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Book: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook For Dummies

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Book Title:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook For Dummies.

Author(s): Rhena Branch and Rob Wilson, PhD.

Year: 2012.

Edition: Second (2nd).

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Dozens of practical exercises and easy to perform techniques for banishing negative thoughts before they take hold.

Whether you are trying to overcome anxiety and depression, boost self-esteem, beat addiction, lose weight, or simply improve your outlook, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) offers a practical, sensible approach to mastering your thoughts and thinking constructively.

In this updated and expanded edition of the companion workbook to their bestselling Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies, professional therapists Rhena Branch and Rob Wilson show you, step-by-step, how to put the lessons provided in their book into practice. Inside you will find a huge number of hands-on exercises and techniques to help you remove roadblocks to change and regain control over your life.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook For Dummies, Second Edition:

  • Develops the ideas and concepts that presented in the bestselling Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies, Second Edition and provides exercises to put those ideas into practice
  • Features a range of hands-on CBT exercises and techniques for beating anxiety or depression, boosting your self-esteem, losing weight, or simply improving your outlook on life

Book: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies

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Book Title:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies.

Author(s): Rhena Branch and Rob Wilson, PhD.

Year: 2019.

Edition: Third (3rd).

Publisher: Joh Wiley and Sons Inc.

Type(s):Paperback.

Synopsis:

Retrain your thinking and your life with these simple, scientifically proven techniques! Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT for short, is often cited as the gold standard of psychotherapy. Its techniques allow you to identify the negative thought processes that hold you back and exchange them for new, productive ones that can change your life.

Increasingly popular among healthcare professionals, the CBT approach can be used by anyone to overcome common problems ranging from depression or anxiety to more complex disorders like OCD, PTSD and addiction. CBT can also be used to simply developing a healthier, more productive outlook on life.

This book shows you how you can easily incorporate the techniques of CBT into your day-to-day life and produce tangible results. You will learn how to take your negative thoughts to boot camp and retrain them, establishing new habits that tackle your toxic thoughts and retool your awareness, allowing you be free of the weight of past negative thinking biases.

  • Move on: take a fresh look at your past and maybe even overcome it.
  • Mellow out: relax yourself through techniques that reduce anger and stress Lighten up: read practical advice on healthy attitudes for living and ways to nourish optimism.
  • Look again: discover how to overcome low self-esteem and body image issues Whatever the issue, do not let your negative thoughts have the last say.

Book: Clinical Psychology

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Book Title:

The Science and Practice of Clinical Psychology.

Author(s): Timothy J. Trull and Mitch J. Prinstein.

Year: 2012.

Edition: Eighth (8th).

Publisher: Cengage Learning.

Type(s): Hardcover and Paperback.

Synopsis:

In language your students will understand and enjoy reading, Trull/Prinstein’s THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 8E, International Edition offers a concrete and well-rounded introduction to clinical psychology. A highly respected clinician and researcher, Dr. Trull examines the rigorous research training that clinicians receive, along with the empirically supported assessment methods and interventions that clinical psychologists must understand to be successful in the field. This new edition of Trull’s bestselling text covers cutting-edge trends, as well as offers enhanced coverage of culture, gender and diversity, and contemporary issues of health care. Written to inspire students thinking of pursuing careers in the field of clinical psychology, this text is a complete introduction.

Book: The Chemistry of Joy Workbook

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Book Title:

The Chemistry of Joy Workbook: Overcoming Depression Using the Best of Brain Science, Nutrition, and the Psychology of Mindfulness (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook).

Author(s): Henry Emmons MD, Susan Bourgerie MA LP, Carolyn Denton MA LN, and Sandra Kacher MSW LICSW.

Year: 2012.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, Illustrated Edition.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Joy comes of its own accord when we are in our naturally healthy state. Every one of us has the capacity for joy, but many forces in our lives keep us from enjoying this contented and healthy state of being.

When our resilience is depleted, we find it difficult to adapt to change, face challenges, and deal with the ups and downs life brings. If your natural resilience has been consumed by stress or depression, you can reclaim it with the resilience-building programme in The Chemistry of Joy Workbook. Through the questionnaires, exercises, and practices in this guide, you will explore the nine pathways to restoring mood, regaining balance, and rediscovering your capacity for joy.

This book will help you reclaim your joy by teaching you to balance your body with proper nutrition and principles from ayurvedic medicine, how to settle your mind with mindfulness practices, and how to skillfully managing those “emotional tsunamis”. In addition, you will learn to find the right medications and supplements, tap into the wisdom, generosity, and openness that lie within, and build your self-acceptance and connection with others.

If you are ready to reclaim your life from stress, depression, or anxiety and find deep, proufound happiness, this book will be your guide.

Book: Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns

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Book Title:

Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns – A Schema Therapy Self-Help and Support Book.

Author(s): Gitta Jacob.

Year: 2015.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell.

