complete approach to using the principles of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and acute trauma-related symptoms.
The essays in Acceptance and Mindfulness Treatments for Children and Adolescents—which are edited by two luminaries in the field of third-wave behavior therapy—offer a much-needed adaptation of these revolutionary techniques for young people and their families, providing a wealth of new approaches to therapists, counselors, and other helping professionals.
Combining elements of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and relational frame theory (RFT), ACT and RFT for Relationships presents a unique approach for therapists to help clients develop and experience deeper, more loving relationships. By exploring personal values and expectations, and by addressing central patterns of behaviors, therapists can help their clients establish and maintain intimacy with their partner and gain a greater understanding of their relationship as a whole.
Written by a clinical psychologist and social worker, ACT for Adolescents presents the first flexible, ten-week protocol based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help adolescents overcome mental health hurdles and thrive. The powerful and effective step-by-step exercises in this book are tailored toward working with adolescents in individual settings, but also include modifications for group settings.
People struggling with mental health problems frequently turn to their clergy or spiritual teachers for guidance. However, clergy often receive little seminary training on how to deal with the challenges of counseling someone with a mental health issue. For the first time ever, three pioneers in the field of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) present an edited volume that outlines how the core ACT processes can be applied to religious and spiritual care approaches.
ACT for Depression adapts the research-proven techniques of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) into a powerful set of conceptualization, assessment, and treatment techniques clinicians can use to help clients with depression, the second-most common mental health condition.
True recovery from psychosis means empowering patients to take charge of their lives. As interest in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) gains momentum, ACT for Psychosis Recovery is the first book to provide an evidence-based, step-by-step approach for group work with clients suffering from psychosis. With this comprehensive guide, clinicians will learn how positive recovery outcomes can be both supported and sustained by promoting acceptance, mindfulness, and values-driven action in clients.
Every psychotherapeutic model needs literature that shows therapists how to conceive of real-life cases in terms of the particular treatment protocols of that model; ACT in Practice will be the first such case conceptualization guide for acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), one of the most exciting new psychotherapeutic models.
A practical and easy-to-use primer, ideal for newcomers and experienced professionals alike, ACT Made Simple offers clear explanations of the six core processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and a set of real-world tips and solutions for rapidly and effectively implementing this powerful therapy into practice. This fully revised and updated second edition includes new information and chapters on self-compassion, flexible perspective taking, working with trauma, and more.
Internationally-known acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer Russ Harris presents ACT Made Simple, a complete, accessible guide for therapists interested in understanding the ACT model and teaching core ACT principles to their clients.
From the bestselling author of When Anger Hurts, Matthew McKay, Ph.D., and ACT experts Georg Eifert, Ph.D. and John P. Forsyth, Ph.D., comes the first bookto provide ACT principles and techniques for dealing with anger, and to teach readers how to change their relationship with, and response to, anger by developing compassion for themselves and others.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a highly effective, evidence-based treatment for a number of mental health issues—from depression to addiction. However, there are several challenges and frustrations that can arise when delivering ACT. Written by internationally acclaimed ACT expert Russ Harris, this book offers easy-to-read Q&A sessions to cover the most common ways clients and practitioners get stuck when using ACT, how to get unstuck, and how to transform that “stuckness” into powerful personal growth.
An invaluable aid for clinicians using the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) model, ACT Verbatim offers transcripts of actual therapy sessions annotated by ACT cofounder Steven Hayes. The annotations coach therapists on how to work through the ACT core processes and how to deal with common situations encountered in therapy sessions
In ACT with Love, therapist and medical doctor Russ Harris shows couples how developing psychological flexibility-the ability to be in the present moment with openness, awareness, and focus, and to take effective action in line with one's values-can help them build more compassionate, accepting, loving relationships.
It’s not just the big choices we make that can radically change our lives—sometimes it’s the small ones. Offering a powerful blend of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and behavioral activation strategies, Activating Happiness teaches readers how to conquer depression and low mood by actively making positive choices in small, everyday moments. These small changes will help reignite motivation, improve mood, and help readers get unstuck so they can connect with what they value most.
Everyone suffers when there’s an addict in the family. Written by an expert in alcohol and drug addiction and recovery—and drawing on her own personal experience with her brother’s addiction—this no-nonsense guide will help readers understand the causes of addiction, end their enabling behaviors, support their loved one’s recovery, and learn how to cope with relapses.
In this unique and engaging memoir, journalist and popular blogger Zoë Kessler shares her own story of being diagnosed with ADHD in her late 40s. Throughout the book she offers readers key coping skills based on her experience; skills that can help readers focus their energy, become more organized, and boost their self-esteem while tapping into creativity and humor.
From an attempt to hurl his infant sister off the edge of a table to being lashed down to a dining room chair by an irate babysitter, the stories from Blake Taylor's life with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at times hilarious, tragic, and instructive. This eminently readable memoir sheds light on what it's like for a young person to grow up with, suffer from, and ultimately learn to live with this common condition.
What happens when children are more mature than their parents? Growing up with an emotionally unavailable, immature, or selfish parent is painful, but rarely discussed. In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay C. Gibson exposes an often overlooked, yet extremely common syndrome that shapes the lives of so many people. Gibson also provides powerful skills to help the adult children of self-centered parents gain the insight they need to move on from feelings of loneliness and abandonment, and find healthy ways to meet their own emotional needs.
In Advanced Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a licensed clinical psychologist and renowned ACT expert presents the first advanced ACT book for use in client sessions. Inside, readers will hone their understanding of the core processes behind ACT and learn practical strategies for moving past common barriers that can present during therapy, such as over-identifying with clients or difficulty putting theory into practice.
Written by psychologist and bestselling author Matthew McKay, the Advanced Training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy DVD offers clinicians an advanced set of training skills for using acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to treat depression, anxiety, trauma, anger, chronic pain, and interpersonal problems.
Edited by leading relational frame theory (RFT) scholars, Simon Dymond, PhD, and Bryan Roche, PhD, Advances in Relational Frame Theorypresents advances in all aspects of RFT research over the last decade, and provides mental health professionals a greater understanding of the core principals of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). A must-read for anyone interested in ACT, the book contains chapters written by Steven C. Hayes and Kelly Wilson, both research-active experts from the RFT community around the world.
Written by leading non-duality author Greg Goode, After Awareness offers a course in non-dual philosophy, allowing readers to explore the inner workings of the Direct Path approach to self-inquiry—a set of teachings attributed to Shri Atmananda (Krishna Menon) that investigate the nature of the mind experientially and can bring about a lasting sense of joy and freedom. With this open, pragmatic, and deconstructive presentation, readers will see the Direct Path from all angles, find ways to talk about non-duality, and draw their own conclusions about the nature of being and the “I.”
Use this supportive guide to conquer panic and anxiety. Master the skill of breathing retraining. Take charge of fear-fueling thoughts. Overcome the fear of physical symptoms. Cope with phobic situations, avoid relapse, and learn to live in the here and now.
Author and spiritual teacher Jeff Foster invites readers to forget everything they “know” about existence and spirituality, and to consider the possibility of absolute freedom—right now, right here, in the midst of this ordinary life. Using everyday language and drawing on both personal experience and age-old wisdom, Foster shares the possibility that all the seeking and longing of the mind can come to an absolute end when we let the sense of being a separate individual fall away—a plunge into unconditional love.
Written by the highly celebrated spiritual teacher and world-renowned Advaita master Mooji, this book presents ancient wisdom in a beautiful, easy-to-understand, accessible gift package. With simple reflections, questions, meditations, and Mooji’s own art sprinkled throughout, this gem of a book will gently guide readers from all walks of life toward an authentic awakening—the truth that we are all one, and that what we’re searching for, we already are.
Written by the highly celebrated spiritual teacher and world-renowned Advaita master Mooji, this audiobook, read by the author, presents ancient wisdom, simple reflections, questions, and meditations to lead you toward true self-discovery. This gem of a book will gently guide readers from all walks of life toward an authentic awakening—the truth that we are all one, and that what we’re searching for, we already are.
Presenting a new edition of a self-help classic. Written by two clinical psychologists with decades of experience in treating anger, this long-awaited, fully revised and updated second edition of Anger Management for Everyone offers brand new skills to help readers stay calm in the midst of triggering situations, manage their anger, and experience more happiness.
Presenting a new edition of a self-help classic. Written by two clinical psychologists with decades of experience in treating anger, this long-awaited, fully revised and updated second edition of Anger Management for Everyone offers brand new skills to help readers stay calm in the midst of triggering situations, manage their anger, and experience more happiness.
This is the second edition of Angry all the Time -- an emergency guide for people who have anger control problems. This book helps readers make immediate changes by learning to stop making excuses and stop blaming, follow the 8 steps of anger management, change anger-provoking thoughts, deal with old resentments, ask for what they want without anger, avoid violence and threats, and stay calm. Potter-Efron is also author of: Working Anger, Letting Go of Anger, and Stop the Anger Now.
In Anxiety and Avoidance, psychologist and anxiety disorder expert Michael A. Tompkins presents a universal, transdianostic approach for helping readers cope with anxiety, panic, and fear using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness treatments. This book includes mindfulness strategies, motivational tips, and cognitive tools for reframing anxiety and fear so readers can get back to living their lives.
From the authors of the groundbreaking and best-selling The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, this essential guide offers fifty-two quick and powerful mindfulness-based strategies to help readers break free from fear, worry, and panic, and cultivate genuine, lasting happiness.
Parents of children with anxiety need quick, in-the-moment solutions they can easily use every day to help their child. AnxietyRelief for Kids is the first and only easy-to-use guide for parents that utilizes proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and exposure therapy, allowing parents to plan effective, short-term interventions with their kids at home, in social settings, or anywhere that anxiety and avoidance occur.
A psychologist specializing in anxiety and stress in the workplace offers this collection of self-help solutions to perfectionism, fear of failure, and procrastination—techniques that can transform on-the-job anxiety into enjoyment and success in the workplace.
In Anxious in Love, an Imago therapist and a couples therapist present practical relationship tools for people struggling with any anxiety disorder that leaves them feeling disconnected and misunderstood by their partners. These strategies will help readers apply practical tools for healing their anxiety, communicating their needs, and improving their relationships.
Applied behavior analysis is an evidence-based mental health approach that focuses on the principles of learning and applying what is learned to change client behavior. Written by leading experts in language and cognition, this is the first applied behavior analysis textbook to bring the study of language and verbal behavior into the 21st century with the latest research. Students and clinicians in the burgeoning field of applied behavior analysis will find the theoretical foundation they need to effectively serve the increasingly diverse clients seeking their services.
Based on the best-selling The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook the Applied Relaxation Training CD teaches listeners to relax deeply and quickly and learn to develop a conditioned relaxation response when confronted with anxiety and stress triggers. This CD is part of the Relaxation and Stress Reduction Audio Series.
In Assessing Mindfulness and Acceptance Processes in Clients, well-known psychology researcher Ruth Baer and eleven other contributors including Kelly Wilson, Lizabeth Roemer, and Jean Kristeller examine how mindfulness works, explain how to measure mindfulness in clients, and explore how mindfulness can account for improvements in psychological functioning.
A convenient reader covering a range of topics in the area of behavior analysis of autism, an essential text for behavior analysts in both clinical and academic settings.
Awake in the Heartland shows how spiritual practice and the pursuit of “enlightenment” can become an addiction, or yet another goal that can impede us from waking up in the present moment. In her poignant autobiography, author Joan Tollifson encourages readers to look for themselves without clinging to old opinions or relying on outside authorities. Honest, funny, and profound, this is a book that invites readers to discover who or what they really are.
Many people struggle in relationship, and those on a spiritual path are no exception. Even for the most spiritually enlightened, relationships can be fraught with frustration, pain, disappointment, and conflict. Written by a clinical psychotherapist and pioneer in bringing spiritual wisdom to the practice of psychotherapy, Awakened Relating will help readers awaken to the deepest truth and learn to apply the most direct teachings of non-duality to “awakened relating” in order to experience the deep and ever-present love within themselves and their intimate relationships.
For centuries, philosophers and theologians have pondered questions such as Who are we? and What is the self?Awakening to the Dream is a book about you and your true identity. Inside, author Leo Hartong offers a clear, approachable overview of the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta—also known as non-duality—to help readers awaken to their true selves.
In Back from the Brink, author Graeme Cowan—who has suffered from severe depression himself—presents candid and poignant interviews with people from all walks of life who have struggled with serious depression and bipolar disorder; such as Bob Boorstin, the director of public policy at Google, former tennis star Cliff Ritchey, and talk-show host Trisha Goddard. As these interviewees detail their treatment, their successes, and their setbacks, readers are offered real hope and real advice, as well as practical tools for recovering from their own depression. The book also explores various treatment options that readers can take away to begin healing.
Today’s kids have adopted sedentary lifestyles filled with television, video games, and computer screens. But more and more, studies show that children need “rough and tumble” outdoor play in order to develop their sensory, motor, and executive functions. In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist explains why unrestrained movement and outdoor play are vital for children’s cognitive development, and offers fun, engaging activities to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced, and resilient adults.
Anxiety is rampant in our fast-paced, high-tech, overwhelming society—and women are twice as likely as men to suffer from anxiety-related issues. In this empowering guide, women will find practical tools and experiential exercises based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help them mindfully conquer anxieties, worries, and fears—and live mightily.
This unique guide for artists and writers offers a guided journey into contemplative art for healing, relaxation, deeper connection, and increased well-being. With this beautiful guide—full of inspiring and introspective prompts—readers will broaden their perspective to see beyond habitual patterns, discover the richness of their interior world, and recognize the ordinary magic of their own creativity with greater freshness of expression and spontaneity.
More than just fixing what ails them, many therapists today seek to help clients achieve personal and professional goals and navigate life changes successfully-a variety of practice called life coaching. Becoming a Life Coach offers a complete strategy professionals can use to incorporate life coaching into their practices.
Befriending Your Ex After Divorce presents communication strategies, anger management tips, and other advice for building and maintaining friendship and a positive coparenting relationship with an ex after divorce.
Behavior Analysis, Education, and Effective Schooling explores topics in contemporary education and pedagogical practice through the lens of behavior analysis. More than just thoughts on applying BA to education, the book critiques current educational models and proposes ways our educational system could accomplish greater, further-reaching goals.
Research suggests that many patients receiving primary medical care also need behavior-related health services. Behavioral Health as Primary Care presents a range of ideas on how best to integrate behavior healthcare with traditional medical services.
The overlooking of our own being is the root cause of all unhappiness and, therefore, the root cause of our search for happiness. This collection of contemplations, the first volume in the Essence of Meditation series, will lead readers toward their own experiential understanding of that which we all call “I,” inviting them to relax into awareness and explore their true nature.
If you feel like you have trouble saying no to others, at work or at home, this book can help you establish more effective boundaries. The authors explore a variety of boundary problems and help you make necessary adjustment.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex illness that significantly impacts the lives of those who have it, as well as those close to them. In Beyond Borderline, two internationally acclaimed experts on BPD team up to present a rare glimpse into the personal lives and recovery of people with BPD. This provocative book uncovers the truth about this most misunderstood and stigmatized disorder, and offers an opportunity for a reexamination of BPD from the real experts—individuals suffering with it.
Written by best-selling author, meditation expert, psychotherapist, and spiritual teacher Stephan Bodian, this book transforms familiar mindfulness practices into the vehicle for our greatest spiritual awakening, allowing readers to realize that the love, compassion, wholeness, health, and happiness they’ve been seeking were there all along.
Beyond the Blues is an invaluable tool in providing a comprehensive approach to treating depressed teens. The 40 illustrated activities include helping teens be more assertive, finding ways to make friends, handling conflicts, and of course, dealing with sad and difficult feelings. Recent studies tell us that only half of depressed teens get the help they need; this book can make the difference. Simple, effective solutions to: Help Teens Deal with Sad and Difficult Feelings; Be More Assertive; Find New Ways to Make Friends.
Beyond the Blues is an invaluable tool in providing a comprehensive approach to treating depressed teens. The 40 illustrated activities include helping teens be more assertive, finding ways to make friends, handling conflicts, and of course, dealing with sad and difficult feelings. Recent studies tell us that only half of depressed teens get the help they need; this book can make the difference. Simple, effective solutions to: Help Teens Deal with Sad and Difficult Feelings; Be More Assertive; Find New Ways to Make Friends.
This practical handbook explores binge eating, the kinds of damage it can cause, and its biological and societal causes; how to assess and change binge patterns; the role of medication; and advice on when to consider therapy.
In Bipolar 101, a mental health advocate who has personal experience with bipolar disorder offers this guide to the ten simple-yet not always easy-essential steps readers need to take to control this serious and challenging condition.
Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed is a pocket guide to symptom management, treatments, medications, and more for people who have been recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Includes guidance for processing the diagnosis, sharing it with family and friends, and finding experts who can help get symptoms under control.
In this searingly honest memoir, Biting Anorexia, law student and recovered anorexic Lucy Howard-Taylor tells the story of her descent into anorexia and major depression and her remarkable recovery.
Bloodletting is a frank, compelling, and at times darkly humorous memoir of one woman's struggle with cutting. This book challenges the silence surrounding self-injury, one of mental health's last taboos
The Body Awareness and Imagination audio CD, based on the best-selling The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, teaches listeners to become aware of their bodies' reactions to stress and master in-the-moment relaxation techniques. This CD is part of the Relaxation and Stress Reduction Audio Series.
Two experts on borderline personality disorder (BPD) present the fifth book in the New Harbinger Guides for the Newly Diagnosed Series. This easy-to-read book offers an introduction to BPD for those who have recently been diagnosed, outlines the most common complications of the illness and the most effective treatments available, and provides readers with practical strategies for staying on the path to recovery.
Written in clear, accessible language, this book seeks to free readers from their suffering by drawing attention to the direct experience of self as abiding, loving, boundless awareness. Using practical exercises and meditations, the author guides readers through a process of spiritual awakening, deconstructing self-delusions and integrating a new concept of existence that is free from the suffering of individual selfhood, but which acknowledges the attachments, traumatic experiences, and emotional pain of being human.
A noted psychologist draws on the latest research to help parents understand why so many open and expressive boys turn into uncommunicative adolescents. Building on interventions developed in her clinical practice, Polce-Lynch provides parents with practical everyday strategies to help their sons develop a full range of emotional awareness and expression.
In this revelatory memoir, doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth other doctors don’t always understand and often won’t share if they do—that chronic illness is complicated, and that treatment is not just a matter of test results and prescriptions but requires a more comprehensive approach. By sharing her own struggle with a disabling autoimmune crisis, which forced her to question her own conventional medical training and embrace the integrative principles of functional medicine, Li reveals the insider knowledge sufferers need to truly begin healing—mind, body, and spirit.
In Breaking the Cycle, sex addiction specialist George Collins offers a powerful, no-nonsense program for helping readers identify their unhealthy sexual patterns, overcome sex addiction, and start living more productive lives.
In this second edition of Breastfeeding Made Simple, two breastfeeding specialists explain the seven natural laws of breastfeeding that can help new mothers breastfeed successfully and easily.
Numerous studies show that breast milk plays an important role in a baby's development and overall health, but for many women, breastfeeding can be difficult. In Breastfeeding Solutions, breastfeeding expert and bestselling coauthor of Breastfeeding Made Simple, Nancy Mohrbacher, provides mothers with the latest solutions to common breastfeeding challenges—including pain, pumping, and weaning—in a quick, easy-to-use format.
From the creators of the hugely successful Master of Mindfulness, this charming children’s book tells the story of Nessa and Leo’s friendship, and how mindfulness helps them deal with strong emotions like fear, shyness, and anger. Written and illustrated by a group of kindergarten with the help of fourth graders from Reach Academy in Oakland, California, this book will help kids ages 4 to 7 learn to be present in the moment, cope with big feelings, and manage stress in their daily lives.
Brief Interventions for Radical Change is a valuable resource for clinicians—a collection of fifteen to thirty-minute therapeutic interventions based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) that can be used to help clients overcome any psychological difficulty, including anxiety, depression, and substance abuse.
In this playful and sexually savvy guide, “Dr. Cheryl” Fraser presents enlivening mindfulness practices, techniques from couples and sex therapy, and the wisdom of Buddhist teachings to help couples spark the passion and thrill they’ve been seeking. With this spiritually scintillating book, couples can break the monotony of familiar routines and bring a little nirvana back to the bedroom for a more exciting, loving, and fulfilling and relationship.
In Buddha's Brain, a clinical psychologist and a senior neurologist explain how the brain benefits from contemplative practice and show readers how to develop greater happiness, love, and wisdom by drawing from breakthroughs in modern neuroscience.
Bestselling author and mindful eating expert Susan Albers presents But I Deserve This Chocolate!, a pocket guide to outsmarting the fifty most common diet-derailing excuses that sabotage weight loss and encourage mindless eating.
Sheri Van Dijk presents Calming the Emotional Storm, an easy-to-read introduction to the dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills that can help readers keep calm in the face of distressing emotions and regain emotional balance in their lives.
Written by Bob Stahl, coauthor of the bestselling book, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Calming the Rush of Panic offers readers powerful mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) practices in a quick, accessable format to help them cope with panic disorder. The book contains guided mindfulness meditations and exercises to help reduce fears, restore feelings of security and safety, stay calm, and get back to living life.
From Jeff Brantley, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Integrative Medicine and author of Calming Your Anxious Mind comes Calming Your Angry Mind. Inside, readers with anger management issues can find step-by-step mindfulness and compassion practices to help soothe anger, fear, and hostile emotions that can wreak havoc at home, work, and in relationships. Using mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) techniques, reader will also learn important awareness skills so that they can stop overreacting, improve communication with others, and live a more fulfilling life.
This is a major revision of the classic book using mindfulness to overcome anxiety. It includes information on the latest research into mindfulness, new step-by-step exercises, and new thoughts on taking daily mindfulness to deeper and more rewarding levels.
Caring for a Loved One with Dementia is a unique and compassionate guide that offers an effective mindfulness-based dementia care (MBDC) program to help caregivers meet their own needs and lower stress levels while caring for their loved one. Dementia is a cruel disease that can leave both the sufferer—and those who care about them—reeling. But in the midst of the pain, the mindfulness practices in this book will help readers find strength and meaning in each moment they spend with their loved one.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a powerful and evidence-based treatment for several mental health disorders. However, there are no simple learning guides covering CBT: what it is, how it works, and how to implement it in session. In CBT Made Simple, two psychologists and experts in CBT offer mental health professionals the ultimate “how-to” guide. This fully revised and updated second edition includes the core components of CBT—core beliefs, intermediate beliefs, and behavioral experiments—to make this the most comprehensive and practical CBT manual available.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a powerful and evidence-based treatment for several mental health disorders. However, there are no simple learning guides covering CBT: what it is, how it works, and how to implement it in session. In CBT Made Simple, two psychologists and experts in CBT offer mental health professionals the ultimate “how-to” guide. This fully revised and updated second edition includes the core components of CBT—core beliefs, intermediate beliefs, and behavioral experiments—to make this the most comprehensive and practical CBT manual available.
Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) is extremely effective in helping clients work through painful feelings of shame and self-criticism. However, the theoretical aspects of this therapy—such as evolutionary psychology, attachment theory, and affective neuroscience—can make CFT difficult to grasp. Using the easy-to-apply tools outlined in this comprehensive guide to CFT, professionals can help clients develop self-compassion and, learn mindfulness skills, and balance difficult emotions for greater treatment outcomes.
This third edition of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple provides parents, patients, therapists, and health care professionals all they need to know about the use of psychoactive medications in the treatment of childhood and adolescent psychological disorders in easy-to-understand language. Readers will find updated DSM-V definitions; new information regarding teen use of antidepressants and suicidality; information on ADHD, bipolar disorder, and eating disorders in children and adolescents; the use of antipsychotics in children and adolescents; non-medication approaches; and more.
This third edition of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple provides parents, patients, therapists, and health care professionals all they need to know about the use of psychoactive medications in the treatment of childhood and adolescent psychological disorders in easy-to-understand language. Readers will find updated DSM-V definitions; new information regarding teen use of antidepressants and suicidality; information on ADHD, bipolar disorder, and eating disorders in children and adolescents; the use of antipsychotics in children and adolescents; non-medication approaches; and more.
In Children of Hoarders, a nationally recognized obsessive compulsive disorder expert Fugen Neziroglu, who regularly appears as a therapist on the TLC television series, Hoarders, shows readers how to cope with both the practical and emotional challenges of growing up with a hoarder, such as dealing with clutter, unsanitary conditions, and a parent’s unwillingness to change. This is the first book written specifically for adult children of hoarders that focuses on the interpersonal effects of hoarding.
As self-absorbed parents grow older and become more dependent on their adult children, hurtful relationships may resurface and become further strained. In the tradition of the best-selling Children of the Self-Absorbed, author Nina Brown offers the first book for adult children of aging narcissistic or self-absorbed parents. Readers will learn practical yet powerful strategies for navigating the intense negative feelings that these parents can incite, as well as tips to protect their children from the criticism, blame, or hostility that may exist between their parent and grandparents.
In Children of the Depressed, a depression expert helps adult children understand and overcome common problems that stem from growing up with a depressed parent, such as poor communication skills and negative self-talk. Using skills and practices rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), readers will learn to shed the old dynamics and ways of thinking that have been weighing them down. By identifying and recognizing the feelings they experienced at a young age, readers will start laying the groundwork for a happier and healthier life—socially, physically, emotionally, and psychologically.
A second edition of a self-help classic, Children of the Self-Absorbed offers the adult children of narcissistic parents the means to understand and cope with the behaviors and attitudes of their mothers and/or fathers while still meeting their own needs.
A second edition of a self-help classic, Children of the Self-Absorbed offers the adult children of narcissistic parents the means to understand and cope with the behaviors and attitudes of their mothers and/or fathers while still meeting their own needs.
This is the first self-help guide addressed to those who are considering suicide. A step-bystep program for change shows how to replace negative beliefs, feel better through coping, and develop alternative skills for solving problems in their lives.
The BITE (Behavioral Interventions, Tips, and Evaluations) program is a flexible and holistic approach to treating adolescents with eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating. To be used in conjunction with the book, Treating Eating Disorders in Adolescents, these handouts and worksheets address all aspects of the recovery process for patients and their families, including meal planning and checklists.
Clinical behavior analysis uses verbally based interventions to treat a range of psychological problems in an outpatient context. This volume offers a collection of current research in this rapidly expanding field, with a special focus on acceptance issues in therapy and the importance of the therapeutic relationship.
Designed for use by mental health professionals and graduate students, Cognitive Defusion Made Simple clearly conceptualizes cognitive defusion—an integral aspect of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)—for accessible and practical reference. The book also provides comprehensive descriptions of a great variety of defusion techniques, and illustrates how and when to introduce defusion in therapy.
Two OCD experts provide therapists with a breakthrough treatment model employing purely cognitive treatment methods, proven effective for people with pure obsessions, harming, religious, and sexual obsessions, as well as checking and mental rituals.
When a spouse or partner returns from war, it is a time of joy and celebration. However, it may also be difficult to readjust to life together after long periods of being apart. Returning service members face many challenges on the path to reintegration, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, insomnia, “battlemind,” and more. In Coming Back Together, clinical psychologist Steven L. Sayers offers real tools to help combat veterans and their partners reestablish family routines and build a stronger sense of intimacy and resilience after a military deployment, even if the returning partner is resistant to help.
Designed for use by mental health professionals and graduate students, Committed Action in Practice clearly conceptualizes committed action—an integral aspect of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)—and offers a deeper investigation of the first of the six core processes of ACT. The book also provides comprehensive descriptions and insight into the conceptualization, integration, and application of committed action in therapy.
Communication is an essential life skill that every teen must learn. But in an age of social media, texting, and ever-evolving technology, teens are—more than ever—forgetting how to engage in real, face-to-face communication, a critical skill for their future success. Based on the classic New Harbinger best-seller, Messages, this book teaches teens necessary skills, such as assertiveness, active listening, and compassion, to help them become effective communicators in the real world, away from their electronic devices. By following the practical, skills-based tips in each chapter, teens will learn powerful communication techniques to last a lifetime.
In Connecting the Dots, a psychologist with over fifteen years of experience working with dementia patients and their loved ones outlines effective methods for communicating meaningfully with those with middle- to late-stage Alzheimer's.
From a founding member of the famous Esalen Massage program at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA, this book guides couples through a sensual and restorative massage exchange. This intimate practice can enhance communication, relieve stress and tension, and to bring more joy into readers lives thorough the healing power of touch.
You aren’t what you think! That’s the message in this powerful, evidence-based workbook for teens who struggle with negative thinking habits. In this practical guide, a licensed psychologist and a health journalist offer a transdiagnostic, cognitive behavioral approach to help readers break free from the nine most common negative thinking habits that make teens sad, worried, angry, and stressed.
After 25 years of research and clinical practice, the authors of this workbook reveal an ages-old truth: namely that the sworn enemy of mental health is one's own silent voice! The book includes dozens of exercises, questionnaires, self-assessments, and journaling activities.
For anyone with intense fears and phobias, every day can feel like a roller-coaster ride. This is especially true for teens. In this powerful book, a clinical psychologist and anxiety expert presents a proven-effective approach to overcoming fears and phobias using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Teen readers will find practical skills for coping with the thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviors that accompany phobias, as well as useful strategies to help them handle the situations that cause fear.
In this monograph, researcher Gordon Foxall proposes a method for extending the capabilities of empirical behavioral science to explore the great range of complex human behavior.
