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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Essential Strategies to Manage Negative Thoughts and Start Living Your Life
Break free from depression with these simple, effective CBT strategies
Discover the help you need to manage negative thought patterns and reconnect with those around you. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression delivers an easy-to-use toolbox that provides you with straightforward and actionable exercises. Learn how to reexamine the way you think and act so you can start creating positive change in your daily life.
Drawing on Dr. Monique Thompson's years of expertise using proven cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to help adults and teens face anxiety and depression, this compassionate guide teaches you essential skills and strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to achieve lasting results.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression
Get help managing your depression with cognitive behavioral therapy.
Discover the help you need to manage negative thought patterns and reconnect with those around you. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression delivers an easy-to-use toolbox that provides you with straightforward and actionable exercises. Learn how to reexamine the way you think and act so you can start creating positive change in your daily life.
Drawing on Dr. Monique Thompson's years of expertise using proven cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to help adults and teens face anxiety and depression, this compassionate guide teaches you essential skills and strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to achieve lasting results.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression
Get help managing your depression with cognitive behavioral therapy.
182 pages, Paperback
Published November 3, 2020
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November 18, 2020
Monique Thompson’s new book Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Essential Strategies to Manage Negative Thoughts and Start Living Your Life is not just for people experiencing episodes of depression. Anyone wanting to understand and use the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy will find much information clearly explained about this helpful therapy. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapy that “helps individuals identify goals that are most important to them and overcome obstacles that get in the way.” Later in her book Monique will devote a chapter on how to make SMART goals and then put them into action. For readers who want to learn more about this important subject than is included in Monique’s book, I enthusiastically recommend perhaps the best book ever written on this subject, How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life by Alan Lakein.
Concerning Depression, Monique tells us right at the beginning that people normally speak of depression as something we “feel or have.” In her book she emphasizes instead what she says is “a more accurate and empowering perspective: depression is something we do and therefore something we can make efforts to do differently.” On page 22 she gives readers a questionnaire which can be a scorecard to keep track of progress made in getting control over depressive episodes.
Monique suggests that readers begin by identifying their thoughts and then she shows how to think differently and provides strategies for changing internal beliefs. She helps readers connect with feelings and learn to deal with emotions. Learning to be mindful is an important aspect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I found her many suggestions on how to begin a meditation practice most helpful. In fact, from beginning to end I was impressed by her practical approach, not only for relieving depression, but also for lessening the anxiety and stress that most of us experience. Her book is clear, well-written, full of appropriate case studies and helpful examples, and suggestions for where to go for more information or perhaps counseling. As mentioned at the start of this review, readers don’t need to be depressed to find much valuable information about life and living in Monique Thompson’s fine book. Highly recommended.
Concerning Depression, Monique tells us right at the beginning that people normally speak of depression as something we “feel or have.” In her book she emphasizes instead what she says is “a more accurate and empowering perspective: depression is something we do and therefore something we can make efforts to do differently.” On page 22 she gives readers a questionnaire which can be a scorecard to keep track of progress made in getting control over depressive episodes.
Monique suggests that readers begin by identifying their thoughts and then she shows how to think differently and provides strategies for changing internal beliefs. She helps readers connect with feelings and learn to deal with emotions. Learning to be mindful is an important aspect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I found her many suggestions on how to begin a meditation practice most helpful. In fact, from beginning to end I was impressed by her practical approach, not only for relieving depression, but also for lessening the anxiety and stress that most of us experience. Her book is clear, well-written, full of appropriate case studies and helpful examples, and suggestions for where to go for more information or perhaps counseling. As mentioned at the start of this review, readers don’t need to be depressed to find much valuable information about life and living in Monique Thompson’s fine book. Highly recommended.
March 30, 2021
One of the hardest things to deal with in the midst of a depressive episode is reading something that might make you feel worse. Luckily, author Monique Thompson, PsyD, clearly understands that. She couches great information and practical exercises in a book that is a pleasure to read.
Thompson's prose is both matter of fact and kind, which is a difficult balance to walk. She explains how depression works (it's something we do, rather than something we "have" or "are"), and provides some practical examples and things to try. Cognitive behavioral therapy is her primary modality, with an emphasis on behavioral activation (doing things, even in only the smallest chunks). One of the examples she gives is a patient who needed to write a paper. Rather than making that the goal, the first one was to look