Type(s): Hardcover, Paperback, and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns is the first schema-mode focused resource guide aimed at schema therapy patients and self-help readers seeking to understand and overcome negative patterns of thinking and behaviour.

  • Represents the first resource for general readers on the mode approach to schema therapy.
  • Features a wealth of case studies that serve to clarify schemas and modes and illustrate techniques for overcoming dysfunctional modes and behaviour patterns.
  • Offers a series of exercises that readers can immediately apply to real-world challenges and emotional problems as well as the complex difficulties typically tackled with schema therapy.
  • Includes original illustrations that demonstrate the modes and approaches in action, along with 20 self-help mode materials which are also available online.
  • Written by authors closely associated with the development of schema therapy and the schema mode approach.

Respect for the Aged Day

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Introduction

Respect for the Aged Day (敬老の日, Keirō no Hi) is a Japanese designated public holiday celebrated annually to honour elderly citizens.

Annually, Japanese media take the opportunity to feature the elderly, reporting on the population and highlighting the oldest people in the country.

Brief History

  • This national holiday traces its origins to 1947, when Nomadani-mura (later Yachiyo-cho, currently Taka-cho), Hyōgo Prefecture, proclaimed 15 September Old Folks’ Day (Toshiyori no Hi).
  • Its popularity spread nationwide, and in 1966 it took its present name and status, becoming a national holiday and officially being held on every 15 September.
  • Since 2003, Respect for the Aged Day is held on the third Monday of September due to the Happy Monday System.

Commemorative Silver Sake Cups

  • Since 1963, the Japanese government has given a commemorative silver sake cup to Japanese who reach the age of 100.
  • In 1963 the number was 153, but with numbers increasing, in 2009, the government decided to reduce the size of the cup to cut costs.
  • In 2014, 29,357 received a cup.
  • The cost increase from this led to the government considering making the cups from a different material or simply sending a letter.

Celebration

On this holiday, people return home to visit and pay respect to the elders. Some people volunteer in neighbourhoods by making and distributing free lunch boxes to older citizens. Entertainments are sometimes provided by teenagers and children with various keirokai performances. Special television programmes are also featured by Japanese media on this holiday.

On This Day … 15 September

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People (Deaths)

  • 2014 – Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and author (b. 1936).

Introduction

Jürg Schubiger (14 October 1936 to 15 September 2014) was a Swiss psychotherapist and writer of children’s books.

He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Award) in 1996 for Als die Welt noch jung war.

For his “lasting contribution” as a children’s writer Schubiger received the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2008. The award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children’s books.

Background

  • Schubiger was born in Zürich and raised in Winterthur, Switzerland.
  • He graduated from the University of Zürich in German Studies, Psychology and Philosophy.
  • He wrote his PhD thesis on Franz Kafka.
  • He most recently lived in Zürich.
  • Schubiger died in 2014, aged 77, four weeks and one day before his 78th birthday.

Works

Children’s

  • Dieser Hund heißt Himmel. Tag- und Nachtgeschichten. Illustrated by Klaus Steffens. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1978, ISBN 3-407-80541-1.
  • Das Löwengebrüll. Märchen, Geschichten. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1988, ISBN 3-407-80190-4.
  • Als die Welt noch jung war. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-407-79653-6; Taschenbuch ebd. 2000, ISBN 3-407-78393-0.
  • When the World was New: Stories Annick Press Ltd., 1996, ISBN 978-1-55037-500-8.
  • Mutter, Vater, ich und sie. Erzählung. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1997, ISBN 3-407-79748-6; Taschenbuch ebd. 2001, ISBN 3-407-78479-1.
  • Wo ist das Meer? Geschichten. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2000, ISBN 3-407-79806-7; Taschenbuch ebd. 2003, ISBN 3-407-78554-2.
  • Seltsame Abenteuer des Don Quijote. Aufbau, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-351-04046-6.
  • Die Geschichte von Wilhelm Tell. Nagel & Kimche, München 2003, ISBN 3-312-00942-1; DTV, München 2006, ISBN 3-423-62268-7.
  • Aller Anfang (with Franz Hohler). Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2006, ISBN 3-407-79914-4.
  • Der weiße und der schwarze Bär. Hammer, Wuppertal 2007, ISBN 978-3-7795-0078-0.
  • Zebra, Zecke, Zauberwort (with Isabel Pin). Hammer, Wuppertal 2009, ISBN 978-3-7795-0226-5.
  • Der Wind hat Geburtstag. Hammer, Wuppertal 2010, ISBN 978-3-7795-0282-1.
  • De Strubelpeter. Mundartfassung. Elfundzehn, Eglisau 2010, ISBN 978-3-905769-20-3.

