Product Description

This essential companion to the client manual Mind Over Mood provides clinicians with step-by-step details on how to tailor the program to fit their therapeutic needs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11968 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages

Review

"In Mind Over Mood, Greenberger and Padesky produced an absolutely first-rate guide for patients who wanted to learn about cognitive therapy and how to use it to deal with their problems. In Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood, the authors have provided an invaluable guide for the clinician to accompany their patient workbook. The guide is clear, concise, and filled with clinical wisdom. It should prove to be a valuable resource for anyone who wants to work with other people and reflects the kind of creativity that keeps cognitive therapy vital and fresh as it matures as a discipline." - Steve Hollon, Vanderbilt University, USA

From the Back Cover
This essential companion to the client manual, Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood provides clinicians with step-by-step details on how to tailor the program to fit their therapeutic needs. The volume covers the use of the program with a range of diagnoses, including depression, anxiety, personality disorders, panic disorders, substance abuse, and multiple problems. The authors' demonstrate how to use the manual with individuals, groups, and couples, as well as in inpatient settings and brief therapies. Each chapter includes troubleshooting guides that answer the questions most commonly asked by clinicians who are attempting to solve specific problems with their hard-to-reach clients. This book is an invaluable guide for mental health professionals using Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood with their clients.

Customer Reviews

An invaluable adjunct to 'Mind Over Mood' for the clinician
A well thought out and easy to digest book for use by the clinician. It gives brief overviews of the historical aspects of cognitive therapy and establishes the importance of developing collaborative empiricism and guided discovery between both parties whilst working towards mutual goals.

It clearly sets out how to incorporate mind over mood within various settings such as inpatient facilities, and in doing so, it can provide professionals with support through the early days of an admission. (Providing there is closely monitored supervision, and agreement within the Multi-Disciplinary-Team that this is appropriate).

The book also suggests how to work with groups, individuals and couples, and discusses the process step by step. It also has suggestions for troubleshooting should the therapist encounter difficulties.

Within the practice setting the clinicain could find that this book when used in conjunction with patients guide to mind over mood can help them to bring about changes in cognitive processing and behaviour change.

Janet B misses the point
Janet B misses the whole premise. Feelings are of course a response to the world around us, but between the sensory perception of an event in the world and the feeling that results comes a thought - often unnoticed. That thought is based on our beliefs and values and the way we view the world. All CBT asks us to do is to review those beliefs and values objectively and judge whether they are valid.

This book is simplistic and doesn't explain the core concepts of CBT as well as it might, but that doesn't detract from their validity.

100% Possitive book
I bought this book because I suffer with depression, amongst other things and I have found it 100% useful.I orginally bought it out of a random choice-only to be told by my friend who is a CBT nurse that it is one of the best books about for self help. You can work with the book at your pace and lesure, and I have found the sections I have done in it most helpful to my problems and I continue to use the book.100% recommended to those who need self help that is totally possitive.