Overcoming Depression and Low Mood, Second Edition

Overcoming Depression and Low Mood, Second Edition by Chris Williams

Fully updated and based on extensive feedback, Overcoming Depression and Low Mood is a series of short self-help workbooks for use by people experiencing low mood and depression. Developed in liaison with a wide range of experts, the course provides access to the proven Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) approach. Providing accessible information and teaching key life skills the workbooks provide a practical and effective way of improving how you feel. Compassionate and supportive, the Overcoming Depression and Low Mood course addresses all the common challenges faced during times of low mood. It is empowering and encouraging, helping readers to make positive changes to their lives in a planned and achievable way. Readers learn how to: discover why they feel as they do develop better problem solving skills rebalance relationships by becoming more assertive become more active and rediscover the fun in their life build helpful responses to life stresses discover how to sleep better learn how to change negative and undermining thinking stop reacting in ways that backfire make choices that boost a healthy lifestyle plan for the future in order to stay well One workbook is aimed at friends and relatives and describes how best to offer support. The workbooks also provide an invaluable resouce for counsellors, general practitioners, nursing staff, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and self-help groups and organisations and are widely recommended by practitioners.

"In summary, I do not think you would go far wrong if you considered this a first port of call when looking for a CBT self-help book on depression"

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, Volume 36, Issue 02, Mar 2008, pp 248-250

Dr Chris Williams is a recognised expert and trainer in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, and works as a Senior Lecturer in Psychological Medicine at the University of Glasgow. He has been a Governing Board member of the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy (UKCP) and is a Past-President of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (BABCP), the lead body for CBT in the UK.

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ISBN 13	9780340905869
ISBN 10	0340905867
Title	Overcoming Depression and Low Mood, Second Edition
Author	Chris Williams
Series	Overcoming
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2006-08-25
Number of pages	328
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