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Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Those Who Say They Can't
A Workbook for Overcoming Your Self-Defeating Thoughts
Elliot D. Cohen
- 192 pages
- English
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Those Who Say They Can't
A Workbook for Overcoming Your Self-Defeating Thoughts
Elliot D. Cohen
Ă propos de ce livre
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Those Who Say They Can't is a comprehensive aid for people who stifle their personal freedom, creativity, and autonomy by telling themselves they "can't" do things such as: take risks; make commitments; control their anger or fear; avoid intrusive thoughts; tolerate disappointment; accept challenges, make decisions, and more. This accessible workbook concisely explains how to identify, refute, and replace "I can't" with uplifting and liberating virtues. Worksheets include systematic exercises on coping with shame, rationalâemotive imagery, reframing, mindfulness, behavioral planning, and taking risks. Each chapter tackles a particular type of self-defeating "I can't" and is complete with an assessment inventory that helps users/clients identify which chapter/s they need to work on.
This workbook provides essential self-help for those struggling with disempowering thoughts and can also be used by mental health professionals in working with their clients.
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Overcoming Risk-Aversion
1. Goals of the Chapter
- Increase awareness of your risk-aversive thinking and the language you are using to obstruct taking reasonable risks.
- Refute this thinking.
- Identify guiding virtues that counteract your risk-aversive thinking.
- Identify empowering wisdom from great sages on how to seek these virtues.
- Use this learned counsel to construct a cognitive-behavioral plan for increasing your virtues.
- Work on your plan, including taking some reasonable risks.
2. The Nature of Risk-Aversive Thinking
- Engaging in behavior that opens you up to being rejected or negatively judged by others;
- Doing something that carries the possibility of making a serious mistake (for instance, on an important work assignment);
- Making a life decision that carries the possibility of ending up alone (for instance, as a result of ending a relationship or getting a divorce);
- Engaging in behavior in which you can lose something of value (money, friendship, a job);
- Making commitments that may not work out (such as starting an intimate relationship);
- Doing things that have a relatively small risk of dying or being seriously injured (such as air travel,;
- Putting yourself in a situation where others could possibly betray you, or otherwise not do their part;
- Trying new things or unchartered territory (such as dining out at a new restaurant, changing jobs, learning to play a musical instrument, or taking dancing lessons).
- If I get up in front of all those people to speak, I might mess up and
everyone might laugh at me.
So, it could be a fiasco!
So, I canât do it. - If I fly in a plane, it could crash and leave my children orphans.
So, flying could be a horrible mistake.
So, I just canât take such risks.1 - If I give her a (engagement) ring, what if the marriage doesnât work!
So, it could be a disaster!
So, I canât make this commitment. - If I divorce my (physically and emotionally abusive) husband, I might never find someone else and be alone for the rest of my life.
So, it could be a catastrophe!
So, I canât go through with it. - If I ask her to have sex with me, what if I canât have an erection!
So, I could make an ass out of myself.
So, I really canât do it. - If I ask her out, she might turn me down.
So, it could be devastating for me!
So, I canât ask her out! - If I tell her I have HIV, she will probably leave me.
So, telling her could be the worst mistake I could ever make.
So, I canât tell her. - If I eat out in restaurants, I could contract a disease from dirty dishes and die.
So eating out is a terrible idea!
So, I canât eat out.
- âfiascoâ
- âhorrible mistakeâ
- âdisasterâ
- âcatastropheâ
- âawfulâ
- âdevastatingâ
- âthe worst mistake I could ever makeâ
- âterrible idea.â
- I must be certain my actions will not have bad outcomes.
- But I am not certain doing this wonât have (such and such) bad outcomes.
- So, doing this could be a catastrophe.
- So, I canât do it.
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword for Therapists
- Preface for Users
- Introduction: Getting Started!
- 1 Overcoming Risk-Aversion
- 2 Overcoming Low Frustration Tolerance
- 3 Overcoming Low Anger Control
- 4 Overcoming Phobias
- 5 Overcoming Low Self-Reliance
- 6 Overcoming Your Obsessive Thinking
- Index