Build your Resilience
How to Thrive & Survive in Any Situation
Donald Robertson
Published by Hodder in May 2012, as part of the popular Teach Yourself series of self-help books.
ISBN: 1444168711
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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