Roz Shafran

Tracey Wade

Sarah Egan

How to break the vicious circle of 'never good enough' Perfectionism can be healthy but when it becomes unhealthy and turns into 'clinical perfectionism' (sometimes referred to as 'dysfunctional perfectionism') is can cause serious problems. It is associated with different mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, eating disorders and chronic fatigue syndrome. Those suffering from clinical perfectionism tend to judge themselves predominantly in terms of the pursuit and attainment of personally demanding standards and often feel unable to be flexible and change their goals, despite the significant negative impact that the pursuit of perfectionism may have on their quality of life. Includes: - Description of Clinical Perfectionism - Clinical Perfectionism and depression, anxiety, eating disorders, chronic fatigue - Identifying the problem and monitoring - Overcoming perfectionism - step-by-step self-help course based on CBT principles - Avoiding relapse - Case studies - Other treatments - an overview

A Self-help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques

Overcoming Perfectionism

Dr.Sarah Egan

How to break the circle of 'never good enough' Striving for something can be a healthy and positive attribute; it's good to aim high. But sometimes whatever we do just isn't good enough; we want to be too perfect and start setting unrealistic goals. Such high levels of perfectionism, often driven by low self-esteem, can turn against success and develop into unhealthy obsession, triggering serious mental-health problems, such as anxiety, depression and eating disorders. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), on which this self-help book is based, has been found to be a highly effective treatment and provides relief from that disabling sense of not being good enough. In this essential self-help guide, you will learn: - How clinical perfectionism manifests itself - Effective coping strategies with invaluable guidance on how to avoid future relapse OVERCOMING self-help guides use clinically-proven techniques to treat long-standing and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical. Many guides in the Overcoming series are recommended under the Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme. Series Editor: Professor Peter Cooper

A self-help guide using scientifically supported cognitive behavioural techniques

Overcoming Perfectionism 2nd Edition

Martin M. Antony

Sarah J. Egan

Tracey D. Wade

Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Perfectionism

• Ne yaparsanız yapın yeterince başarılı olmadığınızı mı düşünüyorsunuz? • Kendinizi sürekli başkalarıyla karşılaştırıyor ve kendinize daha olumsuz puan mı veriyorsunuz? • Kabul görmek, sevilmek veya beğenilmek için hiç hata yapmamak zorunda olduğunuza mı inanıyorsunuz? • Sürekli olarak her şeyi kontrol altında tutmaya mı çalışıyorsunuz? Bu sorulara olumlu cevap veriyorsanız "başarılı" olmaktan çok "mükemmel" olmaya çalışıyorsunuz demektir. Ama hatırlayın: Mükemmel iyinin düşmanıdır!İşin ayrıntılarında kaybolan, gereğinden çok fazla emek ve zaman harcamalarına rağmen başkaları tarafından nasıl değerlendirileceğinden endişe ederek kendilerini strese sokan mükemmeliyetçilerin her şeyden önce özsaygıları ve özgüvenleri düşüktür. Buna obsesif kompulsif kişilik ve kaygı bozukluğu, depresyon, hatta yeme sorunları bile eklenebilir ve sonuçta yaşam bir karabasan haline gelir. Ciddi sağlık sorunlarının baş göstermesi kaçınılmazdır. Üç bilim insanı tarafından hazırlanan bu kitap önce mükemmeliyetçiliğin ne olduğunu anlatıyor, sonra da Bilişsel Davranış Teknikleri'nin uygulandığı basit pratikler ve egzersizler yardımıyla bu sorunun nasıl üstesinden gelineceğini gösteriyor. Mükemmel olmaya çalıştığı için mutsuz ve başarısız olan kişiler ve ailelerinin yanı sıra ilgili sağlık uzmanları için de önemli bir kaynak.