Schema therapy is a highly effective treatment for a number of mental health issues, including difficult-to-treat personality disorders. In this groundbreaking book, three internationally recognized psychologists present a step-by-step guide outlining the most up-to-date innovations in schema therapy (ST). This important book offers a clear and practical road map for putting the schema mode model into practice, improving clients' interpersonal functioning, and integrates the latest advances in contextual behavioral psychology.
As children complete the exercises in Cool, Calm, and Confident, they will develop the assertiveness skills they need to build self-esteem, stop being bullied or bullying others, and stand up for themselves in healthy, nonaggressive ways.
Co-Parenting 101offers a comprehensive, personal, and upfront look at how to effectively raise kids with an ex-spouse. The authors are the creators of the popular website, coparenting101.org, and are co-parents themselves. In the book they share their own experiences, as well as provide professional advice from co-parenting experts. Through practical tips combined with expert parental strategies, this book will encourage and equip divorced parents to put animosity aside and put their kids first.
After a messy divorce, it’s all too common for one parent to try and undermine the relationship between their children and their ex. In Co-parenting with a Toxic Ex, readers are offered a positive parenting approach to coping with a hostile ex-spouse. Inside, mothers and fathers who are dealing with a toxic ex will learn how to avoid parental alienation, as well as techniques for talking to their children in a way that fosters open and honest response. Divorce can be painful, but with the right tools parents can protect their kids and build stronger, more trusting relationships.
Fully revised and based in the latest research, this best-selling book by Edmund Bourne—author of The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook—provides immediate, user-friendly, and effective strategies for overcoming anxiety. Compatible with the latest DSM-V updates, this second edition offers readers a clinically proven, step-by-step program to help them relieve anxiety, fear, and worry for good.
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often feel like they are in emotional overdrive, and may struggle just to get through the day. In Soothe the Suffering, two renowned BPD experts offer simple, easy-to-use skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for addressing the most common issues that people with BPD face every day, such as intense feelings of anger, depression, and anxiety.
Gossip, teasing, and bullying can have a devastating effect on teenage girls. Coping with Cliques was developed to help girls develop a positive identity during these difficult years. The activities in this book equip girls with the tools they need to deal with cyber-bullying, social isolation, pressure to be sexy, and other issues that arise in middle school and high school.
Gossip, teasing, and bullying can have a devastating effect on teenage girls. Coping with Cliques was developed to help girls develop a positive identity during these difficult years. The activities in this book equip girls with the tools they need to deal with cyber-bullying, social isolation, pressure to be sexy, and other issues that arise in middle school and high school.
Adult children whose parents are invalidating, critical, demanding, or hateful require skills to advocate for their own needs. In this much-needed guide, readers will learn how to employ unique assertiveness strategies based on the characteristics of their own family dynamics; uncover the hidden motives behind their parents’ behavior; put a stop to repetitive, hurtful interactions without cutting off their problem parents; and foster healthier relationships.
Two of the leading male sex therapists in the United States offer readers a treatment program for coping with erectile dysfunction that includes assessment, treatment strategies, and a complete relapse prevention program.
Coping with OCD offers a brief yet comprehensive and effective approach to dealing with the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)-a great book for people recently diagnosed with OCD and a source of in-the-moment strategies for managing symptoms for those already receiving treatment.
Premature ejaculation (PE) is a disorder with many complex causes and a bewildering array of treatment strategies available for each. This is the only book that addresses all types of PE with the latest, scientifically based treatments. Readers begin the process by breaking down the myths of male sexual performance and analyzing male sexual desire. Then, they select and begin a recovery plan specific to their needs.
Coping with Tourette Syndrome includes forty activities to help children with Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders learn to manage their symptoms in a variety of situations, explain their tics to others, and make friends.
This book will help readers identify their partner's personal jealousy triggers, and learn proven-effective methods for addressing the root cause, ultimately fostering healthy communication and shared intimacy.
This revised and expanded edition of the classic relationship-skills book offers couples a comprehensive approach to better communication, greater intimacy, and deeper commitment. The new edition includes way to use acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) principles for better conflict management.
In Courage after Fire for Parents of Service Members, three psychologists provide a compassionate and accessible guide for the parents or guardians of returning troops.This is the only self-help book written specifically for the parents of returning soldiers, and it offers coping strategies and practical tips for helping these heroes recover from physical and mental trauma when they return home.
These twelve subtle, poignant, and powerful stories capture the depth of feeling and emotion of a young Hungarian Jewish woman who, at the age of fourteen, was interred in a Nazi concentration camp. Told through a range of distinct and unforgettable voices, these stories are mythic in both scope and depth-a transfixing and unforgettable book about tragedy, loss, and transcendence.
Anger is an intense emotion that everyone deals with, but when feelings of anger spiral out of control, they can get in the way of living a full and happy life. In Daily Meditations for Calming Your Angry Mind, leading mindfulness expert and best-selling author of Calming Your Anxious Mind, Jeffrey Brantley, offers practical, daily mindfulness-based meditations to help readers gain control of their emotional reactions, improve their relationships, and create balance, peace, and well-being.
The best-selling author of Calming Your Anxious Mind offers a wealth of daily mindfulness meditations you can use every day to manage chronic anxiety, restore calm, and feel at peace.
A psychologist who specializes in career counseling and personal development helps reader understand the emotional aspects of searching for a new job and learn how to identify and get beyond the issues that prevent them from finding and growing with work they really love.
Characterized by obsessive thoughts, fears, and anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be an extremely debilitating condition. However, many people with OCD are reluctant to start treatment due to fear, stigma, and misconceptions regarding exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy. In Daring to Challenge OCD, anxiety specialist Joan Davidson, PhD, gives a thorough overview of ERP, what to expect during treatment, and offers guidance to help readers finally overcome the common fears and anxiety that can stand in the way of getting the help they need.
Why do we push love away? In Daring to Love, Tamsen and Robert W. Firestone outline powerful techniques based in Robert Firestone’s groundbreaking voice therapy—a process of giving spoken word to unhealthy patterns—to help readers identify the internal barriers that cause them to sabotage their love life. Using the strategies in this book, readers will learn to communicate better, open themselves up to vulnerability, and build the intimate, lasting relationships they truly desire.
This spellbinding graphic novel follows the adventures of Violet—a young witch whose mother was murdered when she was a child. As she wages war against necromancers and demons, Violet learns to overcome her internal monsters as well. Dark Agents seamlessly weaves together evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) skills into a comic book format to help teach teens and young adults about mindfulness, acceptance, and self-compassion.
In the tradition of ACT Made Simple, DBT Made Simple is a manual for therapists seeking to understand and apply the four dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills in individual therapy. DBT is an effective treatment for borderline personality disorder, self-injury, chemical dependency, trauma related to sexual abuse, and various mood disorders.
In Deep Medicine, surgeon and holistic health pioneer William Stewart explains the mind-body connection and shows readers how they can tap into the healing power of their inner wisdom to actualize their health goals.
This book shows readers who struggle with both anxiety and depression, how to tolerate distress, use mindfulness, behavior strategies, end negative self-talk, resovle inner conflict, and go on to create positive experiences and personal meaning in their lives.
Depression: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed helps readers who have just been diagnosed with major depressive disorder to process their diagnosis, find the most effective treatments, and feel better.
This new book in New Harbinger's 101 series, Depression 101, offers practical and proven tools for overcoming depression in a concise and accessible format.
A thyroid specialist and a psychologist that specializes in depression team up to provide the person suffering with a thyroid disorder this first ever combined medical and cognitive-behavioral approach to overcome the depression that arises from this problem.
By implementing the techniques described in Derived Relational Responding, techniques based on a breakthrough new understanding of how humans acquire and use language, clinicians can make significant progress with their clients with autism and other developmental disabilities, limiting the loss of cognitive and social functioning that typically results from these conditions.
This text, aimed at undergraduate-level students of human development, offers an integrative overview of development from a contextual-behavioral viewpoint.
At-risk adolescents may exhibit signs of moodiness, aggression, and even self-injury, and these behaviors often cause parents, teachers, and clinicians to become extremely frustrated. Adolescents themselves may even believe that change is impossible. Drawing on proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy for At-Risk Adolescents is the first reader-friendly and easily accessible DBT book specifically targeted to mental health professionals treating adolescents who may be dangerous to themselves or others.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy will teach mental health professionals how to successfully integrate DBT-oriented skills training into the therapy process, including techniques such as distress tolerance, mindfulness-based self-soothing exercises, and emotion regulation. Includes a web link to five slide-show training presentations and a series of useful client worksheets therapists can use to reinforce the work they do in sessions.
In Digging Out, two psychologists who specialize in compulsive hoarding show readers with a friend or family member who hoards how to use harm reduction, a proven-effective model, to help their loved one live safely and comfortably in his or her own home and improve their relationship with the hoarder.
Disarming the Narcissist, Second Edition, is a practical, step-by-step communication guide for coping with and confronting a narcissist. In the book, readers learn how to respond with empathy, separate themselves from the narcissist's traps, and gain the respect and validation they deserve. This edition includes new chapters dealing with narcissistic women, aggressive and abusive narcissists, strategies for safety, and the link between narcissism and sex addiction.
Disarming the Narcissist, Second Edition, is a practical, step-by-step communication guide for coping with and confronting a narcissist. In the book, readers learn how to respond with empathy, separate themselves from the narcissist's traps, and gain the respect and validation they deserve. This edition includes new chapters dealing with narcissistic women, aggressive and abusive narcissists, strategies for safety, and the link between narcissism and sex addiction.
What is it that remains when the spiritual path, and even enlightenment, is transcended? Dismantling the Fantasy is a consideration of the movement out of thought itself, revealing how our bodies, minds, and emotions are in a constant process of change, and how all words and ideas are an effort to understand and describe existence—which simply is, whether we’re thinking about it or not. With this thorough investigation of experience, readers will realize their erroneous impressions of form, and replace them with a sense of life as motion without shape.
Readers learn a step-by-step method for creating a personal ethical foundation based on integrity, competence, personal responsibility, respect, and awareness of others' welfare.
The very things we do to control anxiety can make anxiety worse. In this unique book, psychotherapist Jennifer Shannon offers a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based approach to help readers recognize the constant chatter of their anxious “monkey mind,” stop feeding anxious thoughts, and finally find the personal peace they crave.
Anxiety is an epidemic in our modern world, and studies now show a direct link between emotion regulation and anxiety. Based in the latest research from a Yale University psychologist and professor, Don’t Let Your Anxiety Run Your Life provides a groundbreaking, step-by-step guide for managing the emotions that cause anxiety, worry, fear, and panic. The simple yet powerful tips in this book will help readers stay calm, collected, and make significant improvements in their everyday lives, whether at work, at home, or in relationships.
An eclectic mix of cognitive-behavioral techniques, skills training, Zen, and existentialism, Dialectical Behavior Therapy helps readers pay attention to their emotions, assess their blocks to controlling them, and become less judgmental of themselves when they lose control. Worksheets and assessment exercises round out this breakthrough program.
Kids often have strong emotions. But if a child’s emotions interfere with school, alienate them from their peers, or cause constant conflicts at home, parents need resources to help calm the chaos. In this much-needed guide, two dialectical behavior therapists offer an activity-based workbook for kids who struggle with anger, mood-swings, and emotional and behavioral dysregulation. Using the skills outlined in this book, kids will be able to manage their emotions, get along with others, and do better in school.
Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens presents a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) workbook to help teens manage difficult emotions and unhealthy coping mechanisms. Teens with depression, anxiety, anger, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder will learn to take charge of their own feelings and start feeling calmer and more stable. Skills learned include mindfulness, emotion regulation, crisis management, and interpersonal relationship techniques. Based on the bestselling workbook Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life, this guide will help teen readers get along with family and friends, and cope with the highs and lows of adolescence in healthy and productive ways.
Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens presents a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) workbook to help teens manage difficult emotions and unhealthy coping mechanisms. Teens with depression, anxiety, anger, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder will learn to take charge of their own feelings and start feeling calmer and more stable. Skills learned include mindfulness, emotion regulation, crisis management, and interpersonal relationship techniques. Based on the bestselling workbook Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life, this guide will help teen readers get along with family and friends, and cope with the highs and lows of adolescence in healthy and productive ways.
Help for social anxiety & social phobia. Clear, supportive instructions for assessing your fears, improving or developing new social skills, and changing self-defeating thinking patterns.
A number of esteemed scholars present work to support the implementation of early detection and treatment strategies for substance-abuse problems within the context of primary medical care.
In Eat Naked, a nutritional therapy practitioner and founder of the website www.eatnakednow.com, presents easy-to-implement guidelines for stripping away the packaging, preservatives, fillers, pesticides, and artificial additives from your diet. Eating fresh and organic, "naked" meals helps to strengthen the immune system, prevent or reverse degenerative diseases, and delay the aging process.
In Eat, Drink, and Be Mindful, eating disorder specialist and best-selling author Susan Albers, provides a workbook with seventy proven-effective and easy to use psychological and mindfulness techniques for real change, including how to get back on track during setbacks, and how to maintain motivation rather than gravitating back to mindless eating and the familiar patterns that keep you unhappy with your body.
This revised and expanded edition of Eating Mindfully, Susan Albers’ original bestselling introduction to mindful eating, features an additional chapter and new strategies readers can use to change their eating behaviors and establish a healthy relationship to food and their bodies. Albers is also author of 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food (ISBN: 978-1572246768) and But I Deserve This Chocolate!(ISBN: 978-1608820566).
“Turn mindless eating habits into mindful eating habits.” That’s the message Susan Albers—author of Eating Mindfully and the New York Times bestseller Eat Q—offers teens in this important workbook. With this guide, teen readers will find clinically proven mindfulness-based activities to help them avoid overeating, make healthier food choices, and start feeling good about their bodies.
Psychological know-how and Buddhist wisdom combine in Eating the Moment to offer readers compassionate, meal-by-meal advice for developing a healthful and satisfying relationship to food that can correct problems with binge eating, compulsive overeating, and other food-related problems.
In The Ecology of Consciousness, a Harvard scholar and pioneer in the field of consciousness studies—well known for his groundbreaking psychedelic research with Ram Dass and Timothy Leary—presents an expansive work culminating decades of research in Eastern philosophy, shamanism, and more to offer readers a true path to transformation and complete consciousness.
In this edited volume, three leading experts in race, mental health, and contextual behavior science address the urgent problem of racial inequities and biases, whichoften prevent people of color from seeking mental health services—leading to poor outcomes if and when they do receive treatment. This critical and timely guide provides clinicians and educators with evidence-based recommendations for addressing inequities at multiple levels, as well as best practices for compassionately and effectively helping clients across a range of cultural groups and settings.
Contemporary spiritual teacher Amoda Maa Jeevan dispels the outdated view of a transcendent enlightenment and instead presents a new, feminine expression of awakened consciousness for all—one that is felt and known through what our everyday lives are made of: our emotions, bodies, intimate relationships, work, and life’s purpose. This book is a direct invitation to awaken in a profound, embodied way—to consciously live that awakening in the midst of our messy lives—and to participate in a collective evolution that can create a new world.
Embrace Your Greatness offers 50 quick tips and tools to help readers overcome self-doubt, silence their inner critic, be assertive, boost self-esteem, and embrace their greatness using a variety of evidence-based modalities—including mindfulness, acceptance, self-compassion, and positive psychology.
In this groundbreaking guide for clinicians, best-selling author Matthew McKay presents emotional efficacy therapy (EET)—a powerful and proven-effective model for treating clients with emotion regulation disorders, including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder (BPD). Using the brief, transdiagnostic, and exposure-based approach in this book, clinicians can help their clients manage difficult emotions, curb negative reactions, and start living a better life.
A nationally recognized expert and radio personality offers a unique 10 minute a day program for helping couples exercise and tone their emotional skills, resolve problems, increase intimacy, have better sex, and cope honestly with anger and hurt.
Emotional Fitness for Intimacy offers simple, engaging techniques couples in long-term relationships can use to sustain that spark, build deeper intimacy, and reinvigorate their love.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) expert and clinical psychologist Jenny Taitz presents End Emotional Eating, a comprehensive guide to overcoming the emotional eating issues that are at the root of most overeating and binge eating difficulties.
Sleep is one of the most important keys to a healthy lifestyle, yet difficulties with falling asleep, staying asleep, and getting good-quality sleep are growing problems in our culture. End the Insomnia Struggle is a comprehensive, fully customizable guide to help anyone who struggles with insomnia. Packed with research-based strategies and practical tools that integrate the physiology of sleep, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this book will give readers everything they need to change their relationship with sleep—and finally get to sleep and stay asleep, night after night.
More than half of those who recover from depression will suffer a relapse within three years. This book helps readers beat these repeating cycles. It includes self-assessment tools, engaging exercises, and practical advice about antidepressant medication and psychotherapy. Readers will come away with everyday strategies for thinking realistically, having fun, and being physically well.
Power struggles between parents and teens are nothing new—we’re all familiar with the image of kids and parents locked in a battle for control—but what really drives these conflicts? According to the author, psychotherapist Neil Brown, these struggles occur because the family control dynamic is dysfunctional. Chock-full of easy-to-use evidence-based tools, this book will help parents and teens overcome chronic conflict and foster a peaceful and loving home environment.
Views of the ethical treatment of persons with disabilities are changing rapidly. The fervently held goals of yesterday are often the rejected status quo of today. Bringing together behavioral psychologists, physicians, consumers, and advocates, this book deals with how things ought to be for persons with developmental disabilities. If you work with persons who have disabilities, you need this book.
This everyday guide isn’t just about surviving with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)—it’s about thriving. In Everyday Mindfulness for OCD, two experts in OCD team up to teach readers how mindfulness, humor, and self-compassion can help them to stop dwelling on what’s wrong and start enhancing what’s right—leading to a more joyful life. The daily exercises, tips, games, metaphors, and mantras in this guide not only ease the suffering OCD causes, but also highlight each reader’s unique assets and strengths in order to improve relationships and live a better life.
Contextual behavioral science seeks to understand the behavior of individuals and groups in the context of their environments. Meanwhile, evolutionary science examines the effects that environmental selection pressures and heritable variation have on all species. In Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science, two renowned experts in these two fields argue why these schools of thought are intrinsically linked, as well as why their reintegration—or, reunification—is essential.
This book brings together some of the leading figures in applied and basic behavior analysis, to ponder issues at the cutting edge of a behavioral approach to complex human behavior.
Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder children face today. Written by expert clinicians in the field of child psychology, this professional book offers a comprehensive, practical guide for implementing exposure therapy specifically for children and adolescents with anxiety. Each chapter is devoted to tailoring exposure work to a specific anxiety-related condition, such as separation anxiety, phobias, panic, social anxiety, and more, using a variety of creative exposure ideas and activities.
In Express Yourself, a practicing psychotherapist teaches teen girls how to communicate effectively and show assertiveness in any situation, whether it is online or at school, with friends, parents, bullies, cliques, or crushes. Teen girls will learn effective techniques based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to promote positive interactions with others, tips for dealing with difficult emotions, and strategies to boost self-esteem and confidence.
Falling in Love with Where You Are invites readers to discover a deep YES to life, no matter what they’re going through; to see crisis as an opportunity to heal, pain as an intelligent messenger, and imperfections as perfectly placed. Through his prose and poetry, Jeff Foster will guide, provoke, encourage, and inspire readers on their lonely, joyful, and sometimes exhausting pathless journeys to the Home they never, ever left: the present moment.
In Feeding the Starving Mind, a clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist presents a program designed to help the older teen or adult with low-weight eating disorders like anorexia nervosa develop healthy eating habits and cope with chronic anxiety.
This update of the best-selling book on fibromyalgia and myofascial pain includes brand new diagnostic information, effective new treatment options, and extensive new provider references for these often-linked conditions.
The principles of the revolutionary new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) help readers cope with the aftereffects of traumatic experience through the straightforward exercises in Finding Life Beyond Trauma.
Finding Sunshine After the Storm is a workbook for children who have experienced sexual abuse includes forty activities drawn from play therapy that kids can do to learn to manage anger, establish safe boundaries, identify adults they can trust, and build their self-esteem.
In his years working with children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), pediatrician Stephen Scott Cowan has discovered that what helps one child focus his or her attention may not benefit another. There are five distinct ways children focus, presented for the first time in Fire Child, Water Child. This guide to parenting children with ADHD helps parents identify their child’s focusing style—fire, metal, water, wood, or earth—and use the appropriate skills and parenting techniques to reduce ADHD symptoms. For example, while children with metal focusing styles thrive with rules, regulation, and structure, and like knowing what is going to happen next, “fire” children seek explosive excitement and adventure. This guide offers practical skills and activities parents can use with each of the five adaptive ADHD types to help their children tap into their innate ability to develop calm focus. The author also discusses medication and other adjunctive treatments parents can use to supplement the five adaptive phase model in this book.
One hundred simple, fun practices to focus and inspire your day using mindfulness, meditation, and imagery that anyone can do in just five minutes a day in order to set your intention, get off on the right foot, and enrich your life
These 100 simple and fun practices will help couples find quality time for each other no matter how crazy their schedules. In only five minutes, these simple activities will help them become more mindful and focused on another, leading to more a intimate, connected, and loving relationship.
This second edition of Flying Without Fear, written by a former lead trainer for American Airlines' AAir Born program, helps anxious flyers understand the reasons and physiology of their fears and teaches them how to cope with their anxieties, both before flights and while in the air.
Free from OCD includes forty activities designed to teach teens with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy strategies for overcoming their fears and compulsions.
Mindfulness is a powerful treatment for anxious thoughts and negative emotions. However, many people find it difficult to apply the principles of mindfulness when they are in the throes of anxious worries and destructive moods. In this book, psychologist Scott Symington presents a ridiculously easy, breakthrough mindfulness approach called the two-screen method to help when the painful thoughts feel overwhelming.
In Freedom from Self-Harm, two psychologists specializing in self-injury treatment present a program based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for overcoming cutting and other self-harming behaviors. Readers learn coping skills for handling difficult emotions and urges to injure themselves.
A unique approach to male anger management using mindfulness, compassion, and self-awareness exercises to help men understand and deal with angry feelings that can damage their careers and relationships.
It’s okay for teens to feel angry once in a while—it’s how they react to anger that really matters. Rather than teaching teens to suppress their anger, this much-needed book offers a comprehensive mindfulness program to help young readers harness the power of anger in positive ways. Using the author’s innovative “Listen, Look, Leap” process, teens will learn to understand and channel anger into healthy expressions of creativity, advocacy, and empowerment.
In her memoir Full, Kimber Simpkins captures vividly—with piercing insight, raw emotion, and humor—the all-consuming hunger that she felt on a daily basis due to an eating disorder and body dissatisfaction. As she experiences a spiritual awakening through yoga and Buddhism, Simpkins takes readers on her painful yet poignant journey as she recovers from anorexia, eases the emotional pain of her hunger, and finally becomes full.
How therapists relate to their clients can have a profound impact on treatment outcomes. Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Made Simple is the first professional resource to offer a practical treatment approach focused on interpersonal relationships. Written by the founders of this evidence-based modality, the book integrates the latest research on the importance of the therapist-client relationship with the new science of social connection into a user-friendly, contextual behavioral framework.
This book develops acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a revolutionary and exciting new direction in psychotherapy, into step-by-step exercises readers can use to get relief from emotional pain. Written by ACT's founding theorist, the book offers a self-help program proven to be effective for coping with a range of problems, from anxiety to depression, eating disorders to poor self-esteem.
Based on the bestselling book Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life by acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) founder Steven Hayes, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens helps readers identify and act on their values, even when faced with difficult emotions and life events.
Identify the signs and symptoms of major mental health problems, assess your own mental health problem, learn about proven-effective, most current treatments, find the right therapist, and know what to expect from therapy—all in this comprehensive, authoritative guide to mental health.
Written by a family therapist and eating disorder specialist, this book will help teens challenge their own thinking and transform their relationship to food, giving them the skills they need to manage their emotions and find the comfort and sweetness they truly seek in life—without overeating!
Divorce is often stressful for kids. But for kids who have parents in conflict with one another, or where one parent is so hostile that he or she is actively trying to undermine the kids' relationship with the other parent, divorce can be unbearable. In But I Love You Both, two psychologists and experts in parental alienation offer a workbook for kids who are feeling torn between two parents in a hostile divorce. The book also deals with the negative impact of custody disputes and helps children understand and identify their feelings, learn to cope with stress and other complex emotions, and feel safe and loved.
In Getting Unstuck in ACT, psychotherapist and bestselling author of ACT Made Simple, Russ Harris, tackles common ACT obstacles faced by both therapists and their clients that can make them feel "stuck." These obstacles include sending mixed messages on the part of the therapist, a lack of motivation on the clients' part, as well as confusion regarding the theoretical basis of ACT. This book is a must-have for any ACT therapist looking to streamline their therapeutic approach.
Global Shift describes a major shift in consciousness that has emerged from the efforts of the many people working to solve the systemic problems plaguing our world today, such as climate change, poverty, and disease. Author Edmund Bourne presents a call to actions we can implement in our daily lives, such as voluntary simplicity, caring for our bodies, nonviolent communication, forgiveness, mindfulness, inclusive global thinking, and letting go. These actions can foster personal healing and bring our lives into alignment with the needs of the planet and a conscious universe.
'The Green Chef,' Leslie Cerier, presents Gluten-Free Recipes for the Conscious Cook, a vegetarian cookbook filled with recipes for gluten-free, delicious meals the whole family can enjoy. The book includes tips on seasonal cooking, adapting family recipes to accommodate celiac disease, and incorporating wholesome organic ingredients for optimal nutrition.
In Goodnight Mind, two psychologists specializing in sleep and mood disorders offer readers an easy-to-use, friendly guide to getting to sleep when their mind is spinning and their thoughts won’t quiet down. This book offers evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to help readers overcome insomnia and get a good night's sleep.
Grief can affect both body and mind—and teens dealing with grief may not know how to work through grief in healthy ways. In this helpful and healing guide, the director of the Children’s Grief Connection offers help for teens dealing with the physical aspects of grief and loss. This book utilizes somatic, body-oriented skills to help teens know how and why their bodies are reacting to grief, as well as ways to relieve anxiety and confusion and begin the healing process.
If you are experiencing grief, this book takes your hand and guides you along the path of your own healing journey and learning how to accept the changes along the way.
When teens lose a sibling, it is devastating. They lose a lifetime playmate, confidant, role model, and friend. Now, for the first time, a psychotherapist specializing in teen and adolescent bereavement offers an essential guide for teens who have lost a sibling. In the book, teens will learn how to process difficult feelings by finding their unique coping style, deal with overwhelming emotions, and find constructive ways to cope with this profound loss so they can moveforward in a meaningful and healthy way.
In this compassionate and practical book, a Buddhist psychotherapist, Sameet Kumar, Ph.D., who specializes in applying meditation techniques to clinical problems, uses a unique combination of Buddhist spiritual practice and proven psychological strategies to help readers develop, understand, and transform their grief.
Handbook for Analyzing the Social Strategies of Everyday Life offers an overview of how the different social sciences set out to analyze and explain the complex social behaviors of everyday life.
A comprehensive resource discussing behavior analytic applications including: pediatric medicine, school psychology, industrial and organizational applications, sports psychology, college teaching, and more.
The Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists is the go-to resource for mental health clinicians looking for clear, reliable information about the treatment of mental health issues. This updated and fully revised eighth edition provides essential information on new medications and treatment options, and includes the latest research on side effects, contraindications, and efficacy of all major medications prescribed for mental health disorders.
The Handbook of Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists is the go-to resource for mental health clinicians looking for clear, reliable information about the treatment of mental health issues. This updated and fully revised eighth edition provides essential information on new medications and treatment options, and includes the latest research on side effects, contraindications, and efficacy of all major medications prescribed for mental health disorders.
This book examines the intervention styles of a range of different behavioral professional with the goal of fostering greater interdisciplinary information exchange and collaboration.
Traumatic events can leave mental and physical scars—but these scars don’t have to define us. Heal the Body, Heal the Mind takes trauma survivors on a supportive and healing journey toward well-being. By practicing the somatic exercises and mind-body interventions in this compassionate guide, readers will learn to move past difficult experiences, restore their relationships, and cultivate spiritual awareness.
A dermatologist and psychologist helps adult acne sufferers cope with both the physical and psychological damage caused by this common disorder, and offers stress-relieving tips, help for building self-esteem, as well as naturopathic and medical treatments for adult acne.
In Healing the Angry Brain, bestselling author Ronald Potter-Efron explains how the brain is wired for anger and how readers with anger management problems can short-circuit angry reactions to reduce outbursts and communicate more effectively with others.
This workbook offers women who have suffered sexual, physical, or emotional abuse crucial skills for coping, self-understanding, and self-care. The book is designed to be worked through from beginning to end, with self-evaluation questionnaires, writing exercises, and a variety of activities and relaxation techniques throughout. Also included are questions to ask a doctor, a personal crisis plan, and a comprehensive list of resources.
A domestic violence expert offers the first-ever PTSD treatement approach to help abused women overcome the trauma they have endured and regain control of thier lives.
In Healing Yoga for Neck and Shoulder Pain, Duke Integrative Medicine yoga therapist and personal trainer Carol Krucoff offers readers effective yoga stretches, postures, and mind-body techniques for eliminating neck and shoulder pain and tension.
Salad instead of steak? Exercise? Skipping that second beer or glass of wine? Healthy habits are the worst. Blending humor and irreverence with the science of behavior change, a health psychologist and runner who’s never experienced a “runner’s high” offers practical, counterintuitive strategies and a playful approach to help readers live a healthier life—even if they really want to just sit on the couch and eat ice cream.
