Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a hugely popular self-help technique, which teaches you how to break free from destructive or negative behaviors and make positive changes to both your thoughts and your actions. This practical guide to managing anger with CBT will help you to understand your anger, identify solutions to your problems, and maintain your gains and avoid relapse.
This concise, user-friendly guide provides focused advice on defusing anger using proven CBT techniques. You’ll discover how to keep your anger under control and identify the negative thought processes that lead to angry outbursts.
Shows you how to use CBT to help you react positively to frustrating situations
Helps you learn to assert yourself effectively without losing your temper
Gives you tried-and-true CBT techniques to let go of unhealthy anger
If you’re struggling with anger management, Managing Anger with CBT For Dummies gives you the tools you need to keep your cool and live a happier, more balanced life.
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Don’t let anger rule your life – learn powerful, easy-to-use techniques for putting anger in its place
Do you worry that excessive or out-of-control anger is getting in the way of your happiness and success? Written by a Chartered Psychologist, this book arms you with a proven, NHS-approved Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach to nipping anger in the bud and getting on with your life. You’ll learn how to use focussed CBT techniques for understanding your anger and its sources, identifying ‘trigger situations’ that lead to excessive or out-of-control anger, and for replacing angry, destructive patterns of thought and behaviour with positive, constructive ones.
Understand what anger really is – get the lowdown on this very primal emotion and why you experience it, and learn the difference between useful anger and anger run wild
Manage your anger – learn proven CBT techniques to help you become more aware of your negative angry behaviour, and enable you to make the changes you need for a happier life
Keep your cool – get comfortable in your new skin, avoid falling back into your old, angry habits, and find out how to get support if you feel yourself slipping
Open the book and find:
What CBT is and why it works
How to be objective about your anger
Guidance on identifying the situations that trigger anger
Powerful techniques for reprogramming your angry thinking
Tips for avoiding relapse
Where to go for support
How to deal with anger from other people
From the Back Cover
Don’t let anger rule your life – learn powerful, easy-to-use techniques for putting anger in its place
Do you worry that excessive or out-of-control anger is getting in the way of your happiness and success? Written by a Chartered Psychologist, this book arms you with a proven, NHS-approved Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach to nipping anger in the bud and getting on with your life. You’ll learn how to use focussed CBT techniques for understanding your anger and its sources, identifying ‘trigger situations’ that lead to excessive or out-of-control anger, and for replacing angry, destructive patterns of thought and behaviour with positive, constructive ones.
Understand what anger really is – get the lowdown on this very primal emotion and why you experience it, and learn the difference between useful anger and anger run wild
Manage your anger – learn proven CBT techniques to help you become more aware of your negative angry behaviour, and enable you to make the changes you need for a happier life
Keep your cool – get comfortable in your new skin, avoid falling back into your old, angry habits, and find out how to get support if you feel yourself slipping
Open the book and find:
What CBT is and why it works
How to be objective about your anger
Guidance on identifying the situations that trigger anger
Powerful techniques for reprogramming your angry thinking
Tips for avoiding relapse
Where to go for support
How to deal with anger from other people
About the Author
Gill Bloxham is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She teaches university courses to a variety of charity organisations, such as MIND, and to non-health agencies, including the police and local government.
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