Coping with Uncertainty: 10 Simple Solutions

by Bruce Eimer

In uncertain times, many people start to feel more vulnerable than usual. When changes, such as job loss or financial reversals, are coupled with threatening headlines and frightening news events, fear can make it difficult to enjoy, or even perform, ordinary activities. This timely guide offers ten quick and effective techniques for coping with feelings of helplessness and vulnerability. Using·a step-by-step approach, based on proven cognitive-behavioral principles, this book helps readers learn that uncertainty is temporary, accept change as a given, and feel safe and confident again. By focusing on overcoming the often unconscious inhibiting beliefs that underlie fear, readers learn to assess the real risks involved in daily living, end catastrophic thinking, relax mind and body, and stay flexible through uncertain times.

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2002

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to read this for a presentation I am doing. This book seems to come mainly from a cognitive behavioral theoretical orientation. Each chapter has several suggestions for self-help type exercises. The chapters are pretty short and don't have much content other than the exercises, but the exercises themselves don't seem too bad...they mainly involve visualizing oneself being a successful coper or getting rid of old "baggage." Some people may find this book too basic or shallow.