This definitive new self-help guide offers help to the millions of Americans who suffer from trichotillomania, an obsessive-compulsive disorder that leads them to pull out their hair.
A fully revised and expanded edition of a best-selling classic, this book offers complete information about parenting a child with a nonverbal learning disorder or Asperger's disorder. This edition includes a new section on anxiety and social anxiety, now commonly held to be major issues for children with these conditions, and new specific skills training for social behaviors limited by a child's ability to perform.
A teen who is habitually angry, morose, or acting out can be a parent’s greatest challenge. In Parenting Your Angry Teen, psychologist and teen expert Mitch Abblett offers frustrated parents powerful mindfulness tips to navigate heated moments of interaction with their child, as well as skills based in positive psychology to foster compassion, caring, and lasting connection.
This revised and expanded edition of the best-selling Helping Your Anxious Child offers parents the most up-to-date, proven-effective techniques for helping children overcome anxiety.
Written by a psychologist and expert on adolescent anxiety, this book is an essential how-to guide for parents, showing how their own behavior can either help or exacerbate their teen’s symptoms, and outlining specific skills parents can use to support their child. Readers will learn that when it comes to anxiety, simple interventions can make a big difference in how teens manage their feelings.
Written by a child anxiety expert, this is the first parenting book to focus specifically on separation anxiety disorder, providing parents with the skills they need to cope with distressing challenges such as tantrums, nightmares, inconsolable crying, and screaming that occur during times of separation.
This workbook teaches parents how to improve their child's functioning at home, increase his/her social functioning and skills for living more independently (including leisure, self-help, participation in community, etc.), while emphasizing the importance of taking care of the family as a whole.
Having a child who is a picky eater can be both frustrating and worrisome—especially for parents who are concerned their child isn’t getting the nutrition they need to grow, stay healthy and strong, and thrive. In Helping Your Child with Extreme Picky Eating, a family doctor offers a clinically proven program called STEPS (Supportive Treatment of Eating in Preschoolers) to help parents of children with moderate to severe feeding or selective eating disorders. Parents will learn to support healthy and balanced eating, maintain their child’s healthy weight, and end meal-time anxiety once and for all.
Based in cutting-edge research in neuroscience, education, and the principles of attachment-based teaching, this important guide for parents offers tools and practices to help children transcend language-based learning difficulties such as dyscalculia, dyslexia, and auditory processing disorder. Using the tools provided in this book, children will hone the skills needed to do better in school, gain self-confidence and self-esteem, and cultivate a positive mindset.
Left untreated, childhood OCD can lead to a lifetime of struggle with anxiety. This personalized guide for parents of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder explains the causes of the disorder and the scope of available treatments. It is full of assessments, fill-ins, and progress charts that encourage parents to get involved in and stay committed to their childís recovery.
Three experts in treating selective mutism team up to provide parents with the first book to offer practical strategies for treating children with this potentially isolating anxiety disorder often referred to as 'social phobia's cousin.'
Many clients with shyness and social anxiety believe they can never change. They may even adjust their lives to avoid social activities or situations that make them uncomfortable. In a sense, they allow their social "muscles" to atrophy, and in the end may become even more alienated and despondent. There is hope. Just as physical fitness strengthens the body, "social fitness" can be developed through habit and action. In Helping Your Shy and Socially Anxious Client, shyness expert Lynne Henderson presents the Social Fitness program—a twelve session cognitive behavioral model for clients with shyness and social anxiety. Inside, mental health professionals will learn powerful tools for helping clients strengthen their social skills, track their successes, and learn to cope with setbacks or hurdles.
Written by psychotherapist and grief expert Alexandra Kennedy, Honoring Grief provides a collection of inspirational wisdom and compassionate self-help tips for dealing with loss. Compatible with any religious or spiritual orientation, this book is a meaningful, comforting gift for a friend, family member, or anyone recently touched by loss.
“Don’t let fear hold you back from experiencing your authentic self.” That’s the message spiritual rebel and internationally renowned teacher Jac O’Keeffe offers in How to Be a Spiritual Rebel. In this courageous, non-dogmatic guide, readers will learn to break free from the limited perceptions they have about themselves, and move beyond mindfulness toward boundless, fearless freedom.
Want to be miserable? It isn’t as difficult as it sounds, and chances are, you’re already doing it! Studies show that repeating specific behaviors can actually increase feelings of dissatisfaction, foster a lack of motivation, and detract from your quality of life. In How to Be Miserable, psychologist Randy Paterson outlines 40 specific behaviors and habits, which—if followed—are sure to lead to a lifetime of unhappiness. On the other hand, if you do the opposite, you may yet join the ranks of happy people everywhere.
With all the pressures of school, friends, and dating, teens are especially vulnerable to low self-esteem. But often, the biggest threat to a teen’s confidence is their own inner critic—whose unrelenting negativity can result in feelings of inadequacy, depression, and anxiety. In this important book, a university psychologist presents a quirky, accessible, and useful guide to help teens fight back, be kind to themselves, and move forward with confidence.
In this no-nonsense guide for men, psychologist Jonas Horwitz presents evidence-based, straightforward, and jargon-free strategies for men struggling with severe depression. Grounded in proven-effective cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), the skills in this book will help readers find actionable solutions for identifying, naming, and overcoming the depression that is standing in the way of living the life they want.
How much better would our lives be if we fully understood the consequences of our actions, and if we stopped to think before acting or reacting? How Would Buddha Act? offers readers a unique, modern take on the ancient teachings of Right Action—the Buddhist concept of acting in loving, compassionate ways and responding to others with the intention of doing no harm. Readers will learn that every thought, word, and deed has a consequence, and by trying to be a better person in day-to-day life, they will be taking meaningful steps toward true enlightenment.
Our thoughts often betray our intentions, and directly shape our actions. So, how can we overcome negative thoughts and live more consciously? In How Would Buddha Think?, best-selling author of 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, Barbara Ann Kipfer offers an insightful, modern take on the ancient teaching of Right Intention—an important tenet of the Buddhist Eightfold Path focused on the belief that our intentions drive our actions. Readers will learn how to move past thoughts of greed, desire, or ill will toward others, and instead focus on altruism, purpose, and self-actualization.
In the fall of 1981, author Francis Bennett joined a Trappist monastery with the “lofty goal of becoming a joyful saint like St. Francis of Assisi, or at least a modern mystic like my hero, Thomas Merton.” But it was only in letting go of how he thought things should be—and in surrendering his identification with a false, separate sense of self—that he found what he’d truly been seeking. In I Am That I Am, Bennett details his own spiritual journey with a unique freshness and humanity that combines Christian mysticism, Buddhism, and Advaita Vedanta or non-duality teachings to help readers find joy in the present moment and in themselves.
Dr. Sisemore's book draws on scientifically proven strategies for dealing with childhood anxiety. Each simple activity in this collection helps teach children how to stop worrying, overcome their fears, and enjoy being kids. The activities can be used in counseling sessions or as homework exercises.
Dr. Sisemore's book draws on scientifically proven strategies for dealing with childhood anxiety. Each simple activity in this collection helps teach children how to stop worrying, overcome their fears, and enjoy being kids. The activities can be used in counseling sessions or as homework exercises.
Guides readers thru the healing process of recovering from PTSD. Helps survivors cope with memories & emotions, identify triggers, relieve secondary wounding, and gain a sense of empowerment and hope.
Being an empath means feeling all the feels, all the time—and that can be exhausting. In this empowering guide, shamanic practitioner Ora North teaches empaths how to navigate their intuition and sensitivities, draw much-needed boundaries, and build confidence. Sensitive peoplewill also learn how to balance emotions and energy, and harness the strength of their shadow side to embrace their whole self and live their best, most authentic lives.
By working through the activities in I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad, children with anger control problems can develop better emotional and behavioral control. Kids will learn how to identify the things that make them angry, become better problem solvers, talk about their frustrations, and much more.
By working through the activities in I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad, children with anger control problems can develop better emotional and behavioral control. Kids will learn how to identify the things that make them angry, become better problem solvers, talk about their frustrations, and much more.
From the authors of Toxic Coworkers comes Impossible to Please, a guide to communicating with and understanding coworkers, partners, and family members who are stubborn, critical, perfectionistic, and judgmental. These qualities are associated with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD).
Little daily hassles can often add up to big stress. In In This Moment, two internationally-renowned psychologists show readers how to connect with the present moment and find a sense of calm and serenity using a breakthrough, evidence-based program grounded in mindfulness and neuroscience. Over time, chronic stress can take its toll on mental and physical health, leading to everything from anxiety and depression to weight gain and disease. By practicing the exercises in this book, readers will learn to combat stress in healthy ways, stay balanced, and live happier lives, no matter what challenges arise.
At once punk rock and poignant, Ink in Water is the visceral and groundbreaking graphic memoir of a young woman’s devastating struggle with negative body image and eating disorders. Blending bold humor, a healthy dose of self-deprecation, vulnerability, literary storytelling, and dynamic and provocative artwork by illustrator Jim Kettner, author Lacy Davis shows readers how she rose above her destructive behaviors and feelings of inadequacy to live a life of strength and empowerment.
Edited by three leading acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) researchers, this comprehensive volume offers the latest clinical innovations in the rapidly growing and dynamic modality of ACT. With this groundbreaking guide, mental health professionals, ACT instructors, and students alike will learn important new skills for promoting psychological flexibility and improving treatment outcomes.
Almost everyone has felt jealous or insecure in a romantic relationship at some point in their lives. But people who constantly feel these emotions may suffer from anxious attachment, a fear of abandonment often rooted in early childhood experiences. In Insecure in Love, readers will learn how to overcome attachment anxiety using compassionate self-awareness, a technique that can help them recognize negative thoughts and get to the root of their insecurities so that they can cultivate secure, healthy relationships to last a lifetime.
In therapy, it is essential for both clinicians and their clients to pay attention to each moment in-session as an opportunity to create change. In this breakthrough book, cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Kirk Strosahl and two fellow ACT psychologists offer a brief, five-stage model to help clinicians recognize, assess, and take advantage of the subtle shifts of awareness that occur during therapy to achieve the most effective intervention and successful treatment outcomes.
A much-needed resource to aid an underserved segment of the population, this book offers mental health professionals a practical, integrated treatment model-including client and family education, medication, coaching, and psychotherapy-that makes it easier than ever to diagnose and effectively treat adults with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD.)
A noted expert in the treatment of borderline personality disorder presents a comprehensive program for treating this difficult condition-integrating the most effective treatments in use today, including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). This book allows therapists in private practice to make progress with clients with BPD in just a few sessions.
This book offers readers a compassionate and effective strategy for recovery after their partner had cheated: by identifying the three kinds of infidelity; overcoming the pain of betrayal; and learning to rebuild a healthier 'affair-proof' relationship.
At once extraordinarily wide-ranging and sharply focused, Into the Stillness offers readers several deceptively simple and informal conversations about life, existence, and identity in one important book. Authors Gary Weber and Richard Doyle outline practical instructions on how to break free from harmful, self-referential thoughts while providing a path to awakening, wholeness, and stillness.
Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy DVD features video content from a two-day professional workshop with acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) experts Matthew McKay and Patricia Zurita Ona. Viewers learn everything they need to know to start incorporating ACT into their professional practices.
Medicines act on different people in different ways. Introduction to Behavioral Pharmacology offers a scientific framework that will help readers understand how drugs produce behavioral effects and what physiological and environmental variables influence drug action.
When children refuse to do even little things—like picking up their toys or getting in the car to go to school—it’s easy for parents to become frustrated. But what if there was a gentle, effective way for parents to improve their kids’ behavior, without losing their cool or raising their voice? In Is That Me Yelling? a registered nurse and child temperament specialist shows parents how to effectively communicate with their kids by focusing on their child’s unique temperament. Using mindfulness techniques based in cognitive behavioral theory (CBT) and temperament theory, readers will learn to reduce conflict and foster cooperation, respect, and understanding in their family.
In It Happened to Me, a psychologist presents guided exercises to help teens who have been sexually abused reflect on what happened to them, examine its impact on their lives, and motivate themselves to begin to develop healthy and loving relationships as they move toward adulthood.
Shame is one of the most destructive of human emotions. And while anyone can suffer from lingering shame, those who were abused in childhood tend to feel it the most. In It Wasn’t Your Fault, a therapist presents a compassion-based therapeutic approach to help survivors of physical and sexual abuse overcome the debilitating shame that often keeps them tied to the past. By offering step-by-step techniques for understanding the root cause of shame, as well as exercises in mindfulness and compassion for the self and others, this book will help readers begin to heal and move past painful experiences.
Conversations about controversial topics can be difficult, painful, and emotionally charged—especially given our current political environment. However, they’re ultimately essential to grow and move forward. It's Time to Talk (and Listen) is a user-friendly eight-step guide for engaging in effective, candid, and compassionate conversations with family, friends, colleagues, and even strangers about any challenging topic, including race, immigration, gender, marriage equality, sexism, marginalization, and more.
“Stop comparing yourself to others—you’re special just as you are!” That’s the message psychologist Michelle Skeen and her daughter, Kelly Skeen, instill in teen readers with this unique self-help guide. With this fun and engaging book, teens will learn how to silence their nit-picky inner critic, overcome feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness, cultivate self-acceptance and self-compassion, and discover what really matters to them.
Combining meditative principles with fascinating neuroscientific research, Just One Thing presents more than fifty simple practices readers can do each day to wire the brain for increased happiness, positive thinking, and wisdom. Written by Rick Hanson, author of Buddha's Brain, this pocket-sized book helps readers reap the benefits of meditation through simple five to ten-minute practices they can access anytime, anywhere.
Audi Gozlan, a certified yoga instructor and the founder of Kabalah Yoga, offers a book that fuses the practice of yoga with the ancient wisdom of Kabalah, teaching readers how to awaken the secret energy of each Hebrew letter in the alphabet in order to enliven their practice and experience the hidden powers of the universe.
Help kids cultivate real, lasting confidence. In Kid Confidence, a clinical psychologist and parenting expert offers practical, evidence-based parenting strategies to help children build satisfying relationships, embrace personal growth, and discover the freedom that comes with a quiet ego—a deeply rooted sense of competence, confidence, and compassion for oneself and others.
There really is a way to talk so that kids will listen. This is an empowering work, filled with practical skills that will help end sibling fights, boost children's self-esteem, and let parents handle discipline with understanding and authority.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is among the most remarkable developments in contemporary psychotherapy and proven effective in the treatment of several mental health conditions—including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and more. With updated exercises based on new research and discoveries in contextual behavioral science, this fully revised edition of Learning ACT is an essential resource for both experienced practitioners and those new to using ACT and its applications.
Learning ACT for Group Treatment presents a powerful manual for clinicians, therapists, and counselors looking to implement acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in group therapy with clients. The book is a composite of stand-alone sessions, and provides detailed explanations of each of the core ACT processes, as well as printable worksheets, tips on group session formatting, and a wide range of activities that foster willingness, cooperation, and connection among participants.
Relational frame theory (RFT) is a theory of language and cognition that upends traditional cognitive paradigms and forms the foundation of today's cutting-edge therapies, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Learning RFT makes RFT accessible to clinicians for the first time and explains how RFT principles can be directly applied in clinical work.
The breakthrough book Learning to Breathe presents a research-based curriculum for teachers and clinicians who are seeking ways to help improve behavior and bolster academic performance in adolescents. Drawing on a combination of mindfulness-based therapies, the brief interventions outlined in the book have a strong theoretical basis in both education and psychology, and are proven effective when it comes to dealing with adolescent students who act out in the classroom.
The breakthrough book Learning to Breathe presents a research-based curriculum for teachers and clinicians who are seeking ways to help improve behavior and bolster academic performance in adolescents. Drawing on a combination of mindfulness-based therapies, the brief interventions outlined in the book have a strong theoretical basis in both education and psychology, and are proven effective when it comes to dealing with adolescent students who act out in the classroom.
One of the nation's leading experts on treating behavioral problems through play, Lawrence Shapiro, offers a collection of fun activities and exercises designed to teach children behavioral skills like empathy, compliance, and more. This program will help kids develop self-control and understand the importance of being cooperative.
This warm and engaging little book distills the very best techniques from the best-selling Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook to beat stress, calm down, and get centered and focused into a powerful collection of step-by-step practices, which include progressive muscle relaxation, visualization, and mindfulness exercises.
In Leaves Falling Gently, clinician and researcher Susan Bauer-Wu presents mindfulness and compassion practices designed to help readers with serious illnesses find fulfillment and peace. Readers learn a variety of skills for improving their quality of life, coping with fears, and making meaningful connections with others.
This activity book helps children acquire the skills to make and keep new friends, including: choosing friends with common interests, reading non-verbal cues, and developing specific communication skills like inviting a child to a party or talking on the phone. The book is designed for the estimated 30-40% of children who find themselves socially isolated or rejected by their peers. Simple, fun activites to help kids: Find deep and lasting friendships; Develop give-and-take relationships; Cope with rejection and disappointment.
A revised and updated edition from best-selling anger management author Ronald Potter-Efron, this book identifies the eleven most common anger patterns and offers step-by-step help for overcoming them.
Liberation Unleashed introduces readers to the process of unraveling the false sense of a separate self at the center of our existence. With insightful metaphors, personal stories, and guided dialogues, this book points directly to our lack of separation and helps readers move toward a new, more open reality of selfless bliss. Using the seven clear and focused steps presented, readers will find liberation in realizing there is no individuated “I” and marvel at the true nature of things.
The best-selling author of The Gift of ADHD offers cognitive behavioral and mindfulness strategies for transforming depression into a tool for growth; exploring how depression can point us towards important truths about our selves; and discovering how to use our depression to change our lives in meaningful ways.
Certified yoga instructor Jennifer Cohen Harper introducesLittle Flower Yoga for Kids, a fun and unique program that combines yoga and mindfulness in an easy-to-read book. This program is designed especially for parents and kids, and is aimed at teaching children to pay attention, increase focus, and balance their emotions—all while building physical strength and flexibility. Based on a growing body of evidence that yoga and mindfulness practices can help children develop focus and concentration, the simple yoga exercises in this book can easily be integrated into their child’s daily routine, ultimately improving health, behavior, and even school achievement.
In Little Ways to Keep Calm and Carry On, a psychologist, psychiatry professor, and anxiety researcher presents twenty simple lessons based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that readers can use to relieve everyday anxiety on the spot and to develop resilience.
In Living and Loving after Betrayal, clinical psychologist and anger management expert Steven Stosny offers help to those who have experienced betrayal, abuse, deceit, or infidelity in a relationship. This book includes tips for overcoming betrayal-induced trauma and chronic resentment using a compassionate approach, and also explores less-talked-about betrayals, such as emotional manipulation, dishonesty and deceit, and financial betrayal.
Using mindfulness-based techniques and cognitive behavioral tools, a leading expert on the use of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) teaches readers to transcend the experience of chronic pain by reconnecting with other, more valued aspects of their lives.
The book Living Deeply is the product of the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ decade-long investigation into transformations in human consciousness. It transcends any one approach by focusing on common elements of transformation across a variety of traditions, affirming and supporting the diversity of approaches across religious, spiritual, scientific, academic, or cultural backgrounds. Living Deeply makes these teachings accessible without diminishing their complexity, empowering readers to become their own scientists, develop and test their own hypotheses, and reach their own conclusions.
Loneliness and anxiety are modern epidemics, but at their root is the mistaken belief that we are separate, limited individuals who must seek fulfillment somewhere out there, rather than within ourselves and the life we’re already living. Living the Life That You Are offers readers who struggle with feeling lost and alone a new approach to life with radical mindfulness, a combination of mindfulness and self-inquiry based on the ancient teachings of non-duality. With this book, readers will awaken to their true nature and find peace, fullness, and connection, here and now.
Interactive exercises help readers deal with self-esteem issues, change distorted thought patterns, manage stress and develop a structured approach to starting and finishing tasks. Includes strategies for handling common problems at work & school, dealing with intimate realtionships and finding support.
Are you comfortable with the skin you’re in? If not, you aren’t alone. Most people are dissatisfied with some aspect of their physical appearance, but if your unhappiness with your looks starts to take over your life, it’s time to make a change. This book applies powerful acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) principles to help you accept both your body and negative thoughts, and discover new feelings of validity beyond your reflection in the mirror.
In Living with Your Heart Wide Open, Steve Flowers, a prominent mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher, and Bob Stahl, author of the bestselling Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, help readers use mindfulness to move past the universal feelings of shame and self-loathing and develop greater confidence and self-esteem.
Fears of abandonment can give rise to feelings of anger, shame, fear, anxiety, depression, and grief. These emotions are intense and painful, and when they surface they can lead to a number of negative behaviors, such as jealousy, clinging, and emotional blackmail. In Love Me, Don’t Leave Me, therapist Michelle Skeen combines acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), schema therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) to help readers identify the root of their fears so they can build lasting, trusting relationships.
In order to attract a life partner, we must first become a good partner to ourselves. This book offers twenty invaluable lessons that will help readers explore and commit to their own emotional and psychological well-being so they’ll be ready, resilient, confident, and completely whole when they encounter that special someone.
In Loving Someone in Recovery, a therapist offers powerful tools for the partners of recovering addicts. Based in mindfulness, attachment theory, and neurobiology, this book will help readers sustain emotional stability in their relationships, increase effective communication, establish boundaries, and take steps to reignite intimacy. Drawn from the author’s successful Conscious Couples Recovery Workshop, this book addresses the roles that both partners play in recovery, and aims to help readers rebuild trust and connection.
Watching a loved one suffer with an eating disorder can be heart wrenching, and many partners feel powerless to help. In Loving Someone with an Eating Disorder, eating disorder expert Dana Harron offers hope to partners of those suffering from eating disorders. In the book, readers will find an overview of their partner’s disorder, ways to communicate with empathy and understanding, strategies for dealing with mealtime challenges, and tips for finding their way back to trust, love, and intimacy.
Loving Someone with Anxiety offers solutions for the partners of people with anxiety issues such as constant worry, health anxiety, social anxiety, generalized panic disorder (GAD), and panic disorder. In this book, readers will learn how to help their partner feel safe, develop and maintain a strong relationship, and meet their own self-care needs.
Loving Someone with Asperger’s Syndrome is an essential resource for anyone in a relationship with a partner who has Asperger’s. This book explains how Asperger’s may cause problems in a relationship and offers help for communicating, coparenting, and building an emotional connection with a partner who has Asperger’s syndrome.
A complete and practical guide to building a successful relationship with a partner who has attention-deficit disorder (ADD), Loving Someone with Attention Deficit Disorder offers strategies for communicating effectively, setting boundaries, and moving past obstacles together.
Written to the partner of a bipolar individual, this book will help readers mend strained relationships, control episodic crises, learn which coping approaches work, and create loving, healthy relationships. Readers also learn how to recognize a bipolar conversation and survive the financial turbulence manic spending may cause.
Two leading obsessive-compulsive experts help readers create a plan for dealing with someone they love who has OCD. The book provides a step-by-step, skills-building approach for assisting a loved one with such things as ritual prevention and exposure techniques, handling stress and anxiety, and encouraging independence and outside support.
There are many books written for those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but few written for the people who love them. In Loving Someone with PTSD, a renowned trauma expert and author of I Can’t Get Over It! presents concrete skills and strategies for the partners of those with PTSD. Readers will increase their understanding of the signs and symptoms of PTSD, improve their communication skills with their loved ones, set realistic expectations, and work to create a healthy environment for both their loved one and themselves. In addition, they will learn to manage their own grief, helplessness, and fear regarding their partner’s condition.
As divorce rates rise, parents need resources to help them navigate high-conflict situations and put their children first. Loving Your Children More Than You Hate Each Other offers practical tips and strategies to help parents manage intense emotions, deal with shame and blame, and create a peaceful, loving environment for their children using dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and values-based parenting.
Lucifer in the Resthome is a collection of poetry by best-selling author Matthew McKay, who draws on his knowledge of the human mind to explore the deepest levels of loss and hope. His poems chart the delicate path between chaos and survival, finding meaning and purpose even in fear, despair, and physical decline.
Demanding perfection from oneself and others can create a life of stress, worry, and a constant sense of overwhelm. In this unique self-help book, author Elliot Cohen reveals the eleven types of perfectionists, and gives readers the tools and skills they need to move past this distressing mindset before it takes over their lives. With this essential guide for perfectionists, readers will learn to cultivate unconditional self-acceptance in an imperfect world.
A workbook for kids with sensory processing disorder (SPD), a condition characterized by difficulty with sensory integration, Making Sense of Your Senses includes activities designed to help parents teach children skills they can use in everyday life to overcome their symptoms and build self-awareness.
From the author of the successful 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD, Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, Making the Grade with ADD offers college students tips they can use to succeed in all aspects of college life, including academics, money management, health issues, relationships with friends and intimates, and planning for the future.
Faster than a speeding spitball, more powerful than a playground bully, able to breeze through homework and finish nightly chores in a single bound, it’s Master of Mindfulness—here to conquer stress, worry, and any trouble that comes your way!
With this fun and empowering book, written for kids by kids and featuring cool illustrations and tips, young readers will learn how to use the power of mindfulness to address daily stressors—whether at school, at home, or with friends—so they can be confident, get focused, stay calm, and tap into their own inner strength. Kids can be their own superheroes—no matter what life throws their way!
Whoever said being a grownup was easy? For millennials up to the challenge, Mastering Adulthood offers smart and entertaining strategies for dealing with difficult emotions while facing the new realities of adulthood—such as graduating from college, starting a career, gaining financial independence, and creating meaningful relationships. More than just “adulting”—this book gives readers the emotional skills they need to thrive!
In Maximize Your Coaching Effectiveness with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Richard Blonna provides professional life coaches with the skills they need to effectively apply acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) principles to their coaching practices, helping clients to get "unstuck" from the mental barriers that hold them back, stay motivated, and achieve goals aligned with their personal values.
Stress takes a serious toll on health, leading to anxiety, depression, weight gain, and even disease. In the tradition of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein present daily MBSR practices that readers can use every day to stay grounded in the here and now. Drawing on the ancient wisdom of mindfulness, MBSR Every Day is the only book that helps readers integrate MBSR into their daily lives—leading to better stress management, personal inspiration and fulfillment, and awareness of each moment.
The Meditation and Autogenics audio CD program, based on The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, teaches listeners how to use autogenic training to reduce stress and the symptoms of stress-induced psychosomatic disorders. This CD is part of the Relaxation and Stress Reduction Audio Series.
Many people suffer traumatic events and heal naturally. But sometimes people get stuck and develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which may include debilitating symptoms such as depression, anxiety, panic, flashbacks, difficulty sleeping, or losing interest in life. Structured around the most common PTSD symptoms, this evidence-based book delivers easy-to-use mindfulness skills that can be used as needed to alleviate symptoms and promote healing.
This classic, best-selling communication skills book has already helped thousands of people cultivate better relationships with friends, family members, coworkers, and partners. Now fully revised and updated, this long-awaited fourth edition of Messages teaches readers to become active listeners, read body language, identify communication styles, practice conflict resolution, improve public speaking skills, and much more. In addition, the book features a new, crucial chapter on digital communication to help readers thrive in the modern world.
This classic, best-selling communication skills book has already helped thousands of people cultivate better relationships with friends, family members, coworkers, and partners. Now fully revised and updated, this long-awaited fourth edition of Messages teaches readers to become active listeners, read body language, identify communication styles, practice conflict resolution, improve public speaking skills, and much more. In addition, the book features a new, crucial chapter on digital communication to help readers thrive in the modern world.
The use of metaphor is central to the implementation of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and is a powerful tool for all practicing psychotherapists. In Metaphor in Practice, psychotherapist and international ACT trainer Niklas Törneke presents the first practical book to combine the most recent behavioral and linguistic sciences of metaphor, and illustrates how and when to apply metaphors in practice for better treatment outcomes.
Every May college graduates across the country ask themselves one very important question--now what? For Brant Gilmour the answer is prison. With little thought to a career, indeed, despite the bitter consequences of institutionalization, Brant takes a job teaching GED classes to inmates at the Indiana correctional facility made famous by Mike Tyson. And so begins Brant's education.
The Mind and Emotions workbook helps readers resolve anxiety, depression, anger, and emotional disorders through a skills-based, universal treatment created by Matthew McKay, coauthor of Thoughts and Feelings and The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook. This program is rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and allows readers to move past the seven unhealthy coping styles that cause emotional suffering.
Seeking treatment for substance abuse or addiction is half the battle—staying sober is the other. In this important book, physician Stanley Block and addiction specialist Guy du Plessis present a powerful program for overcoming addiction utilizing the mind-body bridging modality. Proven effective in both clinical and research settings, these easy-to-use self-help exercises teach readers how to uncover addiction triggers, stay grounded, and prevent future relapse.
Physician Stanley Block and Carolyn Bryant Block present Mind-Body Workbook for Anger, their third workbook utilizing the mind-body bridging modality. Proven-effective in both clinical and research settings, the easy-to-use self-help exercises in this book teach readers how to stop identifying with angry thoughts and feelings, while allowing their bodies to relax and let go of unconscious tension. In this natural resting state, body and mind are both able to naturally heal and let go of habitual anger issues.
Stanley Block, MD, and Carolyn Bryant Block present their fourth workbook utilizing the innovative and proven-effective mind-body bridging technique. The easy-to-use self-help exercises in Mind-Body Workbook for Anxiety will teach readers how to stop identifying with anxious thoughts and feelings while allowing their bodies to relax and let go of unconscious tension.
The Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD is a ten-week program for healing from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that is based in mind-body bridging, a therapeutic method that includes techniques from mindfulness and mind-body medicine.
Mind-Body Workbook for Stress presents a complete, evidence-based treatment program for reducing stress significantly in one to three weeks by overcoming negative thinking, improving self-esteem and confidence, and optimizing mindfulness and self-care practices.
Mindfulness is a powerful practice that can change lives—but mindfulness alone isn’t enough to completely change the way a brain works. In order to thrive, people need to practice both mindfulness and compassion. Written by the founder of compassion-focused therapy (CFT), Paul Gilbert and former Buddhist monk, Choden, Mindful Compassion is a unique blending of evolutionary and Buddhist psychology designed to help readers develop compassion toward themselves and others in order to end toxic self-criticism, heal trauma and shame, feel worthy and loveable, and live happier, healthier lives.
Kids need both love and limits in order to thrive. In Mindful Discipline, a pediatrician and an internationally recognized mindfulness expert offer parents simple yet powerful tools for raising mindful, respectful, and responsible children. Grounded in mindfulness and the latest research in neuroscience, this book will teach readers how to foster their child's emotional intelligence and self-esteem while also encouraging genuine cooperation. With simple practices, such as honoring a child's strengths, setting limits, and setting a positive example, parents can teach their child the self-discipline and resilience they will need to thrive in life.
In Mindful Motherhood, a psychologist specializing in mood disorders who is also a mother herself presents a mindfulness training program developed at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute. Clinical studies showed that this program was effective in helping new mothers parent their children and manage changes in mood, stress levels, and behavior.
Parents of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) face many unique daily challenges. Kids with ADHD are often inattentive, hyperactive, and impulsive—and as a result, parents can become frustrated or stressed out. In Mindful Parenting for ADHD, a pediatrician presents a proven-effective program for helping both parents and kids with ADHD stay calm in the present moment. Parents will also learn how to let go of judgments, reasonably assess their child's strengths and weaknesses, lower stress levels for both themselves and their child, communicate effectively, and cultivate balance and harmony at home and at school.
In this breakthrough professional guide, a psychologist, social worker, and yoga instructor team up to offer training in mindful yoga-based acceptance and commitment therapy (MYACT): an innovative, research-based program that integrates the ancient wisdom of yoga with evidence-based ACT. Using this holistic therapy, clinicians and yoga instructors alike will discover ways to guide clients toward emotional balance and wellness at all levels—physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual—with the perspective that healing psychological suffering requires treating both the body and mind.
The articles in Mindfulness and Acceptance for Addictive Behaviors introduce the latest research on using acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and other mindfulness and acceptance approaches for the treatment of a variety of addictions, including substance abuse, gambling addiction, pornography addiction, smoking, and bingeing. This book features articles by Linda Dimeff, Jennifer Sayrs, Kelly Wilson, Jonathan Bricker, and other leading researchers in this field.
In Mindfulness and Acceptance for Counseling College Students, clinical researcher Jacqueline Pistorello explores how mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) are being utilized by college counseling centers around the world to treat student mental health problems like severe depression, substance abuse, and eating disorders. This book offers easy-to-use applications for college counselors and therapists, and includes a website link for downloadable worksheets for students, a sample podcast, and interactive web-based materials.
As more clinicians train in mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies, the demand for skills specifically for treating diverse clients grows. In this much-needed edited volume—with chapters on stigma, shame, relationships, and parenting—clinicians will discover evidence-based and best-practice behavioral, mindfulness, and acceptance-based strategies for treating gender and sexual minorities for better outcomes.
Disordered eating, obesity, and body image issues have reached epidemic proportions. While traditional treatments may be effective for some people with eating disorders, research shows that many continue to suffer significant symptoms even after treatment. This evidence-based professional resource offers treatments using acceptance and mindfulness—empowering clinicians with proven-effective interventions for better treatment outcomes for clients with eating disorders and weight issues.
In Mindfulness and Acceptance in Behavioral Medicine, Lance McCracken collects articles that apply acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and other mindfulness-based approaches to behavioral medicine, adapting these methods for use in specialty care clinics. The book includes articles by JoAnne Dahl, Tobias Lundgren, and other leading ACT professionals.
Mindfulness and Acceptance in Multicultural Competency explores the nuances of applying acceptance and mindfulness therapy to clients from diverse cultural and ethnic groups. This book addresses the question of whether acceptance and mindfulness treatments such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) can be applied equally to different cultures, what kind of adjustments are necessary when applying these techniques, and discusses how values are often culturally biased and individualistic.
Both social work and psychology stress the importance of understanding and addressing the contextual forces which contribute to human problems. Now, in Mindfulness and Acceptance in Social Work, a clinical social worker brings together the top voices in social work and mindfulness-based treatments in one volume. The book offers social workers an introduction to evidence-based mindfulness concepts and discusses how they can be applied to their profession. It also includes brief interventions that can bring mindfulness and acceptance into daily practice.
Children are experiencing anxiety more than ever before. In TheMindfulness Workbook for Anxious Kids, two child psychologists offer fun and effective mindfulness and emotion regulation activities to help kids cope with anxiety, panic, stress, fear, and worry. Using the skills outlined in this workbook, young readers will learn ways to stay calm and balance their emotions—whether they’re at school, with friends, or at home.
In Mindfulness for Bipolar Disorder, psychiatrist and neuroscientist William R. Marchand provides a breakthrough program based in cutting-edge neuroscience and mindfulness practices to target bipolar symptoms. Along with healthy lifestyle changes, therapy, and medication, Marchand shows how mindfulness is the missing piece in successful bipolar treatment. Using the mindfulness skills outlined in the book, readers will learn how to work through feelings of depression, anxiety, and stress in order to improve their quality of life and find their true center.
Written by Blaise Aguirre—a prominent psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD)—Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder offers a new, mindfulness-based approach to emotion regulation and the common symptoms associated with BPD. The mindfulness treatments outlined in this book are based on the author's highly successful program at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, and are drawn from dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), a proven-effective treatment for BPD.
Break the cycle of anxious thinking and rumination that are at the root of insomnia. In this much-needed guide, a trained mindfulness expert teams up with a behavioral sleep specialist to present evidence-based meditations in an innovative four-week protocol clinically demonstrated to address the emotional stresses and anxieties that lie at the root of sleep issues. Following this guide, readers will learn to unwind their mind, relax their body, feel less tense, and finally get the sleep they need.
For kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), everyday tasks and activities such as homework, making friends, and following rules feel overwhelming. Written by a psychologist specializing in ADHD, Mindfulness for Kids with ADHD offers fun and accessible mindfulness exercises designed to help kids with ADHD successfully navigate all areas of life.
For most people, grief resolves on its own, given time; but for others, grief can lead to serious psychological problems, such as depression, anxiety, anger, and an intense, inconsolable yearning for a deceased loved one. In Mindfulness for Prolonged Grief, psychologist Sameet Kumar shows readers how to overcome symptoms of prolonged and complicated grief using mindfulness meditation and mindfulness-based practices. This book invites readers to think of grief not as an obstacle, but as a powerful vehicle for growth.
Stay in the moment, stay in the game! The pressure to perform well—both on the field and in the classroom—can leave many teen athletes feeling completely stressed out. This unique workbook offers practical and tactical ways to help readers cope with anxiety in the moment, prevent stress in the future, improve athletic performance, and reignite their passion for the game.
Being a teen in today’s world is hard, and often teens struggle with feelings of anger toward themselves, their parents, and their friends. Using proven effective mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), Mindfulness for Teen Anger teaches teens the difference between healthy and unhealthy forms of anger. Inside, teens will learn to make better choices, stop overreacting, find emotional balance, and be more aware of their thoughts and feelings in the moment. By cultivating compassion and understanding for themselves and others, teens will be able to transform fear and anger into confidence and kindness.
It’s hard enough being a teen without having to worry about panic attacks, chronic worry, and feelings of isolation. In Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety, a psychologist offers teen readers proven-effective, mindfulness-based practices to help them cope with their anxiety, identify common triggers (such as dating or school performance), learn valuable time-management skills, and feel calm at home, at school, and with friends.
It’s hard enough being a teen without having to worry about panic attacks, chronic worry, and feelings of isolation. In Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety, a psychologist offers teen readers proven-effective, mindfulness-based practices to help them cope with their anxiety, identify common triggers (such as dating or school performance), learn valuable time-management skills, and feel calm at home, at school, and with friends.
Depression can make it hard for teens to do well in school, make friends, and reach their goals. In Mindfulness for Teen Depression, two teen experts offer powerful tools based in mindfulness and positive psychology to empower young readers who suffer from depression. The depathologizing approach in this book will help teens ease symptoms, work through troubling thoughts and feelings, and thrive in all aspects of life.
For many teens, chronic worrying can get in the way of school, friends, and reaching important goals. In Mindfulness for Teen Worry, a clinical psychologist offers quick, easy-to-learn mindfulness exercises teens can use anytime, anywhere to stop worries from growing and taking over. Worry cannot exist when one truly lives in the moment. This book teaches powerful mindfulness skills to help teens manage the four most common worry struggles: school pressure, friendship and relationship problems, body image, and family conflicts.
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can affect teens in many ways—from poor performance in school to difficulties with family and friends. In Mindfulness for Teenswith ADHD, a clinical social worker offers a skills based approach using mindfulness and neuroscience to help teens with ADHD successfully navigate all the areas of their life—whether that includes making good choices, completing tasks, increasing academic success, excelling in sports, driving safely, getting enough sleep, managing stress, or more.
In Mindfulness for Two, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) cofounder Kelly Wilson shows clinicians how to connect with the present moment in therapy and provides exercises they can use to teach their clients this critical skill. A web link included with this book provides exclusive footage of Wilson demonstrating these techniques in therapy sessions.
Mindfulness meditation can help both therapists and clients stay in the present moment and make the most of treatment sessions. This comprehensive training manual presents the mindfulness pyramid model: a practical, multi-dimensional, and graphic model for implementing mindfulness in psychotherapy. Using the new approach outlined in this book, therapists will be able to employ the healing power of mindfulness for better treatment outcomes.
In Mindfulness to Go, teacher and author David Harp presents the multitaskerís guide to mindfulness. The mindfulness exercises in this book can be easily built into daily activities to help readers attain a meditative presence amid the chaos of everyday life.
Edited by two leading mental health professionals, Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Positive Psychology is the first book to successfully integrate key elements of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and positive psychology to promote healthy functioning in clients. By gaining an understanding of "the seven foundations of well-being," professionals will walk away with concrete, modernized strategies to use in clinical or private practice. A must-have read for any mental health professional interested in synthesizing ACT and positive psychology to help clients realize their full human potential.
In this much-needed book, psychologist Jason M. Stewart offers clinicians a unique, groundbreaking perspective on client treatment that fuses psychodynamic psychotherapy, mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches, and Buddhist psychology. Using the insights in this powerful resource, clinicians will help clients gain greater psychological flexibility, connect with their values and goals, and create a life that is purposeful, meaningful, and vital.
In Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery, two leading researchers on mindfulness programs for cancer patients present an eight-week program for coping with the symptoms of chemotherapy, radiation, and other cancer treatments by reducing stress and anxiety through meditation, mindfulness, and gentle yoga. The program is based in mindfulness-based cancer recovery (MBCR), a modified program of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR).
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a powerful and proven-effective treatment for depression and other mental health issues. This groundbreaking professional book provides everything clinicians need to deliver MBCT—including tips for engaging in contemplative dialogues and embodied practice; mindfulness training; strategies for delivering MBCT in group therapy; and scripts, audio, and practice guidelines for clinicians and clients.
In Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Treating Anxious Children, two mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) researchers and practitioners present a powerful therapy plan that therapists can use in group or individual therapy to help children cope with anxiety.
In Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Treating Anxious Children, two mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) researchers and practitioners present a powerful therapy plan that therapists can use in group or individual therapy to help children cope with anxiety.
Mindfulness-Based Sobriety presents a breakthrough, integrative approach to addiction recovery for clinicians who treat clients recovering from substance abuse and addiction. The book combines relapse prevention therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and motivational interviewing to help clients conquer substance abuse by identifying their own values, strengthening their motivation, and tackling other mental health problems that may lie at the root of their addiction. The book also puts a strong emphasis on relapse prevention, so that clinicians can help clients stay on the path to sobriety.
Mode Deactivation Therapy for Aggression and Oppositional Behavior in Adolescents is a professional treatment manual for mental health professionals working with angry, aggressive, and oppositional adolescents and young adults.
Treating children and adolescents with depression is challenging, but the rewards are without measure. For mental health professionals looking to make an important impact in a child’s life, two clinical psychologists offer a user-friendly, step-by-step transdiagnostic approach for effectively treating children with depression using modular cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Modular CBT is well-documented for its flexibility and individualization. This book offers a road map to anyone looking to treat depression in children.
In More Vegetables, Please!, groundbreaking doctor and best-selling author Elson Haas teams up with a natural chef to show readers how to add vegetables, a rich source of fiber and micronutrients, to the family's favorite meals. The book includes more than 100 recipes and also offers tips on how to make vegetables taste good.
This workbook is designed to help children who struggle with feelings of sadness or depression. Based on cognitive behavioral therapy, the most effective treatment for depression, these simple, effective activities help kids cope with sad feelings, reach out to others, and develop a positive self-image. My Feeling Better Workbook can be used to support individual or group counseling.
My Lifebook Journal is a workbook foster parents can use to help foster children build self-esteem, deal with feelings of sadness and anger, and thrive within their foster homes.
In My Mother, My Mirror, an experienced psychotherapist explores how mothers unwittingly pass on their self-esteem and body image issues to their daughters and shows readers how they can break the cycle. This book encourages the reader to understand and forgive her mother and build both a stronger sense of self and a stronger relationship with her mother.
For some people with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), medication may not be the right answer, and for others, medication alone may not be enough. Natural Relief for Adult ADHD offers an accessible, research-based guide on the most effective non-medication treatments for ADHD. Whether it is used alongside traditional treatment or on its own, the book provides readers with sound, complementary strategies to increase their focus, get organized, and stay motivated.
Anxiety expert Ed Bourne addresses the many physical problems exacerbated by anxiety, such as food allergies and hypoglycemia, providing numerous complementary and nonpharmaceutical strategies (meditation, yoga, massage, acupuncture, and homeopathy) for overcoming the debilitating effects of anxiety.
Freedom from addiction is available in the one place that’s the most difficult for an addict to be—the present moment. In Natural Rest for Addiction, non-duality teacher and addiction specialist Scott Kiloby offers his program for finding recovery from substance abuse—and addictions of all kinds—through the mindful practice of Resting Presence.
Needing constant reassurance is a hidden struggle for many who fear the unknown. In this guide, readers will find evidence-based skills grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help them tolerate uncertainty, face specific worrying scenarios, and gradually reduce the compulsion to incessantly seek reassurance.
Edited by esteemed development expert and behaviorist Sidney Bijou, this book presents a variety of current work in the area of behavior analysis of human development.
Why do some women date, or even marry, narcissistic men—over and over? For the first time, a clinical psychologist and expert in narcissism offers a step-by-step guide to help women break the cycle of seeking out narcissistic men. Using skills based in cognitive behavioral and schema therapy, readers will gain an understanding of why they are attracted to narcissistic men, how they can avoid being drawn in by a narcissist’s initial charm and magnetism, and how to heal so they can finally move on to healthy relationships.
Non-Duality Questions, Non-Duality Answers is an organic, interactive exploration of non-duality—the understanding that in life there is no separation, only seamless Oneness. Designed to answer questions as they arise, this book invites readers to participate in the argument for non-separation, inquire about the nature of the self and the experience of liberation, and understand how non-dual awareness can impact our lives. With a unique blend of patience, compassion, respect, provocation, and humor, author Richard Sylvester helps frustrated spiritual seekers gain clarity on what non-duality is—and what it isn’t.
This fifteenth anniversary edition of David Wilkinson's bloody and gripping first novel, Not Between Brothers, spans a crucial period of American westward expansion into the Lone Star State. The book vividly captures the risks involved in staking claim to a frontier already owned by another people and the forces that helped transform Texas from a depository for undesirables into the most fiercely contested territory of its time.
Nothing to Grasp invites readers to explore their experience in the here and now, wake up from commonplace misconceptions, and see through the imaginary separate self at the root of human suffering and confusion. This book points relentlessly to what is most obvious and impossible to avoid—the ever-present, ever-changing, nonconceptual actuality of the present moment, which is effortlessly presenting itself right now—and encourages readers to celebrate life, exactly the way it is.
OCD: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed is a comprehensive, compact guide for the person who has been recently diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorde (OCD). The book offers guidance for coping with emotions related to the diagnosis itself, informing others of the diagnosis, and seeking effective treatment and support.
With this dazzling collection of essays, the founders of the expanding Science and Nonduality (SAND) conference bring together a wide array of visionary spiritual leaders, psychologists, philosophers, scientists, teachers, authors, and healers to celebrate and explore what it means to be human.
The human mind is a powerful thing. But the mind can also act as a filter that keeps us from experiencing the present moment in all its richness. In Oneness, author John Greven invites readers to give up the search for “enlightenment” and takes a concise, non-dualistic look at the world as it really is, right now, without the mind’s own reflections obscuring its multifaceted mystery.
Freedom is not some special state, condition, idea, or concept to be believed in. It’s the realization of our true, essential nature, and an ordinary part of our everyday lives—we just need to access it. In this important book, ordained Buddhist monk Jon Bernie helps readers meet this challenge. He emphasizes the importance of allowing what arises as our path unfolds, rather than reacting with resistance. Reading Ordinary Freedom is like having a wise and loving but uncompromising friend on the path to discovering our true nature.
Between social media, texting, video streaming, and online shopping, many people struggle with "smartphone syndrome," and are looking to find balance in our screen-obsessed world. This is a refreshingly honest how-to guide that teaches readers how to use technology in better ways to boost happiness and improve connections and communication on- and offline.
Hormone scientist Kathryn Simpson presents Overcoming Adrenal Fatigue, a step-by-step plan designed specifically for those suffering from adrenal imbalance. With this valuable resource, readers will learn to assess their symptoms and create a personalized plan for restoring adrenal function, balancing cortisol levels, and improving their quality of life.
In Overcoming Bipolar Disorder, a prestigious team of researchers and experts on bipolar disorder presents this research-based program for helping people with bipolar disorder manage symptoms, explore triggers and coping responses, and develop a comprehensive plan for living a full life based on core values and goals.
Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRB), such as hair pulling and skin picking, are greatly misunderstood, and few resources are available to those afflicted. In this much-needed self-help resource, three renowned BFRB experts and clinicians offer the first comprehensive treatment approach grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help readers overcome BFRB for good.
An OCD specialist offers the first CBT book to specifically address compulsive checkers, helping to elminate or reduce obsessions of performing actions incorrectly, misspeaking, misswriting, or facing criticism or punishment for being at fault for fires, break-ins, flooding, or injury to others. Readers will be able to begin training their brains to stop obsessing by learning to embrace their fears and experiment with exposure to their fears. The final chapters deal with trouble shooting particularly difficult situations and educating family members in supporting and helping the person to overcome their OCD.
Three compulsive hoarding experts team up to provide the first research-based cognitive behavorial treatment plan to help compulsives learn to recognize the problem, understand the treatment options, and learn gentle techniques to free themselves from this life-threatening disorder.
In Overcoming Depersonalization Disorder, psychologist Fugen Neziroglu guides readers through the symptoms and signs of depersonalization disorder and offers acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) techniques for overcoming it.
A 10-session treatment for adults diagnosed with depression. Techniques include acceptance of loss, reestablishing goals, motivational skills, and management of thoughts, feelings and moods. Client manual available (DEPM).
A 10-session treatment for individual adults diagnosed with depression. Techniques include acceptance of loss, reestablishing goals, motivational skills and management of thoughts, feelings and moods. DEPP is the therapist manual.
This step-by-step workbook offers readers a radically new approach for overcoming depression that focuses on getting readers re-engaged with life and the world around them using 'behavior activation'--a fast-acting, effective, self-help therapy.
A client's guide to a therapist-administered 10-to-13-session treatment. Techniques include relaxation, realistic risk assessment, problem solving, worry exposure, and worry prevention.
People with harm OCD—a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)—suffer from violent, unwanted thoughts and a crippling fear of harming others. They may also resist seeking treatment for fear of being judged. In Overcoming Harm OCD, psychotherapist and OCD expert Jon Hershfield offers powerful cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness tools to help readers break the endless cycle of pain and self-doubt caused by their disorder, and overcome their most debilitating symptoms.
Written by two psychologists who specialize in treating anxiety, Overcoming Health Anxiety offers readers effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques for overcoming hypochondriasis and health-related fears.
Fourth in this successful series, this book provides individuals who suffer from repetitive, unwanted thoughts, images or impulses with information and skills they can use to reduce their distress over and preoccupation with these thoughts.
A 12 to 16 session treatment for individual adults experiencing agoraphobia & panic disorder. Treatment interventions includ psychoeducation, greathing retraining, cognitive restructuring, interoceptive exposure, in vivo exposure & relapse prevention.Zuercher-White is the author of END2 and AGOR.
A 12 to 16 session treatment for individual adults experiencing agoraphobia & panic disorder. Treatment interventions includ psychoeducation, greathing retraining, cognitive restructuring, interoceptive exposure, in vivo exposure & relapse prevention.Zuercher-White is the author of END2 and AGOR. APDM is the client manual.
Procrastinating is a habit that, if left unchecked, can hinder a teen’s success and follow them well into adulthood. With this book, procrastination expert Bill Knaus offers teens an evidence-based, step-by-step guide to overcoming procrastination. With simple and fun exercises based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills, teens will learn to organize their schedule, manage homework, overcome negative self-talk, and improve their self-esteem.
Client manual for ANGP. An 8-session treatment for individual adults with anger management problems. Interventions include stress innoculatio cognitive restructuring, relaxation & coping skills rehearsal.
An 8-session treatment for individual anger management problems. Interventions include stress innoculation, cognitive restructuring, relaxation, and coping skills rehearsal. Also available is the Client Manual ANGM.
Developed for clients who have a strong fear or avoidance of one particular object or situation. Describes a 10-session course of treatment, including relaxation techniques, anxiety & coping skills, systematic desensitization, in vivo exposure, cognitive restructuring & worry coping skills.
For clients who typically have a strong fear or avoidance of one particular object or situation. Describes a 10-session course of treatment, including relaxatio techniques, anxiety coping skills, systematic desensitization, in vivo exposure, cognitive restructuring, and worry coping skills.
In Overcoming Trauma and PTSD, the most effective skills from evidence-based therapies including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) are integrated into one approach for overcoming the effects of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.
People who experience unwanted, intrusive, or frightening thoughts often suffer shamefully and struggle silently for fear of what the thoughts might mean about them. In this powerful book, two anxiety disorder experts offer powerful and proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help readers get unstuck from disturbing thoughts, overcome intense shame, and reduce anxiety.
Here is a compelling assessment of the processes of organizational change from a general systems and behavioral scientific perspective, including a system of change that can be implemented to help organizations succeed.
Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions provides dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) strategies and skills to parents of children with explosive emotions. Readers learn to understand and accept their children's emotion dysregulation and learn skills for changing both their own behaviors and those of the child.
The author, a professional working with children with special needs and father of a child with sensory processing disorder, offers the first book to help parents integrate care for a child with sensory processing disorder with the needs of the family as a whole.
Parenting a Teen Girl offers parents effective tips and strategies for understanding the dramatic, confusing highs and lows of adolescence and improving communication with their teenage daughters. Drawn from positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and the author’s years of experience, the skills in this workbook will help parents guide their daughters past the challenges of adolescence and toward healthier and more productive behaviors.
Parents of teens with intense emotions are often unsure how to respond to their child in a compassionate, constructive way. In this important book, two renowned experts in teen mental health offer parents much-needed advice and skills for dealing with their teen’s out-of-control emotions using proven-effective dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). Parenting a teen is difficult enough, but parenting a teen with intense emotions is especially so. This book will give parents the tools they need to help their teen regulate their emotions, as well as skills for managing their own reactions.
It’s tough raising a teenager, but it’s especially difficult when a teen has trouble regulating their emotions and lashes out. This groundbreaking book gives parents the tools they need to stop unwittingly reinforcing their teen’s bad behavior, reduce family conflicts, and get teens on track with the things that really matter.
An adoption expert, therapist, and adoptive parent of seven older children provides a comprehensive guide to help readers overcome the unique challenges of parenting adopted older children, including bonding, culture shock, fetal alcohol syndrome, aggressive behaviors, loss, hyperactivity, and creating a sense of belonging.
In Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance, parents learn responsive parenting techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and other well-researched parent-child treatment programs. Children who suffer from separation anxiety, excessive worry, and other anxiety problems can benefit greatly from the simple ACT skills presented in this book.
In Parenting Your Child with ADHD, a psychologist specializing in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) offers a revolutionary new intervention for ADHD in children. His thirty years in private practice and research form the basis of a cutting-edge approach in which parents identify factors that contribute to the reinforcement of ADHD behaviors and learn to reinforce independent responsibility and empathy toward others instead.
Parenting Your Child Through the Challenges of Autism takes a revolutionary approach to helping parents find and implement the most effective and powerful treatments for children with autism, a condition that still baffles many mental health professionals. Autism expert M. Anjali Sastry and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) psychiatrist Blaise Aguirre offer practical tips and guidance parents can use to track the effects of treatment on their children and draw from their own observations to find the treatments that will get the best results.
Teens who are out-of-control may participate in a number of troubling behaviors, including drinking, taking drugs, skipping school, or even fighting. For parents who are at their wits end, a clinical psychologist and expert in treating children with behavior issues presents Parenting your Delinquent, Defiant, or Out-of-Control Teen. This book utilizes skills and exercises based in effective strategies such as functional family therapy, multidimensional treatment foster care and multisystemic therapy, to help parents whose teens are on the verge of getting (or have already gotten) in trouble in school or with the law.
In Parenting Your Stressed Child, pediatrician and Duke University integrative medicine expert Michelle Bailey shows parents how to provide their children with practical mindfulness-based life skills for keeping calm in stressful situations, including family conflicts, difficulties at school, problems with friends, divorce, and other life transitions.
This book integrates the spiritual practice of mindfulness with psychological techniques for changing negative thoughts and behaviors into a powerful and proven-effective program for coping with this serious and distressing condition.
For many perfectionists, depression can feel like a weakness or failure—so, they often hide it. Their perfectionism then fuels their depression further—and so the cycle continues. Perfectly Hidden Depression offers real tools to help readers with perfectionism finally break free from this vicious cycle, so they can develop self-compassion, begin healing, and start living happier, more authentic lives.
Step-by-step process of listening to your body, finding words and images to fit emerging feelings, and letting these messages lead to insights, decisions, & positive change.
Here is a collection of essays that explores the issue of prescription privileges for psychologists. Leaders in the field express views both for and against the extension of these rights to non-MDs.
Our self, aware presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room, it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite, and freedom at the heart of all experience…this is our ever-present nature under all circumstances.
All that is known is experiencing, and experiencing is not divided into one part (an inside self) that experiences and another part (an outside object, other, or world) that is experienced. Experiencing is seamless and intimate, made of “knowing” or awareness alone. This intimacy, in which there is no room for selves, objects, or others, is love itself. It lies at the heart of all experience, completely available under all circumstances.
In Present Perfect, psychologist Pavel Somov presents a mindfulness approach that people with perfectionism, obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), and related controlling tendencies can use to overcome their fear of failure.
For people with bipolar disorder, the path to wellness often involves psychiatric visits and medication adjustments. But what if there was a way to avoid future episodes? In Preventing Bipolar Relapse, bipolar expert Ruth C. White shares her own personal approach to relapse prevention using the innovative program SNAP (Sleep, Nutrition, Activity, and People). White also offers practical tips and tracking tools readers can use anytime, anywhere. By making necessary lifestyle adjustments, readers can maintain balanced moods, recognize the warning signs of an oncoming episode, and make the necessary changes to reduce or prevent it.
Private Practice Made Simple is a complete practical guide to starting and maintaining a successful mental health therapy and coaching practice. Written in an entertaining, lighthearted style, this book covers everything from making the decision to open a private practice to preventing burnout once the practice begins to thrive.
Edited by Steven C. Hayes and Stefan G. Hofmann, and based on the new training standards developed by The Inter-Organizational Task Force on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology Doctoral Education, this groundbreaking resource is the first to present the core competencies of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in a way that honors the behavioral, cognitive, and acceptance and mindfulness wings of that tradition, and includes contributions from some of the luminaries in behavioral science today.
The Progressive Relaxation and Breathing audio CD, one of the five Relaxation and Stress Reduction Audio Series , CDs, presents listeners with a highly effective progressive relaxation technique developed by notable physician Edmund Jacobson. This method can be used to relax the major muscle groups and reduce anxiety.
Based on the work of Nobel Prize winning economist, Elinor Ostrom, Prosocial presents a groundbreaking and comprehensive program for designing effective and socially equitable groups of all sizes to create positive world change—from businesses and social justice groups to global organizations.
Research suggests that meeting behavior therapy needs along with medical care needs may result in an overall reduction in costs. This collection of essays explores the uses of behavioral therapy in the treatment of chronic conditions like diabetes, asthma, heart disease, and more.
