Build Your Resilience CBT, Mindfulness and Stress Management to Survive and Thrive in Any Situation

Build Your Resilience 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-behavorial 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 reliance training, covering everything from building long-term resilience by developing psychological flexibility, mindfulness and valued action, through specific behavioral 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 and a round-up of what to expect i the next, which will whet your appetite for what's coming and how it relates to what you've just read.