Description
Book SynopsisResilience: How to Thrive and Survive in Any Situation helps you to prepare for adversity by finding healthier ways of responding to stressful thoughts and feelings. You will learn a comprehensive toolkit of effective therapeutic strategies and techniques, drawing upon innovative mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches to cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), combined with elements of established psychological approaches to stress prevention and management. The book also draws upon classical Stoic philosophy to provide a wider context for resilience-building.
This book is a complete course in resilience training, covering everything from building long-term resilience by developing psychological flexibility, mindfulness and valued action, through specific behavioural skills such as applied relaxation, worry postponement, problem-solving, and assertiveness. Each chapter contains a self-assessment test, case study, practical exercises and reminder boxes and concludes
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Crammed with strategies and techniques to improve your psychological resilience. * Management Today *
Table of Contents
- 1.: Introduction: What is Resilience?
- 2.: Letting Go of Experiential Avoidance
- 3.: Values Clarification
- 4.: Commitment to Valued Action
- 5.: Acceptance and Defusion
- 6.: Mindfulness and the Present Moment
- 7.: Progressive Relaxation
- 8.: Applied Relaxation
- 9.: Worry Postponement
- 10.: Problem-Solving Skills
- 11.: Assertiveness and Social Skills
- 12.: Stoic Philosophy and Resilience
- : Bibliography
