New Book: Build your Resilience
Donald Robertson
Due for publication by Hodder in May 2012, as part of the popular Teach Yourself series of self-help books.
ISBN: 1444168711
Resilience: How to Thrive and Survive in Any Situation helps you to prepare for adversity by finding healthier ways of responding to stressful thoughts and feelings. You will learn a comprehensive toolkit of effective therapeutic strategies and techniques, drawing upon innovative “mindfulness and acceptance-based” approaches to cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), combined with elements of established psychological approaches to stress prevention and management. The book also draws upon classical Stoic philosophy to provide a wider context for resilience-building.
This book is a complete course in resilience training, covering everything from building long-term resilience by developing psychological flexibility, mindfulness and valued action, through specific behavioural skills such as applied relaxation, worry postponement, problem-solving, and assertiveness. Each chapter contains a self-assessment test, case study, practical exercises and reminder boxes and concludes with a reminder of the key points of the chapter (Focus Points) and a round-up of what to expect in the next (Next Step), which will whet your appetite for what’s coming and how it relates to what you’ve just read.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: What is Resilience?
2. Letting go of Experiential Avoidance
3. Values Clarification
4. Commitment to Valued Action
5. Acceptance & Defusion
6. Mindfulness & the Present Moment
7. Progressive Relaxation
8. Applied Relaxation
9. Worry Postponement
10. Problem-Solving Training
11. Assertiveness & Social Skills
12. Stoic Philosophy & Resilience
About the Author
Donald Robertson is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Harley Street. He is a CBT practitioner specialising in treating anxiety and building resilience and director of a leading therapy training organisation. He is the author of many journal articles and three books on therapy, The Philosophy of CBT, The Discovery of Hypnosis, and The Practice of Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy, and blogs regularly from his website www.londoncognitive.com.
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