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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy treats emotional disorders by changing negative patterns of thought. It is now internationally established as a key method of helping overcome longstanding conditions such as panic attacks, depression, anxiety, gambling addictions and some eating disorders.

The first thing that is attractive about this book is the total lack of "technicalese"; this, coupled with its logical construction makes it not only interesting but also easily accessible to the lay reader.

To begin with, a guest author explains the history, meaning and relevance of cognitive therapy. This is followed by Melanie Fennell focusing on "Low Self Esteem" as an introduction to the main body of the book. The reader is then asked to participate in a self-assessment exercise. Having proven to have low self esteem, the reader is shown not only the impact self-esteem can have on their lives, but also many of the resultant issues--physical, emotional and social.

"Having cleared the ground", the author proceeds to explain the importance of and means to identifying triggers to bouts of low self-esteem. This can be as a long-established predilection or as the result of learned behaviour. Once this is achieved, Fennell goes on to advise ploys to overcome these triggers.

There follows a reinforcement to overcoming the triggers by the use of a Daily Action Diary (DAD), where the reader plans their daily routine. Once these "tasks" have been accomplished, they can be ticked off, proving not only self worth by achievement but also acting as a self-distracter.

The book concludes by offering suggestions for "Putting Life Together" and "Planning for the Future". This is done by the use of simple graticules as an easy way of spotting self- critical thoughts and a "Precaution Record Sheet"

This is a very useful book that achieves its stated aims of explaining the nature of low self esteem and self- destructive thinking, providing a complete self-help programme and monitoring sheets and basing its advice on clinically proven techniques of cognitive therapy. -- Peter Kidd, trained Community Psychiatric Nurse

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To set you on the road and to help with your shyness, read
Overcoming Low Self-Esteem by Melanie Fennell. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   42 of 44 people found the following review helpful: Confused and badly structured, 10 Mar 2008 By  M. WALLACE (Glasgow United Kingdom) - See all my reviews    While I found I could identify with much of the symptoms and causes of symptoms in this book I found it badly written and unstructured to the extent of being almost unreadable in parts. Also, the self-help program was based on the assumptions that situations that are affected by your low self esteem have TANGIBLE and OBSERVABLE outcomes which is not generally appropriate to myself. I don't mean to knock this book outright - I found it useful in helping identify certain causes of my social-anxiety and can see that it could be very helpful for certain anxieties. Unfortunately however, not for me.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   149 of 186 people found the following review helpful: People with low self-esteem need more than just positive thinking techniques, 14 Aug 2006 By  A. Cardellini - See all my reviews I did not find this book particularly helpful. Ironically, it was my therapist who recommended it to me. The problem is that it is based on the assumption that all people with low self-esteem have got to do to solve their problems is to remind themselves of all their good qualities and to stop thinking negatively about themselves. If only it was that easy for everybody! People with low self-esteem do need to change the way they think about themselves in order to feel better, but they also need people around them who care about them - family or friends - to validate those thoughts. Nobody lives in a bubble - it's all very well thinking you are a fabulous person but what good is that going to do you if nobody else on the planet agrees? All the self-help books I have read on self-esteem, such as this one, make this mistake - they ignore the role having a social network plays in maintaining self-esteem. And the fact of the matter is that many of the people out there with low self-esteem are also lonely - they don't have a lot of family and friends. What they need is not just a book that tells them how to love themselves but also help and advice on how to build their social networks.  Comments (4) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)