MÜKEMMELİYETÇİLİK

Ursula Saunders

Alice Welham

Parenting and caring for a child who is struggling to cope can be painful and stressful, and can make it very hard to enjoy life yourself. Feelings of blame, guilt, sorrow, despair, fear and frustration may be swirling around alongside a desperate desire to cure their pain. Although parenting a child who is experiencing difficulties is a common problem, we can feel desperately alone when it is happening to us. When someone we love is unable to cope - for whatever reason - we may become unhappy too. When that someone is our child - the person we feel responsible for and inextricably linked to - it can be overwhelming and difficult to even have a life of our own. From when our children are babies, we know we would do almost anything to protect them from pain and suffering. But often, we can't. For countless parents and children there are problems with no easy solutions. However, that's where this book comes in. It aims to help understand for ourselves what we can and cannot do. It aims to help us to accept any distress, worry, anxiety, sadness or loss of control in our situations, to see that we can tolerate these things, and to know that there are ways to move forward. This book is packed with stories from real parents, and will show you how you can manage to find comfort from knowing you are not alone, find help from resources and techniques that really work, and find hope that things can and do change for the better., ,

Comfort, Help and Hope for Parents

How to Cope When Your Child Can't

Peter Cooper

Lee Brosan

Overcoming app now available. A highly respectable and authoritative self-help guide on all the anxiety disorders: generalised anxiety disorder, health anxiety, panic, phobias, social anxiety, OCD. Edited by three leading CBT clinicians in the UK, this comprehensive guide offers individual CBT-based treatments for a wide range of anxiety problems. Each individual treatment reflects current the treatment in the UK for that anxiety disorder and is written by the clinician responsible for developing that treatment in the first place. Contributors include: Lars-Goran Ost (phobias) Dr Gillian Butler (social phobia - Gillian is the author of Overcoming Social Anxiety & Shyness) Anke Ehlers & Jennifer Wild (PTSD) Nick Grey & David M. Clark (panic disorder) Heather Hadjistavropoulos (health anxiety) Kevin Meares & Mark Freeston (Generalised Anxiety Disorder) Roz Shafran & Adam Radomsky (OCD) An ideal resource not only for those experiencing anxiety problems, but CBT therapists and IAPT workers.

The Complete CBT Guide for Anxiety

Peter J. Cooper

A self-help guide to all the anxiety disorders: generalised anxiety disorder, health anxiety, panic, phobias, social anxiety, OCD. Edited by three leading CBT clinicians in the UK, it offers individual CBT-based treatments for a wide range of anxiety problems. Each individual treatment reflects current treatment in the UK for that anxiety disorder and is written by the clinician responsible for developing that treatment in the first place.

Pamela Myles-Hooton

Overcoming app now available via iTunes and the Google Play Store. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT is widely recommended nowadays in the NHS for the treatment of emotional and psychological problems, such as depression, low self-esteem, low mood, chronic anxiety, stress or out-of-control anger. This thorough yet easy-to-read general self-help guide is a must-have for anyone experiencing these common problems. Based on the popular and proven therapy CBT, it is written by two of the UK's leading experts in the field of CBT. It contains: Case studies and step-by-step CBT-based exercises. Based on the very latest research into CBT. Addresses problems associated with depression, anxiety, stress, anger and low self-esteem in individual chapters. Both for those suffering from these issues and clinicians.

A comprehensive guide to using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to overcome depression, anxiety and anger

The CBT Handbook

Stanley Rachman

Anna Coughtrey

Adam Radomsky

Provides a detailed account of the nature and causes of the various forms of a fear of contamination and their consequences, written by leading experts in the field. A fear of contamination drives the most common manifestation of obsessive compulsive disorders(OCD), compulsive washing. OCD is a distressing anxiety disorder that affects 1-2 percent of the population and can be disabling. Intense and complex forms of the disorder benefit from advanced analyses of contamination and its treatment. This book, part of a series on modern psychological treatments published by OUP, provides a detailed account of the nature and causes of the various forms of a fear of contamination and their consequences. Methods of treatment are described and fully illustrated by case histories. The inclusion of original analyses and explanations of a newly recognised form of the fear, mental contamination, is an important feature of the book and will enable therapists to expand their ability to assess and treat the abnormal fears of contamination. Written by clinicians with extensive experience, this volume is valuable for all clinical psychologists and psychotherapists with an interest in OCD.

Oxford Guide to the Treatment of Mental Contamination

This practical resource provides an evidence-based framework for treating clients struggling with perfectionism, whether as the main presenting problem or in conjunction with depression, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Using a case formulation approach, the authors draw on their extensive cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) experience to present specific techniques and interventions. Coverage spans treatment planning, the therapeutic alliance, key obstacles that may arise, relapse prevention, and emerging research. Reproducible assessment scales and 36 patient handouts are included; purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

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