Depressed and Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression & Anxietyby Thomas Marra |
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- Title:
Depressed and Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression & Anxiety
- Reading Level: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- No. of Pages: 254
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- Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
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- ISBN: 1572243635
- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 8.4 x 0.7 x 10.9
- Shipping Weight: 1.85
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Depressed and Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression & Anxiety Review
Source: Product DescriptionA revolutionary, proven-effective model that shows you how to:
· Identify symptoms of mixed anxiety and depression
· Cope with negative and painful emotions
· Calm your anxious mind
· Regulate dramatic mood shifts
· Learn how to soothe yourself
· energy and enthusiasm
Imagine feeling depressed and drained of energy and initiative while also being overwhelmed with feelings of dread and anxiety about the future. The consequence of this intolerable state of mind amounts to behavioral paralysis, a profound loss of control and quality of life. Therapist call this condition co-occuring depression and anxiety. Clinical research suggests that 60 percent of depression sufferers concurrently experience some kind of anxiety disorder. This book, the first written to general readers about this condition, uses the powerful techniques of dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, to help readers control both conditions.
DBT begins with the assumption that psychological problems are the result of feeling or emotional responses that are in conflict. It integrates a range of theraputic techniques to "tease apart" and resolve the competing internal needs and urges that generate anger, depression, and anxiety. By recognizing these conflicting emotions and forming new expectations, readers alleviate the symptoms generated by these conflicts. The book begins by having readers identify their most painful inner conflict. Then they develop compromises that acknowledge the issue but limit its ability to interfere with their lives—effectively reducing the extent to which their emotions govern who they are or what that are capable of. Exercises focus on assisting readers to become more responsive to uplifitng aspects of their enviroment and tolerant of unavoidable emotions.
Depressed and Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression & Anxiety Customer Reviews
Number of reviews: 21 Average Rating:A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2010-07-30 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Very Good
I'd gotten a crash course on DBT at a seminar, and needed more information. Well, you will get it here, without falling asleep. This book is not too dry, but informative.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-10-20 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, DBT In A Nutshell ~ Working It Through
Dr. Marra has spent years in private practice utilizing the tools of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to assist clients in overcoming depression and anxiety. His expertise is in every page. It is concise and clearly written and explains how anxiety and depression go hand in hand in our stressful lives along a continuum of being well. Working the workbook pages ensures the reader the capacity to understand the complexities of dialectics in behavior and how to observe our behavior without emotional disturbances that get "out of control" or aka emotional "dysregulation". Well written for the interested consumer of mental health services for empowering themselves in a world that feels topsy turvey with emotions going in two directions at once. I highly recommend this workbook.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-07-20 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, A Little More
What I like about this workbook is that it does offer a little more text and science and I like that cognitive aspect of it. Behavioral therapy feels like I'm trying to trick myself and feels more manipulative. If I know what behavior I'm trying to change, and here are some good ways to go about it, and then here's some things I can try in the heat of the moment, then it's a choice I am making. The cognitive approaches of behavioral therapy are what work for me. There are other simpler workbooks (and good too) for a different audience like Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-06-29 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Good Resource But Takes Committment
I have used this as a resource with clients. It takes a committment to complete the workbook and sometimes the explanations and examples are hard for them to understand. This has been more with people who still tend to be a little concrete. Has been helpful in teaching some of the dbt concepts and skills. I have had some who have used some of the exercises during high stress or crisis and have found it helpful. It is useful but not everyone is willing to do the work to learn and use the information covered.
A Fellow Amazon Customer Reviewed this title on: 2009-06-27 and rated it
0 Person found this review helpful, Excellent Book
I think this book is excellent. It takes a lot of fortitude and energy to do it but the results are well worth it.
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