Description
Discover simple yet powerful steps you can take to overcome emotional distress--and feel happier, calmer, and more confident. This life-changing book has already helped more than 1,000,000 readers use cognitive-behavioral therapy--one of today's most effective forms of psychotherapy--to conquer depression, anxiety, panic attacks, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, eating disorders, substance abuse, and relationship problems. Revised and expanded to reflect significant scientific developments of the past 20 years, the second edition contains numerous new features: expanded content on anxiety; chapters on setting personal goals and maintaining progress; happiness rating scales; gratitude journals; innovative exercises focused on mindfulness, acceptance, and forgiveness; 25 new worksheets; and much more.
Mind Over Mood will help you:
*Learn proven, powerful, practical strategies to transform your life.
*Follow step-by-step plans to overcome depression, anxiety, anger, guilt, and shame.
*Set doable personal goals and track your progress (you can photocopy the worksheets from the book or download and print additional copies).
*Practice your new skills until they become second nature.
Cited as “The Most Influential Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Publication” by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and included in the UK Nationa
Chapter
A Brief Message for Clinicians and Interested Readers
1. How Mind Over Mood Can Help You
2. Understanding Your Problems
3. It’s the Thought That Counts
4. Identifying and Rating Moods
5. Setting Personal Goals and Noticing Improvement
6. Situations, Moods, and Thoughts
9. Alternative or Balanced Thinking
10. New Thoughts, Action Plans, and Acceptance
11. Underlying Assumptions and Behavioral Experiments
13. Understanding Your Depression
14. Understanding Your Anxiety
15. Understanding Your Anger, Guilt, and Shame
16. Maintaining Your Gains and Experiencing More Happiness
Appendix: Duplicate Copies of Selected Worksheets
Worksheet 9.2. Thought Record
Worksheet 10.2. Action Plan
Worksheet 11.2. Experiments to Test an Underlying Assumption
Worksheet 12.6. Core Belief Record: Recording Evidence That Supports a New Core Belief
Worksheet 12.7. Rating Confidence in My New Core Belief
Worksheet 12.8. Rating Behaviors on a Scale
Worksheet 12.9. Behavioral Experiments to Strengthen New Core Beliefs
Worksheet 13.1. Mind Over Mood Depression Inventory
Worksheet 13.2. Mind Over Mood Depression Inventory Scores
Worksheet 13.6. Activity Schedule
Worksheet 14.1. Mind Over Mood Anxiety Inventory
Worksheet 14.2. Mind Over Mood Anxiety Inventory Scores
Worksheet 14.4. Making a Fear Ladder
Worksheet 14.5. My Fear Ladder
Worksheet 15.1. Measuring and Tracking My Moods
Worksheet 15.2. Mood Scores Chart
Worksheet 15.4. Writing a Forgiveness Letter
Worksheet 15.9. Forgiving Myself
Worksheet 16.2. My Plan to Reduce Relapse Risk