Brilliant Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: How to use CBT to improve your mind and your life (Brilliant Lifeskills) - Softcover

Briers, Dr Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273724908 ISBN 13: 9780273724902

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2009

Synopsis

Brilliant CBT has been specially written to help give readers the insight, tools and confidence they need to understand and use CBT in their own lives. It offers a cohesive approach to this groundbreaking therapeutic technique that unfolds in a wholly logical, accessible and practical manner whilst enabling the reader to personalize the information and apply it to their own unique situation.

Written by an experienced and highly regarded clinical psychologist, Brilliant CBT has a conversational, accessible and personal tone which includes illustrative exercises, personality-style questionnaires and detailed checklists to provide all the information readers will need in a way they will find most simple and useful to put into practice.

Brilliant CBT is the perfect guide for anybody who wants an effective grounding in the theory and range of practical tips and strategies designed to help them achieve authentic, lasting results when applying CBT to their own lives, or for anybody training to become a CBT practioner who wants an accessible, understandable and thorough introduction to the therapy.

About this title

About the Author

Before training as a clinical psychologist, Dr Stephen Briers studied at Cambridge University, where he was later employed in child development research at the Winnicott Unit.

Today Stephen works clinically with both children and adults. His various television appearances include four series of the popular BBC parenting programmes Little Angels and Teen Angels and Make Me A Grown-Up for Channel 4.  He has also been a regular contributor to the Brain and Behaviour column in The Times Educational Supplement.

He lives and works in Brighton with his wife and two young sons.

From the Back Cover

CBT – what it is, how it works, and how to use it.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT delivers powerful tools you can put to work to dramatically improve your life.  

In this book psychologist Dr Stephen Briers clearly explains how CBT works, gives you plenty of exercises to help put the theory into practice and reveals it’s effectiveness through stories from people just like you, who have used CBT to turn their lives around.

 Brilliant Outcomes

• Understand what CBT is, it’s methods and models
• Put CBT to work to improve your mind and your life
• Build practical, step-by-step strategies for tackling any problem

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273724908
• ISBN 13: 9780273724902
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224