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The way we think profoundly influences the way we feel, so learning to think differently can enable us to feel and act differently. Derived from the methods of cognitive behaviour therapy, this book shows how to tackle self-defeating thinking and replace it with a problem-solving outlook. This book gives clear and helpful advice on:
- Dealing with troublesome emotions
- Overcoming procrastination
- Becoming assertive
- Tackling poor time management
- Persisting at problem solving
- Handling criticism constructively
- Taking risks and making better decisions.
This book will be invaluable to all those who are interested in becoming more personally effective in their everyday lives, and also to counsellors and students of counselling.
About the Author
Michael Neenan is Associate Director of the Centre for Stress Management, Blackheath, and a BABCP accredited cognitive-behavioural therapist. He has written or edited 12 books. Windy Dryden is Professor of Counselling at Goldsmith's College, University of London and is an international authority on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. He is the co-author (with Laurence Spurling) of Becoming a Psychotherapist and co-author (with Jill Myton) of Four Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy.
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77 of 82 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is absolutely essential if you are an aspiring or practising life coach. It deals with numerous strategies that you can easily process and readily apply but without appearing high brow or unmanageable. Indeed, i was so impressed with both authors ability to couch complex language in such an impressive coherent fashion. Key chapters for me were the ones dealing with procrastination and change, simply superb! and worth their weight in gold just for the techniques needed to acquire new perspectives. The authors have found a missing element in the coaching arena that of being able to synergise elements of life coaching, counselling, NLP, psychotherapy and performance coaching this facet gives real credibility and clout their findings/assertions and i heartily endorse it
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a self-help book, which is very easy to use. Even if you don't have emotional problems the book enables the layperson to understand his negative thought processes and how he can change them. I think it uses very creative ways of recognising the fault of over generalisation and other negative thought traps which tend to create far to many imagined problems. The practical way to challenge this is through a more rational thought process.
In Chapter 9 'understanding the personal change process' the big I, little I diagram brilliantly explains why we tend to use the big I to develop an absolute negative emotion about our personality and shows all the little I's say many positive things about a person. And can be used to overcome the tendency towards negative responses. Which then leads towards a much better understanding that changing the thought process can lead to self-acceptance instead of self-defeat. An excellent, well written, plain speaking book I would recommend to people with or without emotional issues.
In Chapter 9 'understanding the personal change process' the big I, little I diagram brilliantly explains why we tend to use the big I to develop an absolute negative emotion about our personality and shows all the little I's say many positive things about a person. And can be used to overcome the tendency towards negative responses. Which then leads towards a much better understanding that changing the thought process can lead to self-acceptance instead of self-defeat. An excellent, well written, plain speaking book I would recommend to people with or without emotional issues.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I have found this book incredibly helpful over the past 8 years and continue to refer to it on a regular basis. I have bought copies for many colleagues who have also benefited from it. The first chapter, which lists the many different types of faulty thinking, is worth the price on its own.
In particular, I really appreciate the way in which key academic studies backing up the main points are referenced. Some other readers may not like this, but I do because it marks this book out as different from a typical self-help book (I think most of us are familiar with those breathless pep talks).
This book is also intensely practical. While it is quite short it includes all the basics of cognitive behavioural thinking which allow you to start applying it right away.
In particular, I really appreciate the way in which key academic studies backing up the main points are referenced. Some other readers may not like this, but I do because it marks this book out as different from a typical self-help book (I think most of us are familiar with those breathless pep talks).
This book is also intensely practical. While it is quite short it includes all the basics of cognitive behavioural thinking which allow you to start applying it right away.
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Life Coaching. A Cognitive Behavioural Approach
I think it is a lot more complicated than it should be.
A huge amount of reference to the original psychologists/psychiatrists who researched work etc, which if you want to... Read more
A huge amount of reference to the original psychologists/psychiatrists who researched work etc, which if you want to... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mrs. O. Jenkinson
The best of its type
This is a great explanation of how life coaching and CBT work. I've read a few and this was the best; it was recommended to me by a cognitive behavioural therapist.
Published 22 months ago by Monica
Not sure this is life coaching?
This is a good book if you want to understand the basic core beliefs of Cognitive Behavioural therapy. Is it for life coaching? Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2009 by S
A text with a dual-role.
This book has a dual-role. It appears to have been written primarily for those people either training to be, or who are already life coaches. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2004
This book does not help with life coaching
I have studied many books on life coaching and this one has to be the least useful. The book is about behaviour so may sit in the Psychology section but is definately not for the... Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2003
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