Psychology Moment by Moment translates mindfulness research into practice by providing clinicians with an evidence-based framework for developing and implementing mindfulness-based interventions with their clients. Readers learn which mindfulness techniques work, the latest research in mindfulness, how to choose mindfulness techniques for particular clients, and how to assess client progress.
Most teens experience intense feelings, but many lack the skills needed to regulate their emotions in healthy ways. In this unique guided journal, best-selling author and teen expert Lisa Schab offers writing prompts and a creative space for teens to organize their thoughts, work through difficult experiences, balance their emotions, and break free from destructive rumination. This journal also includes powerful behavioral prompts to help teen readers put what they learn into action.
In this first-of-its-kind guided journal, best-selling author Lisa Schab offers a creative space for teens to work through their anxiety by providing fun, engaging, and action-oriented prompts and behavior-based exercises.
In Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep, two psychologists specializing in sleep and mood disorders show readers with insomnia and often comorbid disorders such as depression, anxiety, and chronic pain proven methods from cognitive behavioral therapy for getting the sleep they need and improving their symptoms in the process.
Not a mechanistic or reductionistic approach to verbal behavior, radical behaviorism is actually a sophisticated form of radical pragmatism-and Day did more than any other scholar apart from B.F. Skinner to define and promote this approach.
Radically open-dialectical behavior therapy (RO-DBT) is a breakthrough, transdiagnostic approach for helping clients with extremely difficult-to-treat overcontrol (OC) disorders such as anorexia nervosa, chronic depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Written by the founder of RO-DBT and never before published, this comprehensive volume outlines the core theories of RO-DBT, and provides a framework for implementing RO-DBT in individual therapy.
This new book from anger expert Potter-Efron offers powerful, emergency help to anyone whose extreme and volatile rages cause him or her to lose control of emotions, behaviors, and even conscious awareness-causing sometimes irreparable emotional and physical harm to themselves, their loved ones, and, occasionally, to innocent by-standers.
Behind every successful entrepreneur is a mom who helped nurture her child’s passion into a fulfilling and flourishing career. In this book, a political powerhouse and mother of two thriving entrepreneurs interviews the moms of over 50 of today’s most successful innovators and—based on her findings—provides 10 rules for raising confident, fearless, self-made individuals whose ideas and drive will change the world.
A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, mindfulness mentor, parenting coach, and mother of two Hunter Clarke-Fields offers parents practical and breakthrough strategies for conflict resolution and positive communication. Parents learn to break free from ingrained “reactive parenting” habits in order to forge better relationships with their children—relationships built on respect and cooperation.
How can parents prepare for and prevent their kids’ inevitable meltdowns? In Ready, Set, Breathe, a clinical social worker and mother of two shows parents how to improve both their child's and their own ability to focus, calm down, and deal with stress through everyday mindfulness games, activities, rituals, and habits. Designed for children ages 2–10 years old, this book is fun, engaging, and effective! This is a must-read for all parents.
Real Behavior Change in Primary Care offers primary care providers effective protocols for using acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with difficult and 'untreatable' patients to facilitate lasting behavior change.
Real Food All Year is a practical and important season-by-season guide to cooking techniques and recipes that allow readers to eat in harmony with nature. Using local, whole foods, readers learn to create delicious meals that can enhance their energy and well-being.
Divorce is rarely easy, often painful, and can even chip away at our sense of self. Rebuilding is the number one trusted resource on divorce recovery. In print for over thirty-five years, this classic self-help book is now available in an updated fourth edition, featuring a new introduction by coauthor Robert Alberti. Inside, readers will find time-tested tools to help “rebuild” their lives after divorce.
Drawing on the success of her popular self-help book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, author Lindsay Gibson offers yet another essential resource for adult children of emotionally immature parents. With this follow-up guide, readers will learn practical skills to recognize the signs of an emotionally immature parent, and powerful strategies for protecting themselves against emotional takeover. With this compassionate resource, readers will also discover how to reconnect with their own emotions and needs, and gain emotional autonomy in all their relationships.
In Reinventing the Meal, renowned psychologist Pavel Somov presents readers with a plan for mindfully reconnecting with the comforting rituals involved in preparing and enjoying food. This revolutionary way of eating offers readers daily opportunities for feeling more relaxed and connected with their bodies without extensive meditation practice. Chapter by chapter, this guide helps readers reinvent their relationship to food and eventually see each meditative mealtime as an opportunity to reconnect with the body, the mind, and the world at large.
Relationship Saboteurs presents a seven-step model for exploring and overcoming the twelve most common destructive relationship patterns and building a healthy, long-lasting partnership.
In Relationship Skills 101 for Teens, best-selling author of Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, Sheri Van Dijk offers teens powerful tools to regulate their emotions and create better relationships—whether it’s with parents, friends and peers, or dates. Using skills based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), teens will learn to take control of their emotions and reactions in order to respond effectively to peer pressure, bullying, and gossip, and navigate the myriad social issues that make these years so challenging.
Yoga is a powerful and proven-effective practice for managing pain and building physical and psychological resilience. In the Relax into Yoga for Pain Relief, readers will learn to relax their bodies with gentle poses and calm their minds using the ancient wisdom of yoga—bringing relief to both the physical and mental suffering caused by chronic pain.
Based on the pioneering Yoga for Seniors program offered at Duke Integrative Medicine and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, this book teaches seniors the twelve principles of practice—guiding them step-by-step, along with posture illustrations, on a six-week program for improved balance, flexibility, and overall well-being.
A rich and nuanced novel about coming of age on a North Carolina Indian reservation, Reservation Nation is a compelling and beautiful story from one of the South's most promising new talents.
Written by leaders of the Moderation Management movement, Responsible Drinking helps readers define the level of their alcohol use and decide whether moderation or abstinence is the best approach to recovery. Resources and personal stories are included that help readers determine if they are problem drinkers and what can be done about it. 30 worksheets are included.
In Rewire Your Anxious Brain, a clinical psychologist offers readers a unique, evidence-based solution to overcoming anxiety based in cutting-edge neuroscience and research. In the book, readers will learn how the amygdala and cortex (both important parts of the brain) are essential players in the neuropsychology of anxiety. Using the practical self-assessments and proven-effective techniques in the book, readers will learn to “rewire” the brain processes that lie at the root of their fears.
This important resource of information on rule-governed behavior is an invaluable tool for every behavioral psychologist as it includes discussions by major figures in the field.
Say Goodbye to Being Shy is a book for children who struggle with extreme to occasional shyness. Shyness is a barrier to social and academic development which can prevent children from reaching their greatest potential. Say Goodbye to Being Shy offers focused activities with clearly stated purposes designed to move children from feelings of shyness to developing competence and skill. Simple, fun activites to help kids: Accept themselves; Be assertive when necessary; Make new friends.
Say Goodbye to Being Shy is a book for children who struggle with extreme to occasional shyness. Shyness is a barrier to social and academic development which can prevent children from reaching their greatest potential. Say Goodbye to Being Shy offers focused activities with clearly stated purposes designed to move children from feelings of shyness to developing competence and skill. Simple, fun activites to help kids: Accept themselves; Be assertive when necessary; Make new friends.
Written by a psychologist who is a leader in pet bereavement, this practical and sympathetic guide validates the survivor's feelings of loss when a pet dies.
A collection of essay in support of wider and more streamlined use of research results and higher levels of scientific practice standards in clinical psychology.
The much-anticipated fourth edition of the best-selling classic by Matthew McKay, Self-Esteem is the go-to guide for those seeking to increase their sense of self-worth. This fully revised new edition features an innovative application of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to self-esteem and utilizes updated cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help readers create positive change and thrive.
How teens feel about themselves affects every aspect of their lives. Low self-esteem can cause teens to avoid certain situations, people, and feelings, and can make it harder to fit in with friends and peers or excel in school. In Self-Esteem for Teens, best-selling author Lisa Schab offers teen readers six core principles to build a healthy, positive view of themselves as they face all of the difficult challenges of the teen years.
The author prescribes an array of easy-to-learn techniques that turn stressed out moments into opportunities for relaxation. Readers learn how to stretch inconspicuously, breathe more deeply, enjoy lighthearted diversions, and develop calming attitudes--strategies that ultimately boost health and happiness.
Presenting 50 sex-talk techniques combined with explicit illustrative stories, the authors show readers how to determine what they want from sexual experiences and how best to communicate their desires.
The wisdom of the Mahavidyas, the ten wisdom goddesses who represent the interconnected darkness and light within all of us, has been steeped in esoteric and mystical descriptions that made them seem irrelevant to ordinary life. But with this book, written by a respected cardiologist who found herself on a spiritual search for the highest truth, readers are invited to explore this ancient knowledge of the divine feminine, learning how it can be applied to daily struggles and triumphs and how it can help them find unreserved self-love and acceptance.
Entering the world of dating can be intimidating—but for those suffering from shyness or social anxiety it is especially difficult. Single, Shy, and Looking for Love presents mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help shy singles explore what they want in a romantic partner, cope with the anxiety and fear that can arise on a date, and develop the skills needed to create a long-lasting, intimate relationship.
Written by spiritual medium Austyn Wells, this book shows readers how to tap into their soul’s wisdom, connect with the universe, and communicate with loved ones and guides in the spirit world. This is the first guide to offer practical tools for this soul-centered journey based in aspects of everyday life, such as relationships, self-care, and grief, while exploring spirit communication, hypnotherapy and regression, shamanism, energy exercises, and much more for living a spiritual life.
Religion lies at the heart of many clients' core values, and helps shape their perception of themselves and the world around them. In Spiritual and Religious Competencies in Clinical Practice, two clinical psychologists provide a much-needed, research-based road map to help professionals appropriately address their clients’ spiritual or religious beliefs in treatment sessions. This book is a must-read for any mental health professional.
Splitting is an essential legal and psychological guide for anyone divorcing a "persuasive blamer": someone who suffers from borderline personality disorder (BPD) or narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). This book is written by Bill Eddy, a family court attorney and therapist, and Randi Kreger, author of the bestselling Stop Walking on Eggshells and founder of the popular website www.bpdcentral.com.
Splitting is an essential legal and psychological guide for anyone divorcing a "persuasive blamer": someone who suffers from borderline personality disorder (BPD) or narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). This book is written by Bill Eddy, a family court attorney and therapist, and Randi Kreger, author of the bestselling Stop Walking on Eggshells and founder of the popular website www.bpdcentral.com.
Inspired by Sri Atmananda (Krishna Menon), Standing in Awareness guides readers along the Direct Path—a “pathless path”—one articulating that we are all loving, open, clear consciousness, along with everything else. Readers will be assured they are already where they need to be and are standing as awareness now. This revised edition includes new chapters on this non-dual inquiry, a selection of dialogs from a decade of “Nondual Dinner” gatherings, and several experiments that help establish everyday experiences as awareness.
Stricken with a deadly heart condition, fifty-three-year old Howard Stabb, a self-employed contractor with no health insurance, chooses to travel to India to receive the surgery that can save his life. This gripping page-turner, written by Stabb's partner and companion on this remarkable journey, tells the story of their experiences in the increasingly common world of medical tourism.
In Stop Overreacting, renowned therapist Judith Siegel helps readers cope with intense overwhelming and uncomfortable emotions without overreacting, withdrawing into depression or anxiety, lashing out, and/or raging.
Renowned anger expert Ron Potter-Efron makes anger control a manageable skill that anybody can learn. Through an engaging combination of incisive questions, realistic scenarios, and interactive strategies, his workbook helps people gain an awareness of angry thoughts, feelings, and actions.
This revised and updated edition of the best-selling Stop Walking on Eggshells helps the friends and family members of people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) understand the condition, help their loved ones find effective treatment, and stop feeling as though they are walking on eggshells to avoid confrontations with BPD sufferers.
This revised and updated edition of the best-selling Stop Walking on Eggshells helps the friends and family members of people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) understand the condition, help their loved ones find effective treatment, and stop feeling as though they are walking on eggshells to avoid confrontations with BPD sufferers.
This comprehensive workbook helps teens who self-injure explore the reasons behind their need to hurt themselves and sets forth positive ways to deal with the issues of stress and control. The activities in this workbook provide teens with safe, effective alternatives to self-injury and help them develop a plan to stay healthy.
The guided visualizations on the Stress Reduction CD in The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Audio Series can be used alone or in combination with the best-selling Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook. Listeners learn to replace stressful thoughts with feelings of calm through simple and powerful visualization exercises.
From the author of Contemplating Divorce comes Stronger Day by Day, a collection of quotes, insights, and opportunities for reflection people healing from divorce can turn to every day to help them through the process.
Young women with borderline personality disorder (BPD) struggle to balance intense emotions, leading to major problems in relationships, work, and all aspects of life. In this unique guide, influential BPD advocate, blogger, and social media maven Debbie Corso offers young women an easy-to-use primer on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), as well as powerful peer-to-peer support for managing BPD’s most disabling symptoms.
Sometimes everything sucks. For teens that struggle with negative thoughts and emotions, Stuff That Sucks offers a compassionate and validating guide to accepting emotions, rather than struggling against them. By helping teens identify their personal values and what really matters to them, this book will help them take steps towards living a more meaningful life.
The four beliefs that interfere with problem solving are a conviction of unworthiness; an assumption that change is risky; feeling incompetent; and a perception that other people are more important. This workbook offers specific strategies to help overcome these inhibiting beliefs and step-by-step instructions on assessing problems, brainstorming solutions, imagining consequences, and putting solutions into practice.
We’ve all felt inadequate, believing that we’re alone and broken or otherwise unworthy. But this doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Presenting four guiding principles and five core practices based in deep spiritual wisdom, clinical psychologist Gail Brenner shows readers who struggle with self‑defeating thoughts and feelings of inadequacy how to liberate themselves from the prison of false self‑beliefs holding them back.
Psychologist Janina Scarlet and Marvel and DC Comics illustrator Wellinton Alves join forces to offer teens Superhero Therapy—a dynamic, illustrated introduction to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). With this fun, outside-the-box self-help guide, teens will discover how to vanquish inner super villains such as anxiety, depression, anger, or shame; explore their unique superpowers; and become their own Superhero questing for what matters to them.
Those raised by a BPD parent endured a volatile and painful childhood. This book offers readers step-by-step guidance to understanding and overcoming the lasting effects of being raised by a person with this disorder. Readers discover coping strategies for dealing with low self-esteem, lack of trust, guilt, and hypersensitivity.
In this much-needed guide, popular blogger Ilana Jacqueline writes poignantly about her experience living with two debilitating, yet invisible autoimmune diseases, and offers sound advice and practical tips for living with a chronic illness or disability that others can’t see. Readers will learn to deal with doctors who don’t understand, are of little or no help, or outright dismiss their condition. They will also learn how to navigate friendships, family, relationships, work, and school; overcome body image and self-esteem issues; become their own best advocate; create a support system; and live an engaged and values-driven life.
The teen years are like an emotional roller coaster, and teens must learn the skills needed to effectively handle their emotions in a positive, constructive way. This is easy-to-read guide is written directly for teens experiencing strong emotions, and offers them four core skills based in dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) to help manage their emotional ups and downs. Using evidence-based techniques such as mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness, teens will be able to get off the emotional roller coaster for good.
A cancer diagnosis can be terrifying, and the first thing a patient wants to know is: How am I going to survive this? Written by a radiation oncologist and cancer researcher, Taking Charge of Cancer offers an insider’s guide to help readers understand cancer treatment options, choose the very best medical team, and be their own advocate. With this compassionate yet pragmatic guide, cancer patients will be better prepared to navigate the reality of their difficult diagnosis with knowledge and hope.
Six-step wellness program helps readers understand what TMJ is and provides exercises to improve jaw functioning, relieve pain and deal with trigger points, eliminate harmful habits, deal with contributing stress, and evaluate and improve your diet and exercise habits. Additional chapters cover the connection between TMJ, whiplash, & fibromyalgia. Describes the use of splints and other treatment options.
For women, sex has been hijacked. Today’s sexual climate leaves little to no space for honoring the complexities of sex—sex as pleasure, sex as connection, sex as creative expression, and sex as healing. In Taking Sexy Back, relationship expert Alexandra Solomon shows women that they are more than just sexy objects of someone else’s desire, and offers real tools to help women explore their own sexuality, communicate their needs, draw boundaries to be safe, and build the satisfying relationships they truly want.
Compiled from three years of exciting, inventive, and challenging discussion on the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) Listserv, this book offers readers a rare window through which they can observe the intellectual development of one of today;s most exciting developments in clinical psychology.
Communicating with a loved one who has borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be fraught with explosive emotions and intense conflict. In this compassionate guide, Jerold Kreisman—bestselling author of I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me—offers a powerful set of tools to help the loved ones of people with BPD express themselves, be heard, and have a productive conversation without playing the blame game.
This practical and accessible guide helps the friends and family of Alzheimer's patients communicate with their loved ones in ways that allow them to sustain meaningful and positive relationships.
A speech-language pathologist with over 25 years experience, provides the parents of children who are unable to articulate their words correctly with the information they need to reduce child and parent anxiety, improve their child's self-esteem, recognize problems with language skills, learn how speech sounds develop, what to expect in therapy, what may cause articulation problems, and over 50 games to help children play with sounds.
What if anxiety and worry are just tricks our mind plays on us? Drawing on the huge success of author David Carbonell’s The Worry Trick, this irreverent, on-the-go guide offers the ten most powerful strategies to put worry in its place—anytime, anywhere. With these easy-to-use tips and tools, readers will learn to outsmart the worry trick, and finally overcome the anxiety, fear, and panic that get in the way of living their best lives.
The ABCs of Human Behavior the first book to present modern behavioral psychology to practicing clinicians. The book focuses both on the classical principles of learning, as well as the more recent developments that help explain language and cognition.
Edited by clinical psychologists and popular ACT workshop leaders Kevin Polk and Benjamin Schoendorff, The ACT Matrix fuses the six core principles of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) into a simplified, easy-to-apply approach. This essential book shows professionals and general readers how this approach can be used to treat a variety of disorders—such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse, trauma, and eating disorders—in a variety of settings and contexts. Professionals will also learn how to work more effectively with difficult clients and increase clients' psychological flexibility. A must-have for ACT practitioners looking to streamline their therapeutic approach.
An important addition to any ACT professional’s library, The ACT Practitioner’s Guide to the Science ofCompassion explores the emotionally healing benefits of compassion-based practices when applied to traditional acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). This book offers case conceptualization, assessments, and direct clinical applications that integrate ACT, functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP), and the science of compassion to enhance therapists’ processes. The book also explores how these modalities work in harmony, ultimately making ACT more effective in increasing client psychological flexibility.
For people with addiction, seeking treatment is a powerful, positive step toward eventual recovery. But gaining an understanding of the root causes of addiction—such as feelings of helplessness or loss of control—is also crucial for recovery. In this book, addiction expert Suzette Glasner-Edwards offers evidence-based techniques fusing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based relapse prevention to help readers understand and conquer their addictive behaviors, once and for all.
This comprehensive workbook explains the facts about addiction & provides simple step-by-step directions for working through the stages of the quitting process. The authors help you prepare to quit & explain how to get help & support, use the new craving blocker drugs, relax without chemicals, control and express feelings, and prevent relapse.
In The ADHD Workbook for Kids, an internationally-recognized child psychologist presents more than forty ten-minute games and activities children with ADHD can do to learn to make friends, gain confidence, and manage out-of-control behaviors.
With activities that focus on developing emotional intelligence and strengths-based skills, The ADHD Workbook for Teens helps adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) feel empowered to improve attention, calm impulsiveness, and gain facility in organizing and finishing projects. This book is written by the author of The Gift of ADHD.
Many adopted teens eventually question why they were given up, and may grapple with feelings of isolation, abandonment, and broken trust. This workbook is designed to help these teens open the door to questioning about their birth family, explore painful feelings, and develop skills that will provide the strength, resilience, and confidence they need to thrive on the road to adulthood.
Written by two well-regarded experts in the field, The Anger Control Workbook introduces a new and radically simplified approach to anger control. Step-by-step exercises aid readers in identifying, understanding, responding to, and ultimately coping with their hostile feelings. 50 worksheets.
It’s hard being a teen in today’s world—and many teens struggle with anger as a result. But what if we could teach teens to interact with their anger in a positive way? Fully revised and updated based on reader feedback, this timely second edition of The Anger Workbook for Teens includes activities based in empirically supported treatments to promote psychological flexibility, giving teens the skills they need to understand and interact with their anger, rather than simply attempting to control it.
It’s hard being a teen in today’s world—and many teens struggle with anger as a result. But what if we could teach teens to interact with their anger in a positive way? Fully revised and updated based on reader feedback, this timely second edition of The Anger Workbook for Teens includes activities based in empirically supported treatments to promote psychological flexibility, giving teens the skills they need to understand and interact with their anger, rather than simply attempting to control it.
This self-help guide uses a variety of exercises and step-by-step techniques to help individuals with bordeline and addictive disorders come to terms with their destructive lifstyle and take steps to break out of its dysfunctional cycle of self-defeating thoughts and behavior.
In The Anorexia Recovery Skills Workbook, three psychologists and experts in eating disorders offer an integrated, comprehensive program for people with anorexia nervosa—whether they are currently in treatment or looking to maintain their recovery and prevent relapse. This workbook offers evidence-based skills to help readers rebuild healthy relationships, gain a sense of autonomy and independence, develop a sense of self-worth and self-esteem, set healthy goals, cope with negative emotions, and learn to communicate effectively.
Written by a leading researcher in acceptance and commitment theory, Georg Eifert, Ph.D., this book offers the most up-to-date and effective treatment for anorexia. Readers learn to view the use of eating control strategies as a problem, not a solution. They learn to better cope with out-of-control emotions and thoughts, and redirect the drive for thinless twoard healthier, valued life directions.
The Antianxiety Food Solution presents effective natural treatments and dietary changes that can significantly reduce anxiety symptoms and improve mood. Author Trudy Scott is a certified nutritionist who successfully treated her own anxiety and founder of www.everywomanover29.com.
A classic in its field, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook has provided an unparalleled, quintessential resource for people struggling with anxiety and phobias for almost thirty years. The fully revised sixth edition of this best seller offers powerful, step-by-step treatment strategies for panic disorders, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), worry, and fear. Readers will also find updated information compatible with the DSM-V, as well as updates on medications and treatment, nutrition, mindfulness training, exposure therapy, and the latest research in neurobiology.
For teens, feeling independent is critical for building self-confidence. But for anxious teens, fears, worries, and rumination can stand in the way of achieving the developmental milestones that lead to independence—such as socializing, dating, academic success, or taking on more mature responsibilities. Based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), The Anxious Teen Survival Guide is an engaging, illustrated resource to help teens skillfully work through situations that cause anxiety so they can focus on their goals. By identifying their "monkey mind"—the part of their brain where anxious thoughts arise—teens will start to feel more independent, more confident, and ready to take on the world.
Anxiety in children is on the rise, and recent research has uncovered a link between highly imaginative children and anxiety. Using engaging illustrations and fun activities based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help kids understand anxiety in relation to their vivid imaginations, this Instant Help workbook presents a unique approach to help children harness the power of their imaginations to reduce anxiety and build self-esteem.
About one in four teens suffers from mild to serious problems with anxiety, and many of them get little or no help. The Anxiety Workbook for Teens, written by an experienced therapist, gives teens a collection of tools to help control anxiety and face day-to-day challenges. This workbook both gives anxious teens insight into their problems and offers practical guidance for overcoming them.
About one in four teens suffers from mild to serious problems with anxiety, and many of them get little or no help. The Anxiety Workbook for Teens, written by an experienced therapist, gives teens a collection of tools to help control anxiety and face day-to-day challenges. This workbook both gives anxious teens insight into their problems and offers practical guidance for overcoming them.
People who suffer from unwanted intrusive thoughts often worry about what those thoughts mean—leading to an unfortunate cycle of shame, anxiety, and depression. In this important workbook, a renowned psychologist presents a targeted, transdiagnostic approach for moving past unwanted mental intrusions, and teaches readers how to change the destructive patterns responsible for the persistence of anxious and depressive thinking.
A researcher and psychologist specializing in eating problems and body-image issues, has developed this new, cognitively-based 8-week program to help binge eaters regain control of their body's eating patterns by tracking existing eating habits and slowly adjusting them until the binge eater is eating when hungry and stopping eating when full.
The Art and Science of Valuing in Psychotherapy shows therapists how to help their clients discover and commit to their core values, a key process in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The book also presents the theory and research behind valuing in psychotherapy.
In The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation, mindfulness teacher Richard Shankman gives readers a foundational guide to the art and skill of Buddhist meditation, showing them how to construct a daily practice that unifies two major Theravada Buddhist traditions—concentration meditation and insight meditation. This new, integrative, and simple approach will help readers manage stress, quiet their busy minds, and cultivate a lasting sense of well-being.
What happens when we find that everything we thought we knew about ourselves is untrue? In The Art of Finding Yourself, author Fiona Robertson—senior facilitator and trainer of the life-changing Living Inquiries method of self-inquiry and exploration—reflects on her own experience of discovering and living with this transformative process. The Living Inquiries, developed by foreword writer Scott Kiloby, invite us on an inner journey to examine and dispel the stories that make us believe we’re separate and inadequate. With this book, readers will learn how to deal with “the stuff of life” after that false sense of self and separation has slipped away.
From master Reiki teacher Lisa Campion comes The Art of Psychic Reiki, a one-of-a-kind, step-by-step guide for learning the sacred art of Reiki while cultivating the psychic and intuitive skills crucial to this healing energy work.
Teens and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often struggle to carry out important daily tasks that other people take for granted. Presented in an easy-to-follow format, The ASD Independence Workbook is designed to help readers with ASD gain practice with interactions they will inevitably encounter in everyday life—in school, on the job, and in their communities.
Many women find it difficult to stand up for themselves, but for women who are prone to anxiety and avoidance, it is especially difficult. Grounded in attachment theory, this is an essential guide to help women identify their thoughts and feelings, balance their emotions, communicate their needs, and set healthy boundaries to improve their lives.
This self-directed program teaches readers to speak up and say what they mean at work and at home. Written supportively, it uses proven cognitive behavioral techniques to help individuals build self-confidence, set boundaries, and determine appropriate responses. 10 charts.
Using the science that underlies more extreme approaches to 'attachment parenting,' The Attachment Connection helps parents sort out the facts from the fiction about parent-child attachment and shows how paying attention to the cognitive needs of a growing child can help him or her grow up healthy, secure, and confident.
Teens with autism are natural observers—able to study, imitate, and learn social behavior. The Autism Playbook for Teens is designed to empower these strengths with mindfulness strategies and scripts, while also helping teens reduce anxiety, manage emotions, be more aware in the present moment, and connect with others. This book offers a unique, strengths-based approach to help teens with autism and Asperger’s develop social skills , strengthen communication, and thrive.
In a world that favors the outgoing, gregarious extrovert, being an introvert can be difficult. But the truth is that introverts are powerful observers and creators. The Awakened Introvert shows readers how to tap into their introvert strengths and “awaken” their potential using mindfulness meditations and cognitive behavioral techniques. Introverts will also learn to minimize weaknesses—such as a tendency toward worry and rumination—and discover new skills for recharging in between social encounters.
In The Balanced Mom, a life coach and mother of three shows busy moms how to meet the challenges of motherhood without over-parenting and encourage independence in their children, while still making time to find balance and fulfillment.
Checking and rechecking ones appearance in the mirror may be more than mere vanity it could be a sign of Body Dysmorphic Disorder. This condition can lead to unnecessary plastic surgery, serious eating disorders, steroid abuse, even suicide. The BDD Workbook offers a proven intervention plan and personal stories, exercises, charts, and worksheets to help readers recognize distorted self-perception and develop a balanced self-image.
The use of metaphors is fundamental in the successful delivery of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), but for many ACT therapists, they often become over-used, stale, and less effective as time wears on. The Big Book of ACT Metaphors is an essential A-Z resource guide that includes new metaphors and experiential exercises to help promote client acceptance, defusion from troubling thoughts, and values-based action. The book also includes scripts tailored to different client populations. Whether treating a client with anxiety, depression, trauma, or an eating disorder, this book will provide mental health professionals with the skills needed to improve lives, one exercise at a time.
The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook offers a comprehensive recovery program for people with binge eating disorder and other overeating disorders. Readers will learn to use proven complementary and alternative medicine therapies to develop a healthy relationship to food and eating.
The Bipolar II Disorder Workbook is designed to help readers manage recurring depression, hypomania, and anxiety associated with bipolar II disorder. This user-friendly self-help workbook draws on evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and other mindfulness-based approaches to help those suffering from bipolar II disorder live more normal lives.
In The Bipolar Workbook for Teens, two therapists help teenage readers use dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to tap into their resources and develop new skills for managing their bipolar disorder, then use their newfound strengths to work towards living according to their goals and values. Readers learn to maintain interpersonal relationships and use crisis survival skills.
In this one-of-a-kind guide, dad, doula, and certified lactation counselor Brian Salmon and perinatal mental health and relationship expert Kirsten Brunner offer practical, modern-day survival tips for expectant dads and birth partners. Based on Salmon’s Rocking Dads childbirth course, this book provides everything dads need to know about supporting their partner through labor, birth, breastfeeding, and beyond.
The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma presents a comprehensive mind-body approach to healing trauma that invites readers to reconnect with their body’s innate capacity for healing, growth, vitality, and joy. Readers learn to move past their trauma toward posttraumatic growth, balance their emotions, and transform the dark side of trauma into body awareness and spiritual fulfillment.
Based on author Thomas Cash's clinically tested program, this major revision of The Body Image Workbook offers you who are concerned or distressed about their body image an eight-step program for transforming their relationships with their bodies.
