Product Description

This book shows how to tackle self-defeating thinking and replace it with a problem-solving outlook.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88799 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

From the Back Cover
The way we think profoundly influences the way we feel, so learning to think differently can enable us to feel and act differently. Derived from the methods of cognitive behaviour therapy, this book shows how to tackle self-defeating thinking and replace it with a problem-solving outlook. This book gives clear and helpful advice on:
* dealing with troublesome emotions
* overcoming procrastination
* becoming assertive
* tackling poor time management
* persisting at problem solving
* handling criticism constructively
* taking risks and making better decisions.
This book will be invaluable to all those who are interested in becoming more personally effective in their everyday lives, and also to counsellors and students of counselling.

About the Author
Michael Neenan is Associate Director of the Centre for Stress Management, Blackheath, and a BABCP accredited cognitive-behavioural therapist. He has written or edited 12 books.
Windy Dryden is Professor of Counselling at Goldsmith's College, University of London and is an international authority on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. He is the co-author (with Laurence Spurling) of Becoming a Psychotherapist and co-author (with Jill Myton) of Four Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Customer Reviews

cognitive life coaching
This book is absolutely essential if you are an aspiring or practising life coach. It deals with numerous strategies that you can easily process and readily apply but without appearing high brow or unmanageable. Indeed, i was so impressed with both authors ability to couch complex language in such an impressive coherent fashion. Key chapters for me were the ones dealing with procrastination and change, simply superb! and worth their weight in gold just for the techniques needed to acquire new perspectives. The authors have found a missing element in the coaching arena that of being able to synergise elements of life coaching, counselling, NLP, psychotherapy and performance coaching this facet gives real credibility and clout their findings/assertions and i heartily endorse it

A text with a dual-role.
This book has a dual-role. It appears to have been written primarily for those people either training to be, or who are already life coaches. Additionally, the authors have styled the book as a "self-help" book.

A typical problem with this dual-role approach is that such books can become daunting to those seeking self-help, due to the inclusion of details of previous academic research undertaken in the topic. This book does include details of academic research but the information included in this book does not distractlay readers.

In my opinion other books may be more suitable for people approaching the subject of being their own life coach for the first time. However, for readers who wish to advance their own knowledge of being their own life coach the book does explain some apprached and ideas that may be useful.

This book does not help with life coaching
I have studied many books on life coaching and this one has to be the least useful. The book is about behaviour so may sit in the Psychology section but is definately not for the purpose of life coaching. If you are embarking of a study of life coaching this book will not help.