Prose

  • Barbara. Erzählung. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1956.
  • Guten Morgen. Eine Erzählung. Tschudy, St. Gallen 1958.
  • Die vorgezeigten Dinge. Geschichten. Zytglogge [de], Gümligen 1972, ISBN 3-7296-0010-9.
  • Haus der Nonna: Eine Kindheit in Tessin (with Joli Schubiger-Cedraschi). Huber, Frauenfeld 1980; überarbeitete Neuausgabe: Limmat, Zürich 1996, ISBN 3-85791-270-7.
  • Unerwartet grün. Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-472-86564-4.
  • Hin- und Hergeschichten (with Franz Hohler). Nagel & Kimche, Zürich 1986, ISBN 3-312-00118-8; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-596-29258-1.
  • Hinterlassene Schuhe. Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zürich 1989, ISBN 3-312-00142-0.
  • Haller und Helen. Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-85218-396-0.
  • Das Ausland. Hammer, Wuppertal 2003, ISBN 3-87294-929-2.
  • Du stehst in meinen Leben herum. Journal zu zweit (mit Renate Schubiger). Zytglogge [de], Oberhofen 2004, ISBN 3-7296-0681-6.
  • Die kleine Liebe. Novel. Haymon, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-85218-558-3.

Addictions: Broken Brain Model vs Systems-Level Perspective

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Research Paper Title

Curing the broken brain model of addiction: Neurorehabilitation from a systems perspective.

Background

The dominant biomedical perspective on addictions has been that they are chronic brain diseases.

While the authors acknowledge that the brains of people with addictions differ from those without, they argue that the “broken brain” model of addiction has important limitations. They propose that a systems-level perspective more effectively captures the integrated architecture of the embodied and situated human mind and brain in relation to the development of addictions. This more dynamic conceptualisation places addiction in the broader context of the addicted brain that drives behaviour, where the addicted brain is the substrate of the addicted mind, that in turn is situated in a physical and socio-cultural environment.

From this perspective, neurorehabilitation should shift from a “broken-brain” to a systems theoretical framework, which includes high-level concepts related to the physical and social environment, motivation, self-image, and the meaning of alternative activities, which in turn will dynamically influence subsequent brain adaptations. The authors call this integrated approach system-oriented neurorehabilitation.

They illustrate their proposal by showing the link between addiction and the architecture of the embodied brain, including a systems-level perspective on classical conditioning, which has been successfully translated into neurorehabilitation. Central to this example is the notion that the human brain makes predictions on future states as well as expected (or counterfactual) errors, in the context of its goals.

The authors advocate system-oriented neurorehabilitation of addiction where the patients’ goals are central in targeted, personalised assessment and intervention.

Reference

Wiers, R.W. & Verschure, P. (2020) Curing the broken brain model of addiction: Neurorehabilitation from a systems perspective. Addictive Behaviors. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106602. Online ahead of print.

Book: Best Ways to Manage Stress

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Book Title:

Best Ways to Manage Stress: 30 Easy Ways to Beat Stress.

Author(s): Richard Malishe.

Year: 2020.

Edition: First (1st).

Publisher: Unknown.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Best Ways to Manage Stress is the guide you need to not only understand why you are so stressed but to help you get rid of that stress for good. You do not need to keep feeling overwhelmed and discouraged by your stress; you can take charge of your feelings and walk with more confidence and reassurance. The best part is that you can start making changes today! You do not have to wait to feel better.

Most people know that stress is a part of many people’s lives, and they have probably felt the impacts of stress on their lives. You can probably list things that are stressing you right this very minute. Thus, stress is one of the most prevalent problems that humans face, but it is too often portrayed as something annoying without being shown as dangerous. The truth is that stress is incredibly harmful not only to your mental health but also to your physical health. Stress kills thousands of people each year, and it costs healthcare systems around the world billions of dollars. Heart disease, obesity, and immune disorders are just some of the ailments impacted by stress, and we have only begun to realise the tremendous influence of stress on the body. Imagine how much healthier people would be if they could get their stress under control. You can heal your body by merely being less stressed.

Stress most obviously impacts your mental health. You are probably familiar with that awful feeling of tension that consumes your body when you feel stressed. This feeling leads to side effects like rumination, chronic worry, and the inability to focus. Unfortunately, stress can also lead to mental illnesses like anxiety disorders and depression. The more you let stress linger, the worse your condition becomes. Some people go their whole lives feeling awful because of how much stress they have.

You don’t need to be like other people. You do not have to go to work and feel stressed. You do not have to lay in bed at night worrying about what will happen in the morning. This book will show you that you can take a breathe and let the knots in your shoulders dissolve. We need to stop calling stress normal because it does not have to be normal anymore. With the right tools, humans could release themselves from their stress and live their lives more freely.

Book: Becoming an Addictions Counselor

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Book Title:

Becoming an Addictions Counselor: A Comprehensive Text.

Author(s): Peter L. Myers and Norman R. Salt.

Year: 2018.

Edition: Fourth (4th).

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Type(s): Paperback and Kindle.

Synopsis:

Becoming an Addictions Counselor, Fourth Edition provides evidence-based findings, cutting-edge treatment techniques, and a focus on critical thinking to show future counsellors how to respond to clients’ needs rather than impose “cookie-cutter” routines.