The media is saturated with images of thin, beautiful women, and exposure to these images has given rise to a new generation of girls who feel an intense pressure to be “perfect.” The Body Image Workbook for Teens offers teen girls practical exercises and tips that address the most common factors that contribute to a negative body image, including: comparison, negative self-talk, unrealistic media images, societal and family pressures, perfectionism, and the fear of disappointing others.
The human mind is compelled to search for meaning. But when we let go of our notion of the self, we are often confronted with the emptiness of the world. In this poignant book, humanist psychologist Richard Sylvester provides readers with a unique dialogue regarding life’s most difficult question—Who are we?—and shows that even in emptiness, love and enlightenment are present.
This book offers a complete overview of borderline personality disorder (BPD), its symptoms and treatment, and ways BPD sufferers can navigate their lives with this complicated condition.
In The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook, a psychologist and expert in treating borderline personality disorder (BPD) offers an integrative approach to help readers manage symptoms, gain greater self-control, and build a more confident self, using dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and interpersonal therapy. This workbook meets the reader where they are in their therapeutic journey, and—rather than utilizing a one-size-fits-all method—provides insights and activities that address BPD as a collection of symptoms.
The Buddha and the Borderline is a riveting, first-person account of one woman's struggle with borderline personality disorder (BPD)-a diagnosis some have called a psychiatric death sentence-and her eventual triumph over her symptoms through dialectical behavior therapy and Buddhist spirituality.
In Buddha's Way of Happiness, mindfulness expert Thomas Bien invites us to view happiness as a state that is always available to us, provided we know how to move past the barriers that keep us feeling stressed and unhappy. Bien identifies the six most common obstacles that keep us from joyful living and shows how to change our perception of everyday experiences to allow for greater fulfillment.
The Bulimia Workbook for Teens teaches cognitive behavioral therapy skills that adolescents suffering from bulimia can use to change their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors for the better and end the destructive cycle of bingeing and purging.
The Bullying Workbook for Teens is the first practical, skills-based teen self-help workbook that addresses both bullying and cyberbullying, an unfortunately common concern for many of today’s teens. The book is designed to help teens learn anti-bullying strategies, build constructive communication skills to help them express their feelings and manage their emotions, and gain confidence in themselves and their interactions with others.
Written by a cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, and spiritual seeker, The Calling offers readers a twelve-week program to discover their “soul’s work” by showing them how to turn the scientific method of observation and experimentation inward on themselves. With the insights and strategies in this practical guide, readers will discover more fulfilling work, more authentic relationships, and a deeper sense of connection in life.
You are stronger than your anxiety! That’s the message best-selling authors Matthew McKay, Michelle Skeen, and Patrick Fanning tell readers in this evidence-based guide for moving past anxiety. Based in proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this practical workbook offers a breakthrough exposure-based approach to help readers understand and overcome fears and worries—rather than avoid them.
This evidence-based workbook offers real strategies based in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help readers overcome perfectionism and create a more balanced perspective. Readers will identify the causes of their perfectionism, discover how perfectionism is negatively impacting their lives, and gain invaluable skills for cultivating self-compassion toward themselves and others.
The Chemistry of Connection presents new evidence about the importance of the cuddle hormone (oxytocin) in human relationships and shows readers how they can harness its power to find love, bond with their mates, and build deeper connections with others.
Building on the success of The Chemistry of Joy, The Chemistry of Joy Workbook is a detailed, practical guide to improving readers’ symptoms of depression through resilience training.
This fully revised and updated edition of The Chemotherapy Survival Guide provides chemotherapy patients with everything they need to know about treatment, including what they can expect at each stage and what they can do to prevent or minimize side effects.
Help teens turn the volume down on chronic pain. In this much-needed addition to the popular Instant Help Books workbook series, pediatric pain specialist Rachel Zoffness offers evidence-based cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based strategies to help teens cope with chronic pain and illness. Teen readers will gain an understanding of how pain affects both the body and mind, and learn proven-effective strategies for taking control of their pain so they can get back to living their lives.
Based on the author’s Behavioral Assessment of Pain questionnaire—used by pain care clinics and professionals worldwide—this book offers a clinically proven management technique that addresses the physical, psychological, and social aspects of living with chronic pain.
The Clinician’s Guide to Exposure Therapies for Anxiety Spectrum Disorders is a much-needed, organized manual that offers therapists a detailed menu of exposure exercises for the treatment of the most common fears and phobias. It includes strategies for increasing clients’ willingness to participate in exposure therapy and incorporates the most effective therapy exercises from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and other modalities. Therapists can simply look up clients' symptoms to find the most effective exposure therapy treatment exercises for a client's particular anxiety issue.
Written by a team of experts in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this workbook offers powerful tools to help individuals with PTSD better understand and effectively manage their symptoms. The skills are drawn from a variety of empirically supported cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatments—including cognitive processing therapy (CPT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)—useful to a wide range of people, from individuals with severe PTSD to those struggling with just a few symptoms.
The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook for Personality Disorders helps readers learn and practice eight core skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to overcome the symptoms of a variety of personality disorders, including paranoid personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder.
In the second edition of this best-selling workbook, William J. Knaus offers a step-by-step program to help readers overcome anxiety and get back to living a rich and productive life. Readers will develop a personal plan using techniques from rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), powerful treatment methods proven to be even more effective than anxiety medication. This edition includes new evidence-based techniques such as behavioral activation and values-based action, addresses perfectionism and anxiety, and features updated, cutting-edge research.
This revised new edition of The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression draws on the most current evidence-based and empirically supported techniques from cognitive therapy and rational emotive behavior therapy for defeating the symptoms of depression.
In The Cognitive-Behavioral Workbook for Menopause, a notable team of psychology and women’s health experts presents a revolutionary cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) program for reducing the impact of hot flashes, mood swings, sexual problems, and sleep disruptions. This program may be used as an alternative or an adjunctive treatment to hormone replacement therapy.
In The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Weight Management, three eating disorder specialists show readers struggling with their weight how to use proven-effective cognitive behavioral strategies to manage emotional eating triggers, overcome body image issues, and make positive lifestyle changes.
The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Managing Your Anger is the first book to apply compassion-focused therapy (CFT) to help readers overcome anger management problems and develop new skills for coping with frustration and rage. A new therapeutic model, CFT helps reduce the feelings of defensiveness and pain at the root of angry outbursts.
The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Overcoming Anxiety is the first book to help readers use self-compassion to move beyond clinical and subclinical anxiety. This approach draws on compassion-focused therapy to help readers become more aware of their anxiety triggers, soothe experiences of fear, and develop greater kindness for themselves and others.
In The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Recovering from Trauma and PTSD, readers learn compassion-focused therapy strategies that can help them overcome symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and shame related to past traumatic experiences and foster a sense of calm and well-being.
Led by a counselor, brides share their feelings about such issues as being given away, wearing a veil, changing their name, and closing the hotel room door only to find themselves suddenly--married. The author unravels the psychology behind common difficulties and offers practical advice for handling the fears and doubts that so often run amok as wedding bells toll.
This book helps parents in the aftermath of divorce learn to sustain a healthy co-parenting relationship and offers specifics for solving day-to-day problems, disciplining, and handling conflict during transitional times and special events.
In The Courage Habit, certified life coach Kate Swoboda offers freedom from the outdated belief that one must be fearless in order to live courageously. Instead, she defines courage as a willingness to act on what we want in spite of our fears, and offers an evidence-based program to help readers conquer their inner critic, overcome worries, increase resilience, work toward their highest aspirations, and make courage a habit every day.
Psychotherapist Cynthia Wall shows readers how to rebuild damaged patterns of trust that have been affected by negative past experiences. The book teaches readers to use CBT to gain self-trust, develop strong instincts about who to trust, and cultivate strong relationships with others based on mutual trust, respect, and healthy curiosity.
In The Critical Partner, readers use a variety of assessments and checklists to assess the core "schemas," or entrenched patterns, that drive their partners' critical behavior. The book provides tools for identifying the schemas that attract readers into relationships with critical partners, and then clearly presents a variety of powerful schema therapy skills for reducing criticism, improving communication, and ending destructive relationship patterns.
Crystals have long been known for their beauty and mysterious qualities. Written by a leading authority on crystal healing, this brilliant guide goes beyond the basics of most reference books, and teaches readers everything they need to know about tapping into the truly transformative power of crystals for a more intentional, contemplative, spiritually fulfilling life.
A psychologist helps people with cyclothymia, a milder but still debilitating type of bipolar disorder. The book provides available treatment options to help sufferers cope with frequent mood swings, manage anxiety, stress and various triggers, and go on to build healthy relationships and lead a fulfilling life.
Based on the techniques in the best-selling book, The Daily Relaxer, this pair of audio CDs helps listeners relax and unwind throughout the day. Each of the CDs in, The Daily Relaxer Audio Companion features easy exercises to reduce tension and stress.
This hands-on manual makes it possible to reclaim the husband-wife relationship while surviving--and even improving--the frequently tumultuous relationship with a mother-in-law.
From best-selling author Mary Ellen Copeland comes the second edition of The Depression Workbook,which includes new, research-based self-help strategies for taking charge of depression and developing a wellness recovery action plan.
A moving collection of stories about art, friendship, motherhood, and music, The Descent of Music collects the best of Deborah Cummings poignant stories in one volume. In Mitral Valve, a mother and daughter find each other through a man who loved them both. In Marian Anderson, a disenchanted woman finds meaning in an old playbill. Cummings' quiet humor shines through Reunion, when the narrator tells a lost amour, I was in love with your motorcycle. I had to be if I wanted to get anywhere near you.
Deeply embedded in the practice of contemporary mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) are concepts drawn from the ancient wisdom of meditative traditions. By discovering and exploring the essential Buddhist teachings at the heart of MBSR—including the eightfold path and the four noble truths—readers will deepen their historical and spiritual understanding, and invigorate their practice of this powerful anti-stress program.
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Diary presents an overview of each of the four DBT skills-distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness-and includes a journal you can use each day to monitor your successes, chart your progress, and stay on track making productive changes in your life.
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbookbroke new ground in self-help resources when it was released more than ten years ago, offering readers unprecedented access to the core skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Now fully revised and updated, this second edition continues to offer straightforward, step-by-step exercises that will bring coreDBT skills to thousands who need it.
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbookbroke new ground in self-help resources when it was released more than ten years ago, offering readers unprecedented access to the core skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Now fully revised and updated, this second edition continues to offer straightforward, step-by-step exercises that will bring coreDBT skills to thousands who need it.
Anger is a natural, human emotion. But chronic anger can throw life out of balance and wreak havoc on relationships with family, friends, romantic partners, and work colleagues. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook forAnger offers powerful, proven-effective dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) skills to help readers understand and manage anger. With this workbook as their guide, readers will learn to move past anger and start living better lives.
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder provides readers with DBT skills such as mindfulness, emotion regulation, and radical acceptance to help them move away from the destructive behaviors that often accompany bipolar disorder.
In The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bulimia, two psychologists specializing in eating disorders and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) show readers how to regulate negative emotions and behaviors and overcome bulimia.
People suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may experience symptoms such as anxiety, fear, insomnia, flashbacks, anger, depression, and even addiction. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for PTSD offers pragmatic skills grounded in evidence-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help readers find lasting relief from trauma. The practical interventions in this workbook can be used on their own, or in conjunction with therapy.
Based on the best-selling self-help classic, The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, this powerful and portable card deck presents 52 core DBT skills for learning mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. With these cards, users will find practical ways to put these skills to work, every day.
Have you tried everything, but still can’t manage to lose weight and keep it off? The Diet Trap offers proven-effective weight-loss methods based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you change the way you think about food and develop mindful eating habits, so you can ditch the fad diets once and for all, and live a healthier, happier lifestyle.
The Direct Path offers readers the “missing manual” to understanding non-duality. Inside, author Greg Goode provides forty user-friendly experiments and investigations designed to help readers come to their own conclusions about the nature of the body, mind, and perception. Readers will be taken, step by step, from the simple discernment of a physical object through the collapse of the witness into pure consciousness, leaving no doubt they are one with all things, and leading to a sense of lightness, freedom, and joy.
Divorce often leads to unresolved feelings of anger, betrayal, and sadness. The Divorce Recovery Workbook offers a unique approach using mindfulness and positive psychology to help readers cope with these negative emotions so that they can rebuild their lives. With exercises and tips for managing a difficult co-parenting relationship and powerful practices based in self-compassion and forgiveness, readers will learn to heal, forgive, and form new, loving relationships.
Every child whose parents are going through a separation or divorce should have a copy of this workbook. The forty sensitively written activities in The Divorce Workbook for Children help kids adapt to family changes, deal with stress, keep from getting involved in parental arguments, cope with their feelings when a parent begins to date again, and more. For ages 6-12.
Written by therapist and ethicist Elliot Cohen, The Dutiful Worrier presents a comprehensive and compassionate four-step plan for overcoming guilt-driven worry, the mistaken belief that one has to worry in order to prevent catastrophe.
With this easy-to-use journal, the author of Eating Wisely for Hormonal Balance guides readers through the steps of keeping a food diary to lose weight, cleanse the body of toxins, and prevent or relieve symptoms rooted in unhealthy eating.
Even without the complication of sexual infidelity, affairs of the heart can damage the stability and intimacy of a relationship. In The Emotional Affair, noted psychologist Ronald Potter-Efron and Patricia Potter-Efron offer readers advice on recognizing, addressing, and preventing these common relationship crises.
When we constantly feel hungry and overeat, sometimes it’s not about the food. In this important book, a weight management expert presents the proven effective Anchor Weight Management System to help people finally end their struggles with emotional eating and weight gain. Readers will learn about the real needs that underlie their cravings, how to meet those needs in positive ways, how to be mindful of their body, and find the deep satisfaction many overeaters seek in food.
It’s a commonly heard phrase: Stop being so sensitive. These words can be frustrating to hear, and for emotionally sensitive people, they often have the opposite of the desired effect. In The Emotionally Sensitive Person, a psychologist provides proven-effective cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques to help people who struggle with intense emotions. Readers will learn powerful tools for staying in the present moment, identifying emotional triggers, developing a strong and healthy identity, and experiencing overwhelming or uncomfortable emotions without acting out in an unhealthy way.
The ACT Matrix revolutionized contextual behavioral science by fusing the six core principles of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) into a simplified, easy-to-apply approach. Now, the creators of this pioneering new model present The Essential Guide to the ACT Matrix—the first detailed, step-by-step guide to help professionals implement the ACT Matrix in clinical practice and improve clients’ psychological flexibility.
Disorganized, chronically late, forgetful, or impulsive—these are words commonly used to describe teens with executive functioning disorder (EFD), an attention disorder marked by an inability to stay on task. In this easy-to-use, practical workbook, a licensed school counselor provides teens suffering from EFD the skills needed to get organized, retain information, communicate effectively, and perform well in school and everyday life. From handling frustration to taking notes in class, this book will help teens with EFD hone the skills they need to succeed.
The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness helps you understand, identify, and assist family members or close loved ones who suffer from the early signs of mental illness. It offers nine fundamental techniques for recognizing, managing, and recovering from mental illness.
Written by two specialists and based on the latest research, this book teaches family members how to sustain their relationships during a loved one's recovery from addiction and offers families specific tasks for each stage of recovery, helpful progress charts, and practical exercises.
From reproductive rights and the wage gap to #MeToo and #TimesUp—gender inequality has permeated nearly every aspect of our culture. With this revolutionary feminist self-help guide, readers will find powerful tools they can use every day to combat the effects discrimination and gender inequality, improve self-confidence, build resilience, and actively resist the gendered messages they’ve internalized from living in an openly sexist, patriarchal society.
When it comes to addiction, abstinence isn’t always the right answer—and with food addiction, it’s impossible. For readers stuck in a cycle of binging, overeating, and restricting, physician Carolyn Coker Ross offers the proven-effective Anchor Program™. Using this step-by-step guide, readers will learn strategies to help curb cravings, end body dissatisfaction, manage stress and emotions without food, and get off the diet treadmill, once and for all.
From the renowned author of the best-selling Trigger Point Therapy Workbook comes this first-ever book of self-care techniques for frozen shoulder, a very common painful and mobility-restricting condition.
Transgender and gender-nonconforming children need validation and support on their journey toward self-discovery. In The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids, a clinical social worker specializing in gender-nonconforming youth offers fun, age-appropriate activities to help kids explore their identities and discover unique ways to navigate their gender expression at home, in school, and with friends.
In addition to the common difficulties teens face, such as body changes and peer pressure, transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) youth experience unique challenges with identity and interpersonal relationships. This is the first book written for TGNC youth that incorporates skills, exercises, and activities from evidence-based therapies—such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)—to help these teens address the broad range of challenges they may encounter related to gender identity and expression at home, in school, and with peers.
From the pioneering publisher that has placed millions of self-help books into the hands of anxiety sufferers, The Generalized Anxiety Disorder Workbook offers readers a powerful, comprehensive new approach to treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). In the book, three renowned anxiety experts provide highly effective exercises and practical strategies to help readers with GAD soothe their worries, fears, and panic.
In the second edition of The Gift of ADHD, Lara Honos-Webb offers strategies for shifting parents' understanding of their child's attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to focus on the positive traits of this diagnosis. The book also provides step-by-step cognitive behavioral exercises for helping children function effectively and improving the parent-child relationship.
From a best-selling author and ADD expert, The Gift of Adult ADD helps adults with ADD focus on the positive traits of this condition and offers effective strategies for managing some of the challenges that often come with the different set of perspectives that are shared by people with ADHD.
Addiction recovery doesn’t happen all at once—it’s something that must be worked for, every day. Written by two mindfulness and addiction experts, The Gift of Recovery offers quick, in-the-moment tips and tricks to help readers cope with daily stress and stay firmly on the path to wellness. With this gentle, easy-to-use guide, readers will learn how to navigate relationships, take time for self-care, and build a mindful, sustainable, and joyful recovery.
Gifted children are often seen as intellectually or academically blessed; however, being gifted can also create unique challenges. In this workbook, a therapist and parent of three gifted kids offers activities and strategies based in mindfulness and self-compassion to help children ages 7 to 12 embrace their uniqueness, navigate social relationships, boost self-confidence, reduce stress and overwhelm, and balance emotions.
In The Good News About the Bad News: Herpes, an internationally recognized expert on genital herpes offers honest, friendly, and up-to-date advice and support to the millions of people living with one of the most common viral STDs, herpes.
Gratitude isn’t just a virtue—it’s a gift we give to ourselves. Written by a spiritual teacher and brain tumor survivor, and filled with practices, meditations, and affirmations, The Gratitude Prescription teaches readers to find love, happiness, and peace of mind in any moment by opening themselves up to the truth that, whatever happens, life is a miracle.
The Gratitude Project explores gratitude’s deep roots in human psychology—how it evolved and how it affects our brain—as well as the transformative impact it has on creating a meaningful life and a better world. This book is the result of a multiyear collaboration between the Greater Good Science Center and Robert Emmons of the University of California, Davis, with essays based on new research and written by renowned positive psychologists and public figures.
In The Great Days, a fascinating tale of self-sacrifice, power, and false spirituality, cult leader Papa works his misguided followers into a frenzy as they make ready for the coming of a perfect new world in the harsh Southwestern desert.
Today’s teens face intense pressures—academically, socially, and personally. In order to succeed in today’s fast-paced world, teens require perseverance, tenacity, resilience, self-control, and the ability to fail well. Based in the latest psychology research, this is the first workbook written directly to teens to help them develop “grit,” a trait that embodies stamina, a growth mindset, and competence for success.
What makes a happy couple happy, and other couples, well, just plain unhappy? In The Happy Couple, prominent Los Angeles-based psychologist and radio talk show host Barton Goldsmith, PhD, offers simple, accessible tips and tools for developing and strengthening positive relationship habits such as gratitude, humor, togetherness, and honesty. In the book, Goldsmith shows readers how these simple habits will increase the likelihood of a relationship being happy, healthy, and long-lasting.
In The Healthy Gut Workbook, readers learn an integrative, evidence-based approach to treating a wide range of digestive disorders, including heartburn, reflux, ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, and diverticulosis.
In The Heart of ACT, renowned acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer Robyn Walser explores ACT as a process-based therapy incorporating intrapersonal and interpersonal processes, as well as the six core components of psychological flexibility to connect clinicians to the dynamic and relational implementation of ACT. Engaging clinical scenarios, therapeutic insights, and supervision dialogues are offered to help clinicians move beyond their conceptual understanding of ACT principles to master the nuances of the therapeutic relationship at the heart of ACT. Using the tips and strategies in this professional guide, clinicians will learn to develop a flexible, grounded, and client-centered practice.
In the midst of a disagreement, many couples may ask themselves, "What are we really fighting about?" As it turns out, breakups and divorce don’t happen because couples fight, they happen because of how couples fight. In this much-needed book, Judith and Bob Wright—two married counselors and coaches with over thirty years of experience helping couples learn how to fight well—present their tried-and-true methods for exploring the emotions that underlie many relationship fights. Readers will learn how to use disagreements as an opportunity to deepen their understanding of their partner, bring more intimacy to the relationship, strengthen their bond, and learn from the conflicts and tensions that occur in all relationships.
Heartfulness is an ideal, a spiritual way of living by and from the heart that is inclusive of all ideologies, beliefs, and religions. In this heart-centered book, a student in conversation with his teacher, Kamlesh D. Patel—affectionately known as Daaji, the fourth and current spiritual guide of the century-old Heartfulness tradition—present a unique and powerful method of meditation that allows readers to have an immediate, tangible spiritual experience, irrespective of their faith. The guiding principle of The Heartfulness Way—“Experience is greater than knowledge.”
Clinical psychologist E. Alessandra Strada presents The Helping Professional’s Guide to End-of-Life Care, a complete manual designed to help chaplains, nurses, physicians, hospice workers, psychotherapists, palliative care specialists, and psychologists address the psychological needs of terminally ill and dying patients and their families.
Almost everyone has a bad habit—or two, or three. But some bad habits, such as habitual drinking, emotional overeating, self-criticism, chronic worrying, or even spending too much time in front of the TV can take a toll on our health and happiness. The Here-and-Now Habit provides powerful practices based in mindfulness and neuroscience to help readers rewire their brain and finally break the bad habits that are holding them back from fully experiencing life.
This is the first book to use dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help high-conflict couples regulate out-of-control emotions, tolerate distressing situations, and resolve problems—an approach proven to help even the most highly reactive couples build healthy relationships.
In The High-Conflict Custody Battle, a team of legal and psychology experts present a practical guidebook for people going through a high-conflict custody battle. Readers dealing with overtly hostile, inflammatory, deceitful, or manipulative ex-spouses will learn how to find an attorney and prepare for a custody evaluation. The book also provides helpful tips to defend against false accusations, and gives a realistic portrayal of what to expect during the legal process.
Ted Zeff, a psychologist who specializes in treating highly sensitive people, provides the first, easy-to-use survival guide offering immediate, practical, day-to-day coping skills for highly sensitive people. The book offers strategies for dealing with sensory and emotional overload, communicating effectively with nonHSP partners, developing ways to block stress triggers at work, and much more.
Although the idea that women become raving lunatics when their hormones fluctuate is firmly entrenched in American culture, a thorough examination of the evidence overwhelmingly tells us otherwise. This provocative book exposes the pervasive myths about women’s hormones—which lead to false beliefs about women’s competence—by illustrating how flawed, obsolete research and sexism have combined to keep women “in their place,” and skillfully shows how women can reject the “hormone myth” and own their emotions in a healthy and realistic way.
Research suggests that untreated mental health problems can lead to greater utilization of general medical services by patients over time. This volume presents a number of essays discussing the phenomenon of medical cost offsetting and it's potential for changing our healthcare system for the better.
An infertility specialist offers practical strategies for dealing with the relentless series of emotional, medical, social, economic, and marital challenges that an infertility diagnosis can produce. Readers learn how to cope with emotional stress, understand confusing treatment options, and make informed and satisfying decisions-while still maintaining their sanity, dignity, and relationships.
The Infertility Workbook presents a breakthrough mind-body program for helping couples with infertility issues improve their chances of conception. Readers learn stress reduction skills and techniques that research has shown improve fertility rates.
Written by the best-selling author and cocreator of the powerful Inner Bonding® self-healing process, this workbook shows readers how to take responsibility for their own happiness, love themselves unconditionally, and access their own spiritual guidance. With this guide, readers will discover a life-changing six-step process to connect with the divine, tap into a higher source of love and truth, and realize a deeper sense of freedom and personal power.
In The Insomnia Workbook, readers struggling with insomnia learn treatment techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help them fall asleep, be more productive during waking hours, and improve their overall health.
Based on the most current sleep science and evidence-based cognitive and behavioral interventions, The Insomnia Workbook for Teens helps teens change their sleep habits so that they can feel more alert and ready to face life’s challenges.
Written by psychologist and bestselling author Matthew McKay, The Interpersonal Problems Workbookcombines research and evidence-based techniques for strengthening relationships in all areas in life—whether it’s at home, at work, with a significant other, a parent, or a child. The skills in this workbook are based in both schema therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and are designed to help readers connect and communicate effectively with those around them.
The leading expert in interpersonal approaches to depression offers readers practical steps for improving social skills, overcoming interpersonal dependency, and confronting interpersonal inhibitions that make a person more vulnerable to depression.
A nationally recognized authority on this often misdiagnosed disease explains the latest treatments, helps readers make informed decisions, and shows them what they can do manage and reduce symptoms.
Do you overeat during times of stress? Do you often find yourself eating when you’re not even hungry? The Intuitive Eating Workbook offers a new way of looking at food. Based on the best-selling book, Intuitive Eating, this comprehensive workbook addresses the ten principles of intuitive eating, and provides an evidence-based model to help readers develop a healthy relationship with food, pay attention to cues of hunger and satisfaction, and cultivate a profound connection with both mind and body.
A new, non-diet approach to help teens adopt healthy eating habits. Building on the success of the evidence-based guide, Intuitive Eating, this workbook for teens addresses the ten principles of intuitive eating to help young readers develop a healthy relationship to food. Using this breakthrough workbook, teens will learn to notice and respect their natural hunger and fullness cues, find real eating satisfaction, promote body positivity, and cultivate a profound connection to their mind and body for years to come.
In The iRest Program for Healing PTSD, clinical psychologist and yogic scholar Richard C. Miller—named one of the top twenty-five yoga teachers by Yoga Journal—offers an innovative and proven-effective ten-step yoga program for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The deep relaxation meditations in this book will help readers overcome the common symptoms of PTSD, such as anxiety, insomnia, and depression, and maintain emotional stability so that they can return to living a full, meaningful life.
Could jealousy actually be a positive thing? In this groundbreaking book, Robert L. Leahy—author of the hugely popular self-help guide, The Worry Cure—invites readers to gain a greater understanding of their jealous feelings, keep jealousy from hijacking their thoughts and behaviors, reclaim a sense of sanity and trust, and ultimately build healthy relationships.
Award-winning motivational speaker and workshop leader Donald Altman presents The Joy Compass, a pocket guide to using the events of our daily lives to awaken gratitude, contentment, calm, and well-being in every moment.
In The Joy of Parenting, two acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) experts provide parents with the tools they need to cope with disruptive and oppositional behavior, acknowledge that they don't have to be perfect, learn to recognize normal childhood transitions, and alleviate their own anxieties to become more responsive, flexible, effective, and compassionate parents.
Isn’t it time for a kindness revolution? Kindness has the exponential power to renew relationships and transform how we think, feel, and behave in the world. In The Kindness Cure, psychologist Tara Cousineau draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to show how compassion and empathy are hardwired into our DNA and essential to our survival. Readers will also learn how simple practices of kindness—for oneself, for others, and for the world—can dissolve feelings of fear or indifference, and set the stage for profound happiness.
The breakthrough book Learning to Breathe presents a research-based curriculum for teachers and clinicians who are seeking ways to help improve behavior and bolster academic performance in adolescents. Drawing on a combination of mindfulness-based therapies, the brief interventions outlined in the book have a strong theoretical basis in both education and psychology, and are proven effective when it comes to dealing with adolescent students who act out in the classroom.
The breakthrough book Learning to Breathe presents a research-based curriculum for teachers and clinicians who are seeking ways to help improve behavior and bolster academic performance in adolescents. Drawing on a combination of mindfulness-based therapies, the brief interventions outlined in the book have a strong theoretical basis in both education and psychology, and are proven effective when it comes to dealing with adolescent students who act out in the classroom.
It’s not you—it’s just the way you’re wired. That’s the message psychologist Amy Johnson tells readers with bad habits in her unique guide, The Little Book of Big Change. Drawing on a powerful combination of neuroscience and spirituality, this book shows readers that they are not their habits. Rather, their habits and addictions are the result of simple brain wiring that is easily reversed. By learning to stop bad habits at the source, readers will take charge of their habits and addictions—once and for all.
The Lotus Effect offers readers a variety of Buddhist meditative techniques, both ancient and modern, for shedding the worry, rumination, obsessive thinking, and overthinking that causes suffering and prevents people from fully absorbing positive situations and experiences.
Mooji is among the most beloved and well-known Advaita masters living today. And with this unique book of prayers and blessings, he provides wisdom for both readers drawn to sincere introspection and self-inquiry, and those with a deep affinity for the power of prayer. Using devotional language familiar to many spiritual traditions, including Christianity and Sufism, this beautiful, gift-sized prayer book features Mooji’s own drawings and handwritten sayings, and may be read start to finish or opened at any page for insight into the moment.
