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Title: Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger, Christine Padesky ISBN: 0-89862-128-3 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Pearl
Comment: Authors Greenberger and Padesky in their Prologue use the analogy of an oyster creating a pearl out of a grain of sand. In response to an irritation, the oyster encases the particle in a smooth, protective coating, thus providing itself both relief and a thing of value. So too this book will assist anyone with a mood disorder to create relief and their own emotional pearl.
This cognitive workbook helps the anxiety sufferer alleviate mood problems as well as reduce stress, solve problems, and improve self-esteem. It does this by helping the reader identify thoughts, moods, behaviors, and physiological reactions; test usefulness of those responses; and change thinking patterns which are ineffective or dysfunctional.
However, because there is less information on how cognitions, emotions, behaviors, and physiological reactions relate to anxiety or depression than might be useful for greater self-understanding, I think this good book is, in many instances, better as an adjunct to psychotherapy than as a strictly self-help vehicle.
Rating: 4
Summary: excellent introduction to CBT
Comment: I've used this workbook successfully as a therapist at a community mental health clinic serving poorer clients in Tucson AZ. I've used it in individual and group therapy. Frankly, I've found "Mind Over Mood" much more user-friendly than the more popular "Feeling Good Handbook" by David Burns, which contains similar cognitive therapy methods. The "thought record" chart, in particular--the heart of CBT--is more straightforward in Mind Over Mood. They've set up seven intuitive columns, from left to right. Burns's version of this chart, where each situation and emotion is listed separately at the top of the page, tends to confuse people, in my experience.
I really like the way Greenberger and Padesky put in little hint questions in small type at the bottom of the columns, to remind you what you're supposed to be doing without having to go back and read the text. And the book is full of terrific hint boxes which give you questions to ask yourself if you're having trouble understanding the exercises. I have not seen this anywhere else.
Defects? 1) This book doesn't contain the richness of material of the Burns or other CBT workbooks. The chapters on specific conditions at the end are pretty paltry. It's really just a very large book on how to do a thought record. 2) The authors limit evaluating automatic thoughts to "evidence for", "evidence against", and a "reasonable alternative". This rigid empirical model is not suited to everyone or every situation. Surprisingly, there is no discussion of or columns for "cognitive distortions" (Burns) or "disputes" (Ellis). This is a major defect, but one can work around it by expanding what is allowed in the "evidence against" columns.
Overall though, an excellent book for use in clinical settings with general mental health patients. I find myself pulling it out much more often than my other CBT books sitting next to it on my shelf. Once clients get the hang of cognitive therapy, I introduce more sophisticated material; but I haven't found a better starting point.
Rating: 5
Summary: THE number one cognitive therapy book!
Comment: If there was ever a book that could change your life, this is one of them. It's so practical, insightful, intelligent, and useful. It has had a big influence on myself, and on my outlook on life. I love the way the authors (Dr's Greenberger and Padesky) use complete and incomplete thought records to "teach" the reader how to do it for him/herself. It has truly been of great help to me in recognizing my own patterns of distorted thinking as well as the "alternative/balanced" thinking which has helped to improve my mood on several occasions. I consider it one of those rare gems that helps the reader to "see the light" (as a true friend would) without forcing it upon him/her.
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Title: Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood by Christine A. Padesky, Dennis Greenberger ISBN: 0898628210 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 11 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns ISBN: 0452281326 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Feeling Good : The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns ISBN: 0380810336 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 05 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond by Judith S. Beck ISBN: 0898628474 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 19 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior...and Feel Great Again by Jeffrey E. Young, Janet S. Klosko, Aaron T. Beck ISBN: 0452272041 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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