Do you ever feel like life seems to take extreme delight in brutally dealing with you as far as unfair outcomes? Do you struggle to sustain any sort of relationship in your life? Have you recently experienced an embarrassing emotional outburst that just seemingly happened for no particular reason? If you can relate to these scenarios, then you are not alone.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy made The 21 Days Step by Step Guide to Overcoming Depression, Anxiety, Anger and Negative Thoughts provides practical solutions for dealing with your emotions. As a result of each page, you will gain a deeper insight into who you are as an individual and why you probably act the way you do.
Inside this book you will
An in-depth analysis of anger, anxiety, depression, and negative thoughtsThe most effective methods used in cognitive behavioral therapySimple steps you can implement daily to transform your life in just 21 daysHow to control your emotions and subsequently take control of your lifeHow to be assertive without being aggressive in your relationships with othersA practical guide for living your best life nowand much more!Many books that talk about cognitive behavioral therapy tend to be overly clinical in their approach and esoteric in their methods. In turn, these types of “medical jumbo jumbo” makes it extra difficult for the average person to clearly understand the concept, much less internalize the message enough to apply it to practical use in his or her everyday life. This book brings your common emotional problems to the forefront. It then breaks down the solution that is cognitive behavioral therapy, which essentially is all about putting you in better control of your emotions.
To ensure that you get the most from this book, there is a step by step guide included in the book for daily application. Those steps will get you from where you are now to exactly where you want to be in the future. There is no magic to it. All that is required is a little effort from you, and it starts by you simply flipping to the next page.
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This book purports to be a 21-day step-by-step guide to help you with depression, anxiety, anger, and negative thoughts using cognitive behavioral therapy as a base. Unfortunately, the author doesn't seem to have an accurate understanding of what cognitive behavioral therapy actually is. According to Psychology Today, CBT “rests on the idea that thoughts and perceptions influence behavior,” and the CBT seeks to “treat problems and boost happiness by modifying dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and thoughts.” To that end, the aim of CBT is “to identify harmful thoughts, assess whether they are an accurate depiction of reality, and if they are not, employ strategies to challenge and overcome them.” So as the word cognitive in the title of the therapy suggests, CBT is about the accuracy of thought patterns and seeks to improve it if they are not.
If this book were genuinely based on CBT, the author would have the reader look at their thought patterns for accuracy (perhaps for problems the person believes exist) and then guide to more affirmative, better ways of thinking if needed. This is not the case. These brief articles that make up the 21-day guide seem to be a grab bag of techniques taken from modern pop psychology and self-help. They may or may not have any cognitive patterning basis. Some ideas he mentions could be helpful to a person trying to understand themselves better or reach a more balanced emotional state, perhaps, but I wouldn't call it cognitive behavioral therapy.
Unfortunately, the book was riddled with errors in grammar, punctuation, and usage. Semicolons and commas seemed little understood. Much of the phrasing uses false subjects (there is/there are) and impersonal passive expressions (it expressions that don’t refer to a specific noun). Both of these constructions make the writing more wordy and less direct, distancing writer from reader. Some sentences are quite long and convoluted. The book needed a good copyeditor and proofreader.
If you're looking for a book that will give you a quick, practical take on cognitive behavioral therapy, I suggest you look elsewhere. If you're looking for a simple collection of self-help tools, you might find this book of interest.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.