Eminent chiropractor and developer of the Matrix Repatterning Program for pain relief, shows readers simple yet effective techniques to chekc the body for stress and tensions that may be causing pain. He then illustrates how to relieve the pain through a program of low-impact movement.
This workbook shows readers how to rewire the mental habits that interfere with memory functioning and offers practical solutions based on the latest scientific research. Through innovative techniques, exercises, games, and puzzles, readers learn how to maximize the receptiveness of their senses, focus on what is important and block out what isn't, rehearse and imprint information, and use visual imagery to retain experiences. The latest scientific findings on memory provide a wealth of information on medications, memory disorders, and resources for additional help.
This book teaches you proven communication skills that can improve your intimate relationshiops, resolve family conflicts, and make you more effective and successful at work. The workbook provides worksheets, fill-in exercises, and is based on the step-by-step skills and information provided in Messages: The Communication Skills Book, now in second edition and has sold over 67,000 copies.
In The Migraine Miracle, a neurologist with a personal history of migraines offers readers the revolutionary dietary cure that has worked for him and continues to work for his patients: a diet low in wheat, sugar, and processed foods, and high in organic, protein-rich animal products. The book also explores the link between inflammation, diet, and migraines, and contains a 21-day meal plan to help readers change the way they eat. By following this easy plan, millions of sufferers will discover a life free from symptoms—once and for all.
In this book, a specialist in mild cognitive impairments offers people who have suffered from a mild traumatic brain injury, the only workbook on the market that will allow them to overcome their emotional pain, and regain their mental capabilities.
The Mindful and Effective Employeepresents a powerful three-session acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) program for reducing workplace stress and increasing employee effectiveness. Psychologists and human resource professionals will use this program to conduct employee training in workplace settings.
In The Mindful Couple two leading experts in ACT, as well as couples counseling, show individuals how easy-to-use techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-such as compassion and values-based behavior change-can bring vitality to intimate relationships.
In The Mindful Path Through Shyness, a licensed psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of stress-related conditions helps readers cultivate mindfulness to move past shyness and gain social confidence.
People who worry and ruminate put excessive focus on the past and the future, a tendency which, left unchecked, can lead to mental health problems such as depression and generalized anxiety disorder. The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination offers proven strategies to help readers find contentment in the present moment.
Being a teen is stressful. Whether it’s school, friends, or dating, the teen years are full of difficult changes—both mentally and physically. The Mindful Teen offers teens a unique mindfulness program based in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) designed especially for teens to help manage stress, navigate volatile emotions, and improve communication skills. Teens will also learn simple, practical, and easy-to-remember tips they can use every day to reduce reactivity and handle stressful situations effectively.
Stress is a modern-day epidemic, and with the tumult of busy schedules and major life changes that young adults experience, they’re particularly vulnerable to its negative effects. In The Mindful Twenty-Something, the founder of the extremely popular Koru Mindfulness program developed at Duke University presents a unique, evidence-based approach to help twenty-somethings reduce stress and make important life decisions with respect to school, relationships, sex, career, and more—with clarity and confidence.
In The Mindful Woman, best-selling author and psychotherapist Sue Patton Thoele shows the woman who does too much how practicing mindfulness, cultivating calm, and restoring balance can increase feelings of well-being, hopefulness, and happiness-and happier, calmer women can be more successful and productive.
The first edition of the award-winning The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety introduced countless readers to the concept of mindfulness, and has successfully helped many people manage worry, fear, and panic so they can live a better life. This fully revised and updated second edition of the best-selling and innovative workbook offers readers compelling new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) exercises to help them finally conquer their anxiety.
Written by an eating disorder specialist and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) experts, The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Bulimia offers readers a plan for overcoming bulimia and negative body image through ACT.
What if depression could lead to positive change? Written by acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) cofounder Kirk Strosahl and Patricia Robinson, this fully revised and updated edition of best-selling classic, The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression includes updated exercises based in breakthrough research on self-compassion, mindfulness, and neuroscience to help readers work through their depression—rather than avoid it—and go on to create a more meaningful life.
Two leading social anxiety researchers present The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness, an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)-based workbook filled with assessments and exercises designed to help those with social anxiety or shyness.
Stress is a part of life—but it doesn’t have to take over your life. This evidence-based workbook offers readers a powerful ten-week program for stress management drawing on the latest research in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and mindfulness. Using the strategies outlined in this guide, readers will learn skills to promote a healthy acceptance of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, cultivate self-compassion, develop positive physical and emotional habits, build resilience, discover their deepest values, and live a more vital life.
Teens often try to avoid the things that make them anxious; but avoidance can actually make anxiety worse, and get in the way of reaching goals and living full lives. Written by three experts in teen mental health, this powerful workbook offers proven-effective activities grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help teens cope with anxiety, build resilience, discover what really matters to them, and lead fuller, more flexible lives.
Millions of Americans suffer from emotion regulation disorders, such as borderline personality disorder (BPD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and severe depression. Developed by foreword writer Marsha Linehan, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a clinically proven, evidence-based treatment for intense emotions. This is the first consumer-friendly book to offer Linehan’s new mindfulness skills to help readers move past harmful emotions and experience self-acceptance.
In The Mindfulness Solution to Pain, pain specialist and mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher Jackie Gardner-Nix offers techniques proven to reduce chronic pain and suffering using mindfulness meditation exercises based on the pioneering work of Jon Kabat-Zinn.
One must embody mindfulness in order to teach it well. As mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) grow in popularity, teachers need tools for effective teaching. The Mindfulness Teaching Guide offers a thorough and practical guide for mindfulness teachers and professionals, offering a systematic approach to developing the teaching methods, skills, and competencies needed to become a proficient mindfulness teacher.
The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction offers a mindfulness-based program for treating addiction created by a psychologist who works for the Department of Veterans Affairs and a marriage and family therapist who works for Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital. This unique approach addresses the grief and loss that are often at the root of addiction.
Combining mindfulness practices with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD offers practical and accessible tools for managing the unwanted thoughts and compulsive urges that are associated with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). With this workbook, readers will develop present-moment awareness, learn to challenge their own distorted thinking, and stop treating thoughts as threats and feelings as facts.
Combining mindfulness practices with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD offers practical and accessible tools for managing the unwanted thoughts and compulsive urges that are associated with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). With this workbook, readers will develop present-moment awareness, learn to challenge their own distorted thinking, and stop treating thoughts as threats and feelings as facts.
Mindfulness creates space for teens to stop and reflect, before engaging in impulsive reactions such as self-harm. In The Self-Harm Workbook for Teens, mindfulness expert Gina Biegel offers teen readers powerful skills to help them identify negative, self-harming thoughts and manage these thoughts in healthy ways, instead of resorting to cutting and other dangerous behaviors.
What are you really hungry for? Is it food, happiness, or something else? In this unique book, mindfulness expert Lynn Rossy offers an original whole-body approach to help readers discover the real reasons why they are overeating. Readers will learn how to slow down, savor each bite, and actually eat less using the author’s innovative and proven effective mindfulness-based intuitive eating program, Eat for Life. By following the easy-to-use strategies in this book, readers will lose weight, feel better, and truly enjoy their food—one mindful taste at a time.
Mindfulness-Based Emotional Balance offers a breakthrough, eight-week program using mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) to help readers manage overwhelming emotions before they take a toll on health and relationships. Instead of suppressing emotions—which can lead to a host of health problems—or overreacting in the heat of the moment, readers will learn how to achieve true, lasting emotional balance using this powerful, evidence-based therapy.
In Washington, DC, the Dalai Lama met with Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living, Richard Davidson, and other leading meditation researchers to explore the intersection between ancient meditation techniques and modern neuroscience. The result is a fascinating and revealing conversation about the potential of the human mind to heal itself through mindfulness meditation, transcribed and presented to the public for the first time in The Mindís Own Physician.
In Washington, DC, the Dalai Lama met with Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living, Richard Davidson, and other leading meditation researchers to explore the intersection between ancient meditation techniques and modern neuroscience. The result is a fascinating and revealing conversation about the potential of the human mind to heal itself through mindfulness meditation, transcribed and presented to the public for the first time in The Mindís Own Physician.
The cofounders of the Mitral Valve Prolapse Society team up with a cardiologist to help readers who suffer from this chronic and incurable illness manage symptoms and maintain healthy and stable lives.
A team of doctors and psychologists from The Western Multiple Sclerosis Center, the largest MS rehabilitation center in the country, offer this first of its kind New Harbinger workbook to teach people with MS real strategies they can employ in every part of their lives; from managing medical and psychological symptoms to improving their sex lives, to budgeting their finances, and exploring employment opportunities.
Based on breakthrough results from the newest scientifically proven research, The Multifidus Back Pain Solution offers back pain sufferers a series of simple exercises that target the exact muscles that have been newly identified to be the source of back pain. Illustrations accompany each exercise so readers quickly learn how to overcome their pain.
The author of Eat Naked, Margaret Floyd, and Wholesome2go founder, chef James Barry, team up to offer recipes that make it easy for readers to Cook Naked—that is, cook “naked” foods free of the pesticides, processing, and additives so common in the average diet. Each delicious, kitchen-tested recipe in this cookbook maximizes the nutritional value and flavors of fresh, whole foods.
The Nature of Consciousness challenges the prevailing materialist paradigm that is holding humanity back, suggesting that consciousness is the fundamental reality of the apparent duality of mind and matter, and that overlooking or ignoring this reality is the root cause of the suffering that pervades and motivates most people’s lives, as well as the wider conflicts that exist between communities and nations. This comprehensive investigation will satisfy readers of all kinds, from the existentially minded to the rigorously scientific to the earnestly hopeful for peace.
In The Need to Please, a leading mindfulness expert and psychotherapist provides compassionate, mindfulness-based techniques that will help chronic people-pleasers address and overcome their fears of failure, inappropriate self-sacrificing, loss of personal identity, and voracious need of approval.
It’s time to redefine happiness. In this breakthrough workbook, readers will discover a more effective way to achieve satisfaction and fulfillment rooted in spiritual values and actions. Blending time-tested spiritual wisdom with evidence-based psychological practices, readers will learn how to experience happiness on their own terms—even when faced with life’s unavoidable obstacles and losses.
Imago therapist and author of Getting the Sex You Want, Tammy Nelson, presents The New Monogamy, a revolutionary approach to healing a relationship after infidelity. In The New Monogamy, couples rekindle their trust in each other, engage in Imago dialogues to clarify what both partners really want in a relationship, and make a full erotic recovery by redefining the monogamy contract for the future after the affair.
The No-Self Help Book is the first to take the “self” out of “self-help.” Written by a clinical psychologist and student of Eastern philosophy, this guide offers a radical solution to readers struggling with self-doubt, self-esteem, and self-defeating thoughts: get over your self—it’s time for “no-self help”! With forty bite-sized chapters full of clever and inspiring insights, this book will help readers break free of their own self-limiting beliefs, so they can realize a more expansive sense of being and discover the unlimited potential of who they really are.
For decades, behavioral scientists have investigated the role our environment plays in shaping who we are. Based on groundbreaking studies, this book offers a fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary ways it’s changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase people’s well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices.
For decades, behavioral scientists have investigated the role our environment plays in shaping who we are. Based on groundbreaking studies, this book offers a fascinating look at the evolution of behavioral science, the revolutionary ways it’s changing the way we live, and how nurturing environments can increase people’s well-being in virtually every aspect of our society, from early childhood education to corporate practices.
The OCD Workbook, Third Edition offers the latest findings on the causes and most effective treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It includes helpful information on medications and shows readers how they can calm their impulses through techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) may suffer from obsessive thinking, use rituals to soothe their anxiety, and act compulsively in ways that are disruptive and sometimes harmful. As parents know all too well, OCD can greatly interfere with school, friends, and home life. In this important and much-needed Instant Help workbook, kids will learn to identify obsessions and compulsions, understand them, and use simple tools based in exposure and response prevention to cope with and overcome OCD.
Managing the Narcissist in Your Life is the first workbook to empower readers with practical solutions for dealing with self-absorbed and narcissistic individuals. It offers essential skills for managing narcissistic behavior in love relationships, the workplace, and in friend and family relationships.
Severe dieting often results in periods of reactive binge eating, this workbook contains proven-effective tools to help bulimics break the cycle of bingeing and reacting, allowing them to take control of their lives and make positive behavior changes.
Panic attacks can make teens feel like they’ve lost control, leading to more anxiety, stress, fear, and depression. In this workbook, three anxiety specialists teach teens how to identify anxiety-causing thoughts and behaviors, mindfully observe their panic attacks instead of struggling against them, and experience sensations associated with panic until they learn these sensations may be uncomfortable—but not dangerous. By learning how to observe their panic attacks, teens will gain a sense of control and learn to work through even the toughest moments of extreme anxiety.
Unhealthy perfectionism causes us to hold ourselves to impossibly high standards that can result in low self-esteem, severe anxiety, and self-destructive behavior—and in our high-pressure society, teens are especially vulnerable. With this workbook, based in proven-effective therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), teens will develop the self-compassion and mindfulness tools they need to counteract the dire effects of perfectionism and develop new, healthy skills for setting and achieving goals and boosting self-esteem.
Two medical experts specializing in endocrinology offer readers the only comprehensive workbook on personal hormone health; its personalized exercises help women assess their hormone-related health issues and plan for the most effective treatment for them.
Having a traumatic experience does not automatically mean someone will develop PTSD. In fact, many men and women—from veterans to victims of assault to those injured in accidents—have reported that, through their struggles with the effects of trauma, they now experience life differently and have found meaning in their traumatic life event. Written by two psychologists and experts on trauma psychology—including one of the key researchers on posttraumatic growth (PTG)—this unique, evidence-based, step-by-step workbook offers trauma survivors a new model for processing their traumatic experience in order to gain wisdom, strength, and resilience.
In The Post-Traumatic Insomnia Workbook, two therapists in the veterans health care system present research-based cognitive behavioral techniques for overcoming the sleep disorders that commonly develop after trauma.
Details the skills that happy couples use to deal with differences. Learn strategies for making decisions together recovering after upsets, & convrting difficulties into opportunities for growth. 304 pages.
This step-by-step guide is for couples who want to enhance their communication skills and maximize their relationshipís potential for mutual support and growth. Troubled spouses will discover how to hear without becoming defensive, clean up after verbal "toxic spills," and convert moments of anger into opportunities for growth.
By recognizing and accepting their childís feelings, parents can improve their childís emotional resilience. The Power of Validation is the first book to explain this critical process and offer parents skills they can use to validate and empower children in order to reduce behavioral problems, instill confidence, and increase childrenís ability to regulate their own emotions.
From the authors of the hugely popular self-help guide, Anger Management for Everyone, comes a comprehensive resource to help clinicians treat client anger. Using the authors’ innovative and modular SMART (Selection Menu for Anger Reduction Treatment) model for anger intervention, professionals will find motivational interviewing techniques and other effective tools for helping clients manage problem anger and live better lives.
Postpartum depression and anxiety are more common than many people know, and yet there are few resources available to new moms suffering from these conditions. The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook offers new moms powerful strategies grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help control worry, panic, and anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum.
For many people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), reliving the past through trauma-focused treatments can be too painful a place to start. They may be more likely to drop out of therapy and avoid seeking further treatment altogether. By shifting the focus from the patient’s trauma to what gives their life fulfillment, joy and value, The PTSD Behavioral Activation Workbook can help readers envision the kind of future they want to have, so they can move forward in their treatment to pursue that future.
Teens who’ve experienced trauma or suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often struggle to gain the confidence and resilience needed to move forward after their difficult experience. In The PTSD Survival Guide for Teens, trauma specialist Sheela Raja—along with her teen daughter Jaya Ashrafi—offers accessible skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help teens tackle anxiety and avoidance, manage negative emotions, cope with flashbacks and nightmares, and develop trusting, healthy relationships.
In the third edition of the best-selling The PTSD Workbook, psychologists and trauma experts Mary Beth Williams and Soili Poijula offer readers the most effective tools available for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this fully revised and updated workbook, readers will learn how to move past the trauma they have experienced; manage symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, and flashbacks; and find important updates reflecting the new DSM-V definition of PTSD.
In The PTSD Workbook for Teens, a trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) specialist offers worksheets and exercises to help teens recover from traumatic events and symptoms of PTSD, such as insomnia, flashbacks, hypervigilance, and depression. This workbook is based in evidence-based treatments for PTSD, including trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
Anxiety is an age-old problem. It exists in all cultures, and each has its own methods for treating it. For readers who suffer from anxiety but have found little relief from modern western treatments, the ancient practice of qigong—which can be understood as the cultivation of internal energy—may offer relief. In The Qigong Workbook for Anxiety, world-renowned and respected qigong master Kam Chuen Lam presents his first workbook for overcoming anxiety problems utilizing traditional Chinese energy-focusing exercises. By following these step-by-step exercises, readers will learn to transform feelings of anxiety into resilience and inner strength. The workbook also contains helpful illustrations.
From getting dressed in the morning, to making it to a job interview, to planning dinner—sometimes just getting through the day can be an ordeal for a woman with ADHD. The Queen of Distraction presents practical skills to help women with ADHD achieve focus and balance in all areas of life, whether it’s at home, at work, or in relationships. More than just a survival guide, this book will help women with ADHD thrive.
Resilience is a key ingredient for psychological health and wellness. Packed with evidence-based activities and exercises, The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook makes years of research on resilience accessible to queer and transgender adults. This book teaches readers to challenge internalized negative messages, handle stress, embrace who they are, remove obstacles from their life, and ultimately build a life that matters in a world still filled with micro-aggressions and discrimination.
Healing from the effects of racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help readers navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, develop racial consciousness and conscientiousness, and ultimately build a community of healing in a world still filled with microaggressions and discrimination.
Victims of rape often suffer from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. This handbook helps rape victims cope with the reality of the experience and deal with the aftermath of conflicting feelings. By learning to mentally reconstruct the assault, victims counter irrational beliefs, find inner reserves of strength, and regain personal power.
In The Reality Slap, Russ Harris uses engaging real-life stories and simple exercises drawn from the proven principles of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help readers who have been woken up by the “reality slap”—an unexpected personal crisis that results in hopelessness, confusion, or pain.
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook broke new ground when it was first published forty years ago, detailing easy, step-by-step techniques for calming the body and mind in an increasingly overstimulated world. Now in its seventh edition and with more than one million copies sold, this fully revised and updated workbook—highly regarded by therapists and their clients—remains the go-to resource for stress reduction strategies that can be incorporated into even the busiest lives.
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook broke new ground when it was first published forty years ago, detailing easy, step-by-step techniques for calming the body and mind in an increasingly overstimulated world. Now in its seventh edition and with more than one million copies sold, this fully revised and updated workbook—highly regarded by therapists and their clients—remains the go-to resource for stress reduction strategies that can be incorporated into even the busiest lives.
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids offers parents a variety of techniques they can use to help their children relax, unwind, and deal constructively with common stressors such as divorce, loss of a loved one, a family move, starting at a new school, and more.
Between school, friends, dating, the latest drama on social media, and planning for the future—today’s teens are totally stressed out. Based on the self-help classic, The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, this evidence-based guide will help teen readers identify the underlying causes of their stress, anxiety, and worry. Teens will also learn to develop a game plan for reducing stress so they can focus on reaching their goals.
More and more, studies show that resilience is the cornerstone of mental health and wellness. In The Resilience Workbook, Glenn Schiraldi, author of TheSelf-Esteem Workbook, helps readers foster the skills necessary to bounce back from setbacks big and small, and cultivate a growth mindset using positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and skills for regulating stress.
The teen years are a critical time for learning healthy coping strategies. In The Resilience Workbook for Teens, author, psychotherapist, and youth mentor Cheryl M. Bradshaw teaches young readers that the key to building resilience—the cornerstone of mental health and wellness—lies in their relationship with themselves. Through activities and interactive exercises, teens are invited to rewrite the negative stories they tell themselves, embrace who they are, and believe in their own power to bounce back from life’s biggest challenges.
Explores the reasons why victims of self inflicted violence hurt themselves. Shows readers how to overcome the psychological traps that lead to self inflicted violence.
The Self and Perspective-Taking is an edited professional book featuring articles by Steven Hayes and other leaders in psychotherapy. It presents the latest research findings and approaches to understanding how the human brain develops the concepts of self and other, how disruptions in this process can cause self-understanding deficits, and how these deficits can be overcome.
Teens are often their own worst critics. The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens offers valuable tools based in mindfulness and self-compassion to help teen readers overcome self-judgment and self-criticism, cultivate compassion toward themselves and others, and embrace who they really are.
Through a combination of exploratory self-help questions, comprehensive writing exercises, and short inspirational anecdotes, the author of the bestseller, Self-Esteem, provides a guided journal to help you learn to build a strong sense of self-worth.
Make self-esteem a habit, every day. That’s the message in this important guide for teens. Written by Lisa Schab, author of The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens, The Self-Esteem Habit for Teens offers 50 simple, positive thoughts and actions to help teens build self-esteem with daily intention. Teens will discover how to learn from mistakes, practice gratitude, see things from a different perspective, celebrate strengths, stop overgeneralizing, and cultivate healthy relationships.
This long-awaited, fully revised second edition of the best-selling The Self-Esteem Workbook includes new chapters on forgiveness, mindfulness, and cultivating lovingkindness and compassion. Readers will find highly effective exercises for building the healthy self-esteem they need to be their best and achieve their goals.
The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens provides practical advice and activities to help teens gain confidence, respond effectively to criticism, be assertive, and set and achieve goals. The book promotes acceptance, compassion, and validation as powerful confidence-building techniques, and contains 40 activities to help the reader make positive changes in his or her life.
One in three teen girls will experience sexual abuse before they turn eighteen, and this trauma can leave them feeling confused, angry, ashamed, and unable to move forward emotionally. In this important, much-needed workbook, a counselor and trauma specialist offers young women inspirational real-life stories from survivors and powerful, evidence-based tools to help them heal and reclaim their lives after experiencing sexual abuse or trauma.
The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook, Third Edition offers a comprehensive program to help shy or socially anxious readers confront their fears and become actively involved in their social world. This fully revised and updated third edition incorporates breakthrough research and techniques for overcoming social phobia, including a new chapter on mindfulness-based treatments, updated information on medications, and an overview of treatment-enhancing technological advances.
The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens offers worksheets and comic-style illustrated scenarios that help teen readers identify their values and practice evidence-based skills from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for overcoming shyness and social anxiety.
When beset with this little-known autoimmune disorder, the immune system of sufferers attacks their moisture-producing glands, resulting in dryness of the eyes, skin, vagina, and so forth. With this book, learn to recognize the symptoms, deal with the physical and psychological effects, and get the best treatment available from the medical establishment.
The Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training Manual offers a groundbreaking, transdiagnostic approach for clients with difficult-to-treat overcontrol (OC) disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, treatment-resistant depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Written by the founder of RO-DBT and published for the first time, this manual offers clinicians step-by-step guidance for implementing this evidence-based therapy in their practice.
The Smoke-Free Smoke Break is a groundbreaking approach to smoking cessation that helps readers learn to replace smoking with mindfulness, craving control, and cognitive restructuring techniques that help readers reduce tobacco use gradually, at their own pace. Because the ritual and habit of smoking can be as addictive as nicotine itself, this book allows readers to continue taking ìsmoke-free smoke breaksî using tobacco-free relaxation methods.
Social media has dramatically changed how teens communicate—in both positive and negative ways. Unfortunately, for many teens, social media can become addictive, stressful, and even alienating. Written by a millennial psychologist and media expert, this unique and timely workbook offers practical, evidence-based skills to help teens reduce social media-driven stress and anxiety, balance screen time, deal with cyberbullies, and take control of their lives.
This engaging workbook includes forty activities to help teens recognize and use their strengths to overcome social skills deficits related to Asperger's disorder or nonverbal learning disorder. Developed especially for teens, the activities in this workbook teach how to learn to read social cues, understand emotions, avoid meltdowns, and more.
This engaging workbook includes forty activities to help teens recognize and use their strengths to overcome social skills deficits related to Asperger's disorder or nonverbal learning disorder. Developed especially for teens, the activities in this workbook teach how to learn to read social cues, understand emotions, avoid meltdowns, and more.
Kreger draws on new research to provide advice for navigating life with someone who has borderline personality disorder. Step-by-step suggestions--many from users of the author's comprehensive Web site--help readers set and enforce personal limits, communicate clearly, cope with put-downs and rage, and make realistic decisions.
Find calm in the midst of everyday chaos. In this much-needed workbook, a psychologist offers readers essential skills for reducing stress in a busy, frazzled world. Using a unique strengths-based approach grounded in positive psychology, readers will find step-by-step strategies for identifying their key character strengths—such as perseverance, social intelligence, bravery, and more—and discover how these strengths can help them find peace of mind and start living the life they truly want.
Between school, friends, dating, and planning for the future, teens face more stress than any other age group. Written by a psychotherapist specializing in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and featuring brand new exercises, The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens, Second Edition shows overwhelmed and stressed-out teen readers how mindfulness skills can help them relax, prioritize, and keep calm during stressful times.
The Stress Response offers readers a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) approach to overcoming stress-related symptoms that decrease readers’ quality of life and lead to unhealthy avoidance behaviors. By learning the core DBT techniques: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness; readers can learn to process stress in healthy and productive ways.
Between school pressures, friends, dating, social media, and planning for the future—is it any wonder today’s teens are stressed out? In The Stress Survival Guide for Teens, clinical psychologist Jeffrey Bernstein offers practical and easy-to-learn tips based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and positive psychology to show teens how to keep stress and worry from taking over their life so they can overcome setbacks and set themselves up for success.
We can’t avoid the things that stress us out, but we can change how we respond to them. In this breakthrough book, a clinical psychologist and neuroscience expert offers an original and comprehensive approach to help readers harness the power of positive emotions and overcome stress for good. The unique mindfulness exercises in this book provide a recipe for resilience, empowering readers to master their emotional response to stress, overcome negative thinking, and create a more tolerant, stress-proof brain.
For people with borderline personality disorder (BPD), writing can be a profound vehicle for self-reflection and healing. In The Stronger Than BPD Journal, influential BPD blogger, advocate, and peer educator Debbie Corso and psychotherapist Kathryn C. Holt offer a guided journal based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help readers with BPD manage strong emotions, strengthen emotional resiliency, and build lasting relationships.
The Sum of My Parts is the incredible true story of Olga Trujillo, whose childhood was devastated by sexual abuse and violence. This memoir follows Olga as she splits herself into "parts" and develops dissociative identity disorder to cope with the abuse, and then struggles to merge these parts and overcome the disorder in adulthood.
Two psychologists who specialize in combining psychotherapy and Eastern spirituality to treat mental health problems present The Tao of Bipolar, a book of Taoist meditations that can help readers with bipolar disorder center themselves before bipolar episodes get out of hand, reduce the duration of the episodes, and balance their moods.
Even Zen masters aren’t immune to stress. Like most emotions, stress is a natural part of life, but there are ways to manage it and stay balanced. In The Tao of Stress, an expert in Taoist psychology presents daily meditative skills and movement exercises that can help readers simplify their lives, fight fatigue, and calm a busy mind. In addition, the meditation practices outlined in this book will show readers how being in harmony with the changes around them, rather than in conflict, can greatly reduce their stress. The book is simple, fun, and practical for everyday use.
Teen girls feel intense pressure to fit in and make friends. In this important guide, therapist and teen expert Lucie Hemmen offers ten tips to solve one of the biggest worries teen girls struggle with: social success. In the book, teen readers will find real strategies for growing a strong sense of self-knowledge and self-appreciation—two key building blocks for succeeding in the social world, and beyond.
This fun and engaging must-have workbook builds on the success of Think Confident, Be Confident for Teens to provide proven-effective activities and skills to empower teens to replace self-doubt with self-confidence so they can be their best. With easy exercises and tips, this book will help teens transform their negative self-image into a more positive, accurate, and realistic one, giving them everything they need for increased happiness and success!
The Thriving Adolescent offers teachers, counselors, and mental health professionals powerful techniques for working with adolescents. Based in proven-effective acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), the skills and tips outlined in this book will help adolescents and teens manage difficult emotions, connect with their values, achieve mindfulness and vitality, and develop positive relationships with friends and family. This is the first book to apply ACT to treating this population.
For the first time ever, The Transdiagnostic Road Map to Case Formulation and Treatment Planning offers the psychology community a breakthrough, proven-effective roadmap for treating patients with symptoms that span across different diagnostic categories. The transdiagnostic approach outlined in this book signals a revolutionary break away from traditional DSM categorization and gives mental health professionals a reliable resource for treating the underlying factors of a patient's condition, instead of relying on rigid pathology. For clinicians who are frustrated with single symptom protocols, this book offers a powerful alternative to the DSM-V.
The Transparency of Things calls us to look clearly at the nature of experience, without any attempt to change it. A series of contemplations leads readers gently but directly to see that our essential nature is neither a body nor a mind, but is the conscious Presence that is aware of this current experience. However, these contemplations go much further: as we stand as conscious Presence and reconsider the objects of the body, mind, and world, we find that they do not just appear to this Presence but within it—and further exploration reveals that they do not appear within this Presence but as this Presence. Finally, readers are led to see that our experience is and has only ever been one seamless totality, with no separate entities, objects, or parts to be found.
This new edition of the bestsellingTrigger Point Therapy Workbookoutlines user-friendly and updated methods of self-massage to help relieve pain. This edition also contains new techniques, drawings, and tips to help readers find and treat trigger points.
