The Client's Guide to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: How to Live a Healthy, Happy Life...No Matter What!

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I found this book very helpful. It is filled with information that will help you re-work your life. But you will have to do the work and probably will need to work with a therapist. My psychologist made be buy this book. She is using it to work with me. It is really quite complex but I am glad she selected this book. She is a certified CBT trainer. I often think CBT does not look enough at the depth of our issues/lives but it does work if you follow it.

This book might be ok for someone who has never seen a therapist before. Our therapist used it for couples therapy for my husband and myself. I have had extensive therapy and found the book simplistic and annoying. My husband has never had therapy and it seemed to help him understand what areas of thinking therapy covers. Aside from that it did little for us.The introductory lists of goals, wants and feelings was far and away the most helpful thing in the book.Chapter 1 is full of misinformation and outright wrong statements about nutrition. The rest of the book has good information for people who are clueless about their minds.The book was exceptionally unhelpful in couple's therapy. The problem was longstanding irrational secrecy on my husband's part which eventually led to infidelity. The book did nothing to address his underlying issues or even to help him see them. On the other hand it was relentlessly triggering for me, greatly increasing my anger as he was not making any progress. I feel overall the book impeded our progress toward reconciliation which we have achieved by ignoring the book and our therapist.

A great self-counseling and self-help book, using clinically proven methods for improving your emotions!Your goal for your emotions explains Pucci, is "calm." People often mistakenly believe that the only goal for significant depression and anxiety is happiness, when in fact, the goal needs to be calm. Learning to feel calm in the midst of unfortunate events allows you to more often feel happiness and contentment when things are going well.I recommend beginning with Chapter 3, "Our Emotional ABC's." People mistakenly believe that A (Adverse events) directly cause C (Consequences of emotions, such as significant anxiety, anger, or depression). In fact, A (Adverse events) trigger B (Beliefs & self-talk) and B (Beliefs & self talk) primarily cause C (Consequences of Emotions such as depression, anxiety, anger, or your goal of Calm). When you learn the details of this essential fact and learn how to use ABC self-help methods, you will experience significant improvement in your emotions.I have taught the ABCs to my own children when they were growing up and I practice the ABCs of emotions in my life.A note to counselors - read this book and learn how to more easily present self-help methods to your clients in counseling sessions. This book is directly related to rational emotive behavior therapy and at [...] are listed over 500 outcome REBT research studies. All therapists want to accelerate therapy for their clients. Ask your clients to read, "The Client's Guide to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy" in order to accelerate your counseling and therapy.Lynn Clark, clinical psychologist and author of SOS Help For Emotions: Managing Anxiety Anger And Depression. In addition to reading Pucci's book, I have attended his excellent seminar on cognitive behavior therapy for mental health professionals.

I use this book with counseling clients to go along with formal therapy. I find that this book has great information in understanding what stops therapy from working and what you can do to help yourself feel better. Emotions and behaviors have a cause, but many people do not realize how to identify or change these causes. This book works best if you use it with a therapist until the method is well understood. Writing down painful situations is the core of what helps because you are rewiring your brain when you go through the worksheets. Eventually you won't have to write everything down once you challenge all the beliefs that contribute to pain. This book will not always work by itself because the mind can put up road blocks to some issues...which requires an objective therapist to help you past these common obstacles. I've personally and professionally grown from using the principles in this book. What do you have to lose?

Only skimmed through it so far but this book came highly recommended by my therapist and we are going to work through it together. It looks super helpful. 😌

I will take Puchi's version of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy over David Burn's works anyday of the week!