The CBT Toolbox: A Workbook for Clients and Clinicians

Jeff Riggenbach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936128306 ISBN 13: 9781936128303

Publisher: PESI, 2012

Theoretically sound, yet practical and easy-to-use, The CBT Toolbox guides you through evidence-based exercises to help navigate the road to recovery. For a client's use on their own or for use in a therapeutic setting, this book will teach how to overcome unhealthy life patterns, providing fresh and proven approaches to help:

- identify triggers for a variety of psychological problems
- create step by step plans to improve self-worth
- dismiss dysfunctional thinking
- track and monitor anger
- find calm in stressful situations
- break destructive patterns in toxic relationships
- defeat depression

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is the most empirically-supported form of treatment for a broad range of psychological problems. The CBT Toolbox is not a "one strategy first all" book. Rather, you will receive exercises that integrate research with practical application for specific symptom sets with the necessary depth to create meaningful change.

The CBT Toolbox will provide you with effective and easy-to-use tools for:

- Anxiety
- Depression
- Impulsive and Destructive Behaviors
- Problems Solving
- Toxic Relationships
- Stress Management
- and much more

Review:

"Using many clear clinical examples, Riggenbach moves easily between theory, conceptualization, treatment planning, and the application of CBT techniques. It is well-written, user-friendly, and filled with the information and ideas that can only come from an expert clinician." -- Arthur Freeman, EdD, ScD, ABPP "Executive Program Director of Clinical Psychology, Midwestern University"

"Clear, accessible and easy-to-read, this Workbook presents each problem in terms of the characteristic thinking patterns, feelings and behaviors of the client. Effective and practical tools including reproducible forms and handouts are provided to facilitate healing. Whether you are familiar or new to CBT, this workbook is highly recommended." -- John Ludgate, Ph.D "Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and author of Heal Yourself: A CBT Approach to Reducing Therapist Distress and Increasing Therapeutic Effectiveness"

About the Author:

Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D., LPC, trained at the Beck Institute of Cognitive Therapy and Research in Philadelphia, is a Diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and lectures nationally & internationally on topics related to cognitive therapy and personality dysfunction. He currently serves as the Director of Outpatient Services at Brookhaven Hospital in Tulsa where he oversees Mood and Anxiety Disorders Programs and Brookhaven's Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment Program. Dr. Riggenbach is well-known for bridging the gap between academia, research findings, and day-to-day clinical practice.