Beat Stress with CBT: Teach Yourself

Summary:

Is your stress threatening to take over your life? "Beat Stress with CBT" is a clear, hands-on, practical guide to dealing with stress in every situation. It uses an effective, drug-free approach - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - that will give you lasting support and solutions to your stress. Using CBT, you can identify your reaction to stressful situations, and pick out the aspects of your life or personality which feel uncontrollable. This book will give you a straightforward method of measuring and reducing your stress levels, and help you to tackle the related problems such as poor sleep, anxiety, depression or disordered eating or drinking. Using a mixture of immediate solutions and long-term strategies, CBT will help you rework your mindset and find a healthier, less stressful way of life.

• Two excellent authors - one a reliable, fluent writer and practising counsellor, the other a high-profile psychologist
• All the interactive, write-in features that distinguish CBT from other self-help books
• Case studies and author insights that will help the reader feel supported

Table of Contents:
Chapter One - Understanding Stress
Chapter Two - Measuring and monitoring your stress levels
Chapter Three - Thinking your way out of stress
Chapter Four - Track down your personal stress source
Chapter Five - De-stress using your body
Chapter Six - De-stress through organisaton
Chapter Seven - Overcoming stress-related anger
Chapter Eight - Improve your communication skills
Chapter Nine - Stress at work, stress at home
Chapter Ten - Bringing it all together
Appendix
Work sheets
Useful contacts
Bibliography

About the Author(s):
Stephen Palmer (London, UK) is founder of the Centre for Stress Management and honorary professor of psychology at City University, and a coaching trainer and consultant . He is author or editor of over 25 books, and an expert on BBC1's The Stress Test.

Christine Wilding (Sussex, UK) is a human resource practicioner and psychotherapist.

Readership:
Readers suffering from anxiety, those referred for stress management by GPs, etc