Full Description
Resilience: How to Thrive and Survive in Any Situation helps you to prepare for adversity by finding healthier ways of responding to stressful thoughts and feelings. You will learn a comprehensive toolkit of effective therapeutic strategies and techniques, drawing upon innovative "mindfulness and acceptance-based" approaches to cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), combined with elements of established psychological approaches to stress prevention and management. The book also draws upon classical Stoic philosophy to provide a wider context for resilience-building.
This book is a complete course in resilience training, covering everything from building long-term resilience by developing psychological flexibility, mindfulness and valued action, through specific behavioural skills such as applied relaxation, worry postponement, problem-solving, and assertiveness. Each chapter contains a self-assessment test, case study, practical exercises and reminder boxes and concludes with a reminder of the key points of the chapter (Focus Points) and a round-up of what to expect in the next (Next Step), which will whet your appetite for what's coming and how it relates to what you've just read.
Contents
1.: Introduction: What is Resilience?
2.: Letting Go of Experiential Avoidance
3.: Values Clarification
4.: Commitment to Valued Action
5.: Acceptance and Defusion
6.: Mindfulness and the Present Moment
7.: Progressive Relaxation
8.: Applied Relaxation
9.: Worry Postponement
10.: Problem-Solving Skills
11.: Assertiveness and Social Skills
12.: Stoic Philosophy and Resilience
: Bibliography
