Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5461 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09-21
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages

Synopsis
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.

Customer Reviews

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.

Depressing and disappointing
I'm a mental health professional and I facilitate a depression group, this book was recommended to me for use with the group. I found the book clinical, unhelpful and very much a one size fits all ethos. The format of the book is forbidding and depressing. I don't recommend this book.

No good if you want to look beyond your thoughts
I've read many CBT self-help books both as a mental health professional and a sufferer of depression. What this book fails to recognise are my feelings as a human being. My feelings are not simply a direct reaction to my thoughts but are direct responses to the world. Mind Over Mood suggests that all I need to is 'reprogram' my thinking (as if I'm some computer!) and I'll feel better. But 'bad' feelings often tell us that there is something wrong in our world and if we continue changing what Padesky calls 'negative cognitions' then we fail to value either ourselves as accurate perceptors of an often damaging world, whilst we remain passive citizens who do not act to change what is wrong in society, the relationship, the family etc.

As a mental health professional I know that there is no money-saving substitute for seeking the sensitive support of a psychotherapist. Difficult feelings and thoughts happen for a reason and we owe it to ourselves to plumb the depths rather than gloss over the surface.