Synopses & Reviews
Review
"
Mind Over Mood and its companion piece...promise to be classics. No managed care report leaves my desk without a direct reference in the treatment plan to this outstanding set of manuals." --Bruce Webster, Ph.D. in
The Orange County Psychologist"Using the Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood with the client manual offers a winning combination. The manual is filled with helpful exercises and strategies for clients; the Clinician's Guide will assist the therapist in making the best use of the manual. If you are looking for ways to maximize client improvement and for a variety of beneficial homework tasks to use with your patients, this is it." --Simon H. Budman, Ph.D., Harvard Community Health Plan & Innovative Training Systems, Inc.
"The authors' Mind Over Mood was an excellent guide for clients. The Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood is truly an outstanding cognitive therapy resource for clinicians. The Clinician's Guide can help clinicians apply cognitive therapy to a wide array of problems and includes easy-to-follow guidelines." --John W. Santrock, Ph.D., Univ of Texas at Dallas
"In Mind Over Mood, Greenberger and Padesky produced an absolutely first-rate guide for patients who wanted to learn about cognitive therapy and how to use it to deal with their problems. In Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood, the authors have provided an invaluable guide for the clinician to accompany their patient workbook. The guide is clear, concise, and filled with clinical wisdom. It should prove to be a valuable resource for anyone who wants to work with other people and reflects the kind of creativity that keeps cognitive therapy vital and fresh as it matures as a discipline." --Steve Hollon, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Synopsis
This title has been replaced by The Clinician's Guide to CBT Using Mind Over Mood, Second Edition (ISBN 978-1-4625-4257-4).
Synopsis
If you'd like to assign Mind Over Mood to your clients, but aren't sure about how to incorporate it into practice, you'll find the answers you need in Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood. This essential book shows you how to introduce Mind Over Mood to your clients, integrate it with your in-session therapy work, increase client compliance in completing home assignments, and overcome common difficulties. Step-by-step instructions are provided on how to tailor the program to follow cognitive therapy treatment protocols for a range of diagnoses, including depression, anxiety, personality disorders, panic disorder, substance abuse, and complex, multiple problems. Also outlined are ways to pinpoint the development of specific cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills. The Clinician's Guide is richly illustrated with case examples and sample client-therapist dialogues in every chapter. Note: Mind Over Mood, Second Edition, is coming in October 2015, and the second edition of the Clinician's Guide will follow in 2016 with important new material.
Synopsis
The authors clearly demonstrate how to use Mind Over Mood with individuals, couples, and groups, both in session and at home. Brief therapy and inpatient settings are also discussed in detail. Step-by-step instructions are provided on how to tailor the program to follow cognitive therapy treatment protocols for a range of diagnoses, including depression, anxiety, personality disorders, panic disorder, substance abuse, and complex, multiple problems. Also outlined are ways to use Mind Over Mood to pinpoint the development of specific cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills. The volume is richly illustrated, with case examples and sample client-therapist dialogues in every chapter. Guidance is offered on how to review home exercises and worksheets in session and how to perform effective guided discovery. Creative ways for engaging clients who have negative reactions to a manual are described, as are strategies for maintaining collaboration with clients with personality disorders. Each chapter concludes with a "troubleshooting guide", which can be used to navigate impasses, and the book itself concludes with an informative chapter on therapist training and Mind Over Mood.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-269) and index.
About the Author
Christine A. Padesky, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, is Director of the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Huntington Beach, California, and Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. A graduate of Yale University and UCLA, she has used cognitive therapy since 1978 to help hundreds of clients overcome emotional difficulties and make life changes. Coauthor of five books and numerous articles, she is respected internationally as a gifted teacher, known for her innovative and clear explanations. In her own workshops and those co-taught with Aaron T. Beck, M.D., founder of cognitive therapy, Dr. Padesky has shown thousands of therapists how to use cognitive therapy more effectively with their clients.
Dennis Greenberger, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Director of the Anxiety and Depression Treatment Center in Santa Ana, California, is also a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine. In addition to his private practice, he leads cognitive therapy training workshops for health maintenance organizations; hospitals; and at local, state, national, and international conferences. he supervises residents and teaches cognitive therapy. Along with Dr. Padesky, he is coauthor of Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. How to Use Mind Over Mood in Therapy
2. Individualizing Mind Over Mood for Clients
3. Setting Therapy Goals
4. Using Mind Over Mood with Depression
5. Using Mind Over Mood with Anxiety
6. Mind Over Mood for Other Problems
7. Using Mind Over Mood with clients with Personality Disorders
8. Brief Therapy
9. Using Mind Over Mood with Groups
10. Using Mind Over Mood in Inpatient Settings
11. Therapist Training and Mind Over Mood