Just two simple, yet profound insights can make any intimate relationship not only stable and functional, but extraordinary: 1. Give permission for the other person to be who they truly are and 2. Take responsibility for your own reactions, behaviors, and expectations. In The Two Truths About Love, Jason Fischer reveals these insights and offers guidance for building a deeply accepting and fulfilling partnership.
In The Unbelievable Happiness of What Is, contemporary non-dual spiritual teacher Jon Bernie reveals how working through existing negative beliefs about ourselves and the world, as well as embracing our struggles, can set us on the path toward an awakened life. Using this compassionate and heart-centered approach to accepting our most difficult feelings, readers will learn to move through them and beyond, into absolute freedom, happiness, and peace.
Many of us carry an ingrained belief that we are somehow inadequate, separate, and alone, which can lead to a general dissatisfaction with life, conflicts with others, and an estrangement from ourselves that causes us to look outward for what we feel is lacking. When we look outside rather than looking within, it’s easy to confirm our false beliefs about ourselves. This book presents the Unfindable Inquiry, the central tool of the Living Inquiries approach to non-dual self-inquiry—a process author Scott Kiloby developed to help readers overcome their false sense of separation and the all-too-common, deep-seated belief that they’re not good enough.
Drawing on the wisdom of the life-changing New York Times bestseller, The Untethered Soul, these extraordinary cards feature 52 profound and uplifting quotes that will inspire readers to soar beyond their limitations, cultivate lasting peace and tranquility, and discover who they really are.
Drawing on the wisdom of the life-changing New York Times bestseller, The Untethered Soul, these extraordinary cards feature 52 profound and uplifting quotes that will inspire readers to soar beyond their limitations, cultivate lasting peace and tranquility, and discover who they really are.
Drawing on the wisdom of the life-changing New York Times bestseller, The Untethered Soul, these extraordinary cards feature 52 profound and uplifting quotes that will inspire readers to soar beyond their limitations, cultivate lasting peace and tranquility, and discover who they really are.
Depression can feel like a downward spiral, but it’s the little things that can add up to make a huge impact on recovery. In the breakthrough book, The Upward Spiral, neuroscientist Alex Korb demystifies the neurological processes in the brain that cause depression and offers readers small yet effective ways to ease their worst symptoms. Readers will discover there isn’t “one big solution” that will solve their depression. Instead, they will learn that there are dozens of tiny steps they can take every day to reshape their brain and create an upward spiral towards a happier, healthier life.
Positive life changes lead to positive brain changes! Drawing on the huge success of his groundbreaking book, The Upward Spiral, neuroscientist Alex Korb offers actionable, step-by-step skills in a workbook format to help readers with depression make small changes that add up to a successful recovery. With this accessible guide, readers will learn how dozens of tiny positive steps can reshape the brain and create an upward spiral towards a happier, healthier life.
Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and written by a clinical psychologist and popular blogger, The User's Guide to the Human Mind is a quirky and informative pocket guide to understanding and overriding our natural neuroses, psychoses, and other seldom useful, always tiresome antics of the human brain.
Vulvodynia's symptoms include burning, itching, stinging, rawness, and painful intercourse. This book will help readers identify triggers, modify their diets to reduce symptoms, find knowledgeable medical help, learn how to reduce debilitating pain, and renew their enjoyment of healthy sexual relations and normal daily activities.
Clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist Doreen Samelson presents The Weight Loss Surgery Workbook, a comprehensive workbook that guides readers through a clinically proven program for deciding on and preparing for weight loss surgery.
People with bipolar disorder are far more likely to die from obesity-related illnesses as a result of poor nutrition and poor lifestyle choices—but no one is talking about it. In this much-needed workbook, a leading Harvard Medical School researcher and bipolar expert presents a step-by-step, evidence-based behavioral lifestyle program to help people with bipolar disorder live healthy lives, regulate moods, and lose weight.
In this sequel to the instantly popular The Well-Ordered Home, readers will find fifty simple office organization tips guaranteed to reduce stress, improve time management, and transform their workspaces into oases of order and serenity.
In The Whole-Body Approach to Osteoporosis, nutrition and bone health expert Keith McCormick offers a holistic, ten-step approach to help readers increase bone density and bone flexibility, reduce the risk of fracture, and engage in more active and healthy lifestyles.
In The Whole-Body Workbook for Cancer, a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist helps readers with cancer detoxify their systems, identify proven cancer-fighting foods and supplements, and make lifestyle changes that will help them live longer, healthier lives while undergoing treatment for cancer.
The Whole-Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors presents an integrative whole-foods nutrition and lifestyle plan for enhancing immunity and preventing cancer reoccurrence. The program highlights the foods, supplements, and natural remedies that can help people keep cancer from coming back.
Created by holistic nutrition expert Laura Knoff, The Whole-Food Guide to Overcoming Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a healthy whole foods cookbook and nutrition guide to healing the uncomfortable symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
In The Wisdom to Know the Difference, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) cofounder Kelly Wilson and Troy DuFrene show readers how to use acceptance, mindfulness, and values-oriented strategies, either alone or in combination with a twelve-step program, to overcome substance abuse and permanently change their lives for the better.
Finally, the secrets of the elusive male mind are revealed. In this practical and humorous guide, psychologist Shawn Smith offers an inside look at that age-old conundrum—what is he thinking? Frustrated women will learn why men see the world the way they do, and will walk away with solid tips for cultivating understanding and communication in their relationships. This isn’t a book about how men should be more like women. This is a book about how men actually are, and how women can use this understanding to get the love and commitment they want.
In The Women's Guide to Complete Thyroid Health, readers explore their family health history, assess their symptoms, and, along with their healthcare providers, create a personalized testing and treatment plan designed to restore healthy, balanced thyroid output.
The Worrier's Guide to Overcoming Procrastination provides readers who suffer from anxiety-driven procrastination-and procrastination-driven anxiety-effective cognitive behavioral therapy strategies for reducing fear and taking action.
Grounded in the powerful new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this book will help you get relief from chronic worry and even generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) by learning to stop controlling your feelings and avoiding life and to start living it in a way that really matters to you.
Are you truly in danger or has your brain simply "tricked" you into thinking you are? In The Worry Trick, psychologist and anxiety expert David Carbonell shows how anxiety hijacks the brain, and offers effective techniques based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help readers break the cycle of worry—once and for all. Anxiety can often play subtle tricks to convince us of something that is not true. This book helps readers understand this so they can observe anxious feelings with distance and clarity.
For people with chronic worry, fear, and anxiety, there are many causes—but fear of uncertainty is one of the most common. Written by two psychologists and experts in anxiety, The Worry Workbook is the first of its kind to provide powerful, evidence-based tips and tools to help readers challenge their fears, build a tolerance for uncertainty, and find relief from worry in their everyday lives.
Many children experience anxious thoughts, worry about the unknown, or are afraid to try new things. In The Worry Workbook for Kids, two respected psychologists offer simple, action-based activities grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help young readers ages seven to twelve conquer their fear of uncertainty, set and accomplish goals, and—most importantly—bring fun and adventure back into their lives.
Teens often worry about school, friends, dating, and what the future holds. But chronic worrying can take a toll both mentally and physically—leading to insomnia, difficulty paying attention, and even headaches and stomachaches. Written by a Harvard faculty member and expert in teen anxiety, this is the first book to target chronic, debilitating worry in teens, and offers effective, easy-to-understand cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) exercises to alleviate worry symptoms and prevent them from escalating into full-blown generalized anxiety disorder.
The Yoga-CBT Workbook for Anxiety blends two highly effective anti-anxiety strategies—cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and Kundalini yoga—for an entirely new and powerful treatment. Written by the creators of yoga-cognitive behavioral therapy (Y-CBT), this book will help readers address the physical and psychological symptoms of anxiety to find lasting relief for both mind and body.
In Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong, Kelly Wilson and Troy DuFrene, authors of Mindfulness for Two, offer an effective approach based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to coping with the worry, panic, and fear associated with anxiety disorders. This comprehensive book is packed with in-the-moment strategies readers with anxiety can use to calm their fears.
Think Confident, Be Confident for Teens offers young readers a teen-focused, breakthrough program for eliminating self-doubt and increasing confidence and self-esteem. Marci Fox and Leslie Sokol, faculty members at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, adapted this cognitive therapy program for teens after the success of their book for adults, Think Confident, Be Confident.
For anybody who is unhappy or dissatisfied with their current job a description that reportedly fits more than half of all American workers every page of this compact, accessible guide is chock-full of tips and strategies that can help make work more enjoyable and rewarding, and successful beginning right now!
Thirty-Minute Therapy for Anger presents a breakthrough approach to the treatment of anger that is designed to fit the needs of people seeking fast solutions. Anger experts Ronald and Patricia Potter-Efron help readers identify their trouble spots and triggers, set realistic goals, and learn skills for managing anger before it gets out of control.
Thirty-Minute Therapy for Anxiety presents a breakthrough approach to the treatment of anxiety that is designed to fit the needs of anxiety sufferers seeking fast solutions. Written by bestselling author Matthew McKay and Troy DuFrene, this concise and highly accessible approach to anxiety treatment offers cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness and acceptance strategies. This is the first book in the Thirty-Minute Therapy series.
Anyone attempting to describe the indescribable nature of reality faces the same challenge—how does one use words to explain something that transcends language? Many writers fall into the trap of using more words, but author, spiritual teacher, and health psychologist John Astin takes a different approach: using fewer words instead of more, and grounding them with practical exercises designed to help readers focus on the content of their immediate experiences, rather than their linguistic or conceptual descriptions of them.
Written by a world-renowned spiritual teacher of A Course in Miracles, this book reveals the profound power of the present moment and shows how tapping into it using practical insights and simple exercises can fortify the mind against fear, break down perceived limitations and the false sense of separation, and help readers manifest a life of joy, oneness, and serenity.
This fourth edition of Thoughts and Feelings, one of New Harbinger’s bestselling books, offers step-by-step help for regulating stress, anxiety, depression, and difficult emotions. Revised and updated, this edition features new techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
This fourth edition of Thoughts and Feelings, one of New Harbinger’s bestselling books, offers step-by-step help for regulating stress, anxiety, depression, and difficult emotions. Revised and updated, this edition features new techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
Transformative Yoga reveals the key transformative process embedded within the yogic tradition. Readers will learn to take their practice to new depths to transform yoga into a truly spiritual pursuit.
Written by two clinical psychologists specializing in adult attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), this book offers a radical breakthrough approach using the science of attention regulation, and provides an effective new treatment plan for adults with ADHD. This book utilizes interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) and attention-regulation skills to help readers better sustain focus during exciting, high-interest activities and low-interest activities or boredom.
From the leaders of the renowned HeartMath Institute comes the first anger book to use scientifically proven techniques to transform the body's physical response to anger and show readers how to release and resist angry feelings.
From the best-selling authors of Transforming Anger and Transforming Stress comes the first book to apply scientifically proven techniques for engaging with the heart to promote fast and effective relief from anxiety.
This latest offering from the Institute of HeartMath shows readers how to use the revolutionary HeartMath(r) tools like the Freeze-Framer(r) and the Heart Lock-In(r) to overcome feelings of sadness and depression associated with stress and the sense of being overwhelmed by the chaotic world in which we live.
Written by the leaders of the renowed HeartMath Institute and authors of Transforming Anger, this book provides scientifically-proven techniques that alter the body's physical response to stress, and shows readers how to attain a peaceful, positive state of being.
In Transforming Stress for Teens, leaders from the world-renowned Institute of HeartMath and Clemson University’s Youth Learning Institute team up to teach overwhelmed and stressed-out teen readers how to use HeartMath skills. Finally available in a book just for teens, these proven-effective tools and techniques will help readers manage daily stress and anxiety and develop resilience by managing emotion—the HeartMath way.
This handbook offers mental health professionals clear, detailed guidelines for conducting effective treatment procedures for children and adolescents suffering from anxiety disorders.
For many teens, trauma can lead to problems with addiction. Now, for the first time ever, two mental health experts offer a powerful, integrative program to effectively treat teens with these often co-occurring issues. Based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness—two proven-effective therapies for addiction and mental health issues—Treating Co-occurring Adolescent PTSD and Addiction is essential for anyone working with this high-risk population.
Full 12 session treatment program incorporating cartoons and role playing games to help children recognize emotions, change negative thoughts, gain confidence, learn crucial inter-personal skills.
An effective and empirically validate approach to managing depression within the context of managed care. This approach adapts the best techniques from cognitive behavior, medical, and contextual therapies (especially the acceptance component) into a plan that really works with current healthcare delivery systems.
This guide helps you assess depression in your medically ill patients and understand how medical symptoms and the effects of medication can mimic depression. The authors include a comprehensive 12-session treatment plan.
Two leading experts in eating disorders offer a comprehensive, evidence-based program for treating adolescents with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating, with a focus on behavioral interventions. This groundbreaking professional guide utilizes an integrative approach drawing on Maudsley family-based treatment (FBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), compassion-focused therapy (CFT), exposure therapy, and appetite awareness training. This fully customizable approach meets the patient where they are—emotionally and cognitively—throughout the process of recovery.
Psychologist Elke Zuercher-White describes a 12-session treatment program that covers breath control training, changing automatic thoughts & underlying beliefs, interoceptive desensitization, and assertiveness training. Includes suggestions for treatment in a group format, a chapter on medications, and worksheets derived from her client workbook, An End to Panic (END2).
Treating Psychosis is an evidence-based treatment manual for mental health professionals working with individuals who experience psychosis, a serious form of mental illness that causes delusions, hallucinations, and thought disorders. Psychosis is usually associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and severe depression. This is the first professional book to use a compassionate, mindful approach to treating psychosis using acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and compassion-focused therapy (CFT). The book provides clinicians with a pre-treatment overview and treatment implementation strategies, and focuses on developing a realistic action plan for treating patients with psychosis, as well as maintaining wellness.
Trigger Point Therapy for Headaches and Migraines offers the first self-treatment approach to use this clinically proven bodywork method to care for headaches and migraines-a great asset to both people in pain and the bodywork practitioners who care for them
Trigger point expert Valerie DeLaune presents Trigger Point Therapy for Repetitive Strain Injury, a complete treatment manual for healing carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, and other repetitive strain injuries at home with trigger point therapy.
Guides survivors thru the healing proces of strengthening existing bonds, building new ones, and ending self-perpetuating cycles of withdrawal and isolation. Step-by-step exercises help readers learn how to manage emotions, handle unresolved issues, accept realistic limitations, and find ways to make their relationships a context for healing.
This eloquent and life-altering book offers readers a new and proven way to cut through personal differences with their partners and reach that direct, unmediated, heart-to-heart connection that can only occur when the heart is undefended.
Because traditional behaviorism overlooked function-altering behavior processes that are critical to understanding many behavior disorders, other theoretical models took the lead in the explanation of pathological human behavior. Current trends in behavior analysis, however, account for these processes, retuning behavior analysis to a strong position in this area of research. This book presents a cogent and comprehensive theory of behavior disorders from a behavior analytic perspective.
This collection of essays examines the consequence of expanding behavioral healthcare within the context of current healthcare delivery and proposed models of universal care.
For many, feelings of low self-worth can get in the way of reaching goals and living a happy, meaningful life. In this book, a psychologist offers a groundbreaking new approach to self-esteem based in mindfulness and positive psychology. This book provides practical, step-by-step strategies and skills to help readers develop feelings of competency, rebuild self-confidence, and connect with others through positive actions.
Stress affects both body and mind—leading to mental health issues such as anxiety and depression, as well as physical illnesses. In this guide, a professor of kinesiology shows readers how embodying positive emotions such as gratitude, compassion, empathy, and love can rewire the body’s stress response, ignite a sense of calm and connection, and lay the foundation for strength and resilience in the face of everyday stress.
Us is a masterful rendering of the life and relationships of a young woman tortured by her struggle with multiple personality disorder. This spiritual and touching novel, written by author and psychologist Matthew McKay, is at once realistic and fantastic, disconcerting and illuminating. Us has been made into an independent film starring Alanna Ubach.
With an emphasis on cultivating meaning and vitality in client lives, the values component of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is arguably what draws most clinicians to the treatment model—and yet there are no practical guides available to professionals written from an ACT perspective. Edited by two renowned ACT therapists, Values in Practice provides clinicians with practical tools to conceptualize, integrate, and effectively apply the values component of the ACT hexaflex with their clients.
No other source treats contextulism-as-world view as thoroughly as this volume. Essays from leading scholars in the field explore context in a range of disciplines and applications.
No other source treats contextulism-as-world view as thoroughly as this volume. Essays from leading scholars in the field explore context in a range of disciplines and applications.
Wawona Hotel is a searing look at that question, a book both lyrical and wise, that pushes to the core of the human need to be loved. The author Matthew McKay is a psychologist, whose books on therapy and self-help have sold more than 2 million copies. His poetry has been collected in two books: Lucifer in the Rest Home and The Yosemite Poems.
When teens are resistant to help, they may respond by acting defiant, rude, or even hostile. In turn, adults may respond by reasserting their authority—resulting in an endless power struggle. In What Works with Teens, two clinical social workers offer the first professional book for clinicians, educators, coaches, and other youth workers that presents essential core skills that research shows underlies all effective work with teens. Anyone who works with teens should read this book.
What if everyone gave their full, thoughtful attention to the words they said—or texted, or emailed? In What Would Buddha Say?, best-selling author Barbara Ann Kipfer presents 1,501 mindful communication tips based on the Buddhist concept of Right Speech—a belief that what you say can greatly affect your happiness. Readers will learn to speak their truth and say what they really mean, improve all of their relationships, and choose their words wisely and conscientiously in every situation.
Bingeing, purging, excessive dieting, and relentless exercising are all destructive behaviors common among young women with eating disorders. The activities in this book help teenage girls understand how their eating behaviors developed, recognize the relationship between their emotions and their eating, and learn to see their bodies in a positive light.
Bingeing, purging, excessive dieting, and relentless exercising are all destructive behaviors common among young women with eating disorders. The activities in this book help teenage girls understand how their eating behaviors developed, recognize the relationship between their emotions and their eating, and learn to see their bodies in a positive light.
When someone has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it can affect their entire family. Based in proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness, When a Family Member Has OCD offers an essential guide to help family members cope with their loved one’s compulsive behaviors, obsessions, and constant need for reassurance. Family members will also learn ways to understand and communicate with each other when OCD becomes a major part of family life. The book includes comprehensive information on OCD and its symptoms, as well as advice for each affected family member.
This book is a complete, step-by-step guide to changing habitual, anger-generating thoughts while developing healthier, more effective ways of meeting needs. It is ideal for therapists who work with families or teach anger control and helpful for health professionals who treat the effects of type A personality.
Based on a study of how 250 parents copy with their anger, this handbook helps readers understand their anger and the effect it has on their children. The authors identify 16 trigger thoughts that cause anger, and show parents how to change these thoughts into healthy, problem-solving communication.
Two psychologists offer couples a variety of tools and strategies to reduce conflict, diffuse rage, and move beyond repeated confrontations to regain a loving relationship.
When confronted with a confrontational situation, some people feel that to express anger is to risk losing control. Panic attacks, depression, headaches, and chronic pain often plague people who deny themselves a constructive outlet for their anger. This book includes exercises and techniques for developing constructive anger expression.
People with depression are at a greater risk of letting their emotions sabotage their relationships. They may constantly worry that they aren’t good enough for their partners. They may also become irritable with their partners, or push them away when they are feeling sad. To make matters worse, their sex life may suffer. The truth is that feelings of isolation, worthlessness, and tiredness can all take a hefty toll on a romantic relationship. But there is help. Using an integrative approach, When Depression Hurts Your Relationship offers practical skills to help readers with depression reignite intimacy with their partners.
The premise of this book is that well-intentioned men can cope in destructive ways that don't reflect their true character. It explores the latest research about male psychological development to develop a narrative for the struggles men face. Structured exercises and strategies help them transfer the concepts of the book into daily experience.
This revised and updated edition of When Perfect Isn't Good Enough offers the benefits of the latest research to readers who dread making mistakes and feel that nothing they do is quite good enough.
Written by a transpersonal psychologist and non-dual teacher, When Spirit Leaps will help readers understand spiritual awakening and how it occurs across all traditions, offering companionship and practical solutions to challenges along their own spiritual paths. With this book, based on over thirty years of case studies, readers will learn about the process and different portals of awakening, and find support in the real-life stories of those who have experienced this shift in consciousness and being.
This much-needed book acquaints parents of children and adolescents who cut themselves with the signs and causes of self-injury and offers strategies for communicating about the issue and getting kids the help they need to overcome this dangerous behavior.
For parents with a child suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD), behavior and relational challenges can be heartbreaking. In this groundbreaking book for parents of adult daughters with BPD, psychologist Daniel Lobel offers essential skills based in proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help readers understand their daughter’s disorder, set appropriate boundaries, put an end to daily emergencies, and rebuild the family’s structure from the ground up.
Having a teen with an eating disorder can leave parents feeling helpless. To help empower these parents, a clinical psychologist and expert in eating disorders offers an evidence-based program using family-based treatment (FBT) to help parents and caregivers take charge of their teen’s nutritional rehabilitation, which includes normalizing eating behaviors, managing meals, expanding food flexibility, teaching independent and intuitive eating habits, and utilizing coping strategies and recovery skills to prevent relapse.
White Fire is a collection of 800 gleaming sparks of wisdom from world-renowned Advaita master Mooji, whose followers number in the hundreds of thousands. These essential spiritual teachings ignite within the hearts of readers, guiding them toward the end of suffering and delusion, and thus revealing their true nature as perfect and timeless being. In Mooji’s own words, “Only when the ego is slain by the white fire of pure seeing will the light be set free—the light that illumines the whole world.”
A breakup or divorce can often send people into a tailspin, causing an identity crisis and loss of self-worth. Who Am I Without You? offers powerful skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), positive psychology, and mindfulness to help women tackle the difficult emotions that can surface after a breakup, such as grief, loss, anger, fear, worry, and low self-esteem. The simple tools and exercises in this book will help women break through the heartache of their past relationship, rediscover their true self, and live and love again.
When a loved one dies, children are faced with a kaleidoscope of feelings, thoughts, and questions. Struggling with these issues can be overwhelming without guidance, support, and creative forms of expression. This bereavement book contains simple, effective activities to help children and parents communicate about death and the grieving process. Through these activities, children will learn how to grow and thrive after the loss of a loved one.
Written by psychologist Matthew McKay, charismatic Silicon Valley spiritual leader Sean O’Laoire, and bestselling author Ralph Metzner, Why?offers a unique blend of psychology and spirituality to help readers reframe life's challenges as opportunities. Inside, readers will learn to dismantle tired, old traditions that tell them they should avoid pain and seek pleasure, create their own cosmology that unites their beliefs with their life’s mission, recognize this individual mission, and carry out exercises to bring them into alignment with this mission via personal practices. Despite these heady topics, the book is written in an accessible, inspiring, and entertaining tone.
This is the funny, sexy, and provocative memoir of one woman’s journey to find sexual fulfillment and create a new family model that includes herself, her lover, her husband and his lover, and their kids. In a world where women often feel pressured to be everything to everyone, Gracie X courageously strives to have it all. From dabbling in polyamory to adopting an open marriage, X eventually discovers how to have the family she wants, the love she needs, and the sexual freedom she has been craving. At once revealing, poignant, and controversial, Walcott shines light on life outside the traditional marriage box.
Get the real inside scoop on thriving as a teen with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Drawing on her own experiences living with the disorder, college student Grace Friedman—along with pediatric neurologist Sarah Cheyette—offers valuable tips and tricks to help teens face the unique challenges of ADHD. Readers will learn powerful cognitive behavioral strategies for coping with overwhelm, staying organized, tackling assignments and preparing for exams, dealing with emotions, communicating effectively with peers and adults, and maintaining strong friendships.
Everybody wants someone to love and spend time with, and searching for your ideal mate is a natural and healthy human tendency. Just about everyone dates at some point in their lives, yet few really understand what they are doing or how to get the best results. In Wired for Dating, psychologist and relationship expert Stan Tatkin—author of the best-selling Wired for Love—offers readers powerful tips based in neuroscience and attachment theory to help them find a compatible mate and go on to create successful, loving relationships.
Wired for Love offers couples principles from attachment theory and cognitive neuroscience to help them nurture the "couple bubble" and learn to please and soothe their partners. Readers also discover effective nonverbal communication skills, techniques for quickly resolving common pitfalls and conflicts, and easy ways to increase feelings of comfort and security.
In Wise Mind, Open Mind, a pioneering psychotherapist shows readers how to use mindfulness, meditation, and Buddhist psychology to shift their perspective and open themselves to creativity in the face of crisis and upheaval.
An expert in the study of worry and anxiety provides women with simple, engaging, proven effective CBT and mindfulness-based exercises and strategies to combat excessive worry, freeing them up to lead a more productive, stress-free life.
A controlling or abusive partner can break even the strongest woman, resulting in fear, anxiety, depression, trauma, and low self-esteem. Written by an expert in domestic violence and based on her highly successful twelve-week, three-stage recovery program for women with controlling partners, this book will empower women to overcome the abuse and coercion, and give them the strength to finally address the problem—or leave the relationship once and for all.
Write Your Own Prescription for Stress shows readers how to determine their personality types, identify their stresses, and recognize how their personalities contributes to their perceptions of stress in their lives. The authors write that personality and stress-coping resources hold the key to emotional well-being. Charts and worksheets.
A psychologist with an expertise in journal therapy, guides the reader through exercises designed to develop skills to manage out-of-control emotions, mood swings, anger, grief, depression, and mania. By teaching the reader to name emotions, use expressive writing to explore the roots of emotion, and track emotional states, the reader learns to express feelings and emotions in appropriate and healthy ways.
Writing to Awaken is an inspirational investigation of the self through expressive writing, guiding readers along the path of awakening through radical truth-telling and self-inquiry. With targeted and revelatory questions, readers are prompted to explore their personal narratives—to write openly and honestly about their deepest wounds, greatest challenges, hidden gifts, yearnings, and opportunities for growth—in order to discover a deeply authentic understanding of themselves and move toward a more liberated, truthful life.
True happiness isn’t as unattainable as we often believe. It’s a fundamental human experience available to us all in different ways and in different moments. In this unique guide, a celebrated yoga instructor blends ancient wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras with his own personal journey to show modern readers how to align everyday actions with a greater spiritual purpose, end the cycle of materialism and greed that can get in the way of cultivating stillness of mind, and achieve lasting happiness and joy.
In Yoga for Anxiety, Mary NurrieStearns, a psychotherapist and yoga teacher, and Rick NurrieStearns, a meditation teacher, present self-healing techniques for generalized anxiety disorder drawn from the yogic tradition.
In Yoga for Emotional Trauma, a psychotherapist and a meditation teacher present a yogic approach to emotional trauma by instructing readers to apply mindful awareness, breathing, yoga postures, and mantras to their emotional and physical pain.
When people grieve, they experience profound pain in both body and mind. Some may experience depression, fatigue, anxiety, or even chronic pain. For readers who’ve experienced loss (and have lost their way) Yoga for Grief Relief combines over 100 illustrations of gentle yogic poses and the latest research in psychophysiology and neuroscience to help them get back on the path to wellness. Written by the founder of Yoga for Health, the step-by-step exercises in this book can be tailored to the reader’s personal needs, and are designed to help them work through their loss and begin on the journey to self-knowledge and enlightenment.
In Yoga for Pain Relief, Stanford psychology instructor and prominent yoga teacher Kelly McGonigal shows readers how the wisdom of yoga and the latest skills drawn from mind-body research can end the physical and emotional suffering of chronic pain.
What is a “yoga mind?” And how can it help calm anxiety, heal painful thoughts, soothe stress, and bring a lasting sense of well-being? In Yoga Mind, Peaceful Mind, two seasoned yoga teachers present gentle meditations to help readers overcome anxiety and stress. This book’s emphasis on yoga’s contemplative tradition, rather than postures, makes it perfect for people of all walks of life, including those with physical disabilities. This is a thoughtful and accessible book to help readers achieve true peace of mind.
Yoga Sparks offers 108 quick, practical, and accessible yoga exercises that you can practice anytime, anywhere. In this book, you will learn how yoga in “bite-size” pieces can become a healthy habit that can relieve emotional stress, increase your physical strength and flexibility, and help you to lead a happier, healthier life.
The tenth edition of Your Perfect Right—the leading assertiveness guide with over 1.3 million copies sold—is now updated and repackaged for the book’s forty-fifth anniversary. This fully revised edition includes a new introduction by coauthor Robert Alberti, as well as up-to-date research and information on the subjects of anger and interpersonal communication. This book is the ultimate go-to guide to becoming more assertive!
The devastating loss of trust and well-being that accompanies any kind of trauma can trap a survivor in a state of victimhood. Your Surviving Spirit uses vignettes and activities to promote healing and transform trauma-based pain and despair into a feeling of healthy well-being and spiritual renewal. Case studies cover a variety of traumas, from childhood abuse to more contemporary disturbances. Author Dusty Miller explores six characteristics crucial to the process of transformation: Willingness, Letting Go, Commitment, Empathy and Compassion, Lightening Up, and Creating Connections. She uses fill-ins, questionnaires, and interactive exercises to keep the reader focused and engaged with these strategies. Skill-building exercises, journal-writing activities, and the creation of personal stories and affirmations reinforce healing on a daily basis that will help trauma survivors reclaim their inner strength and work toward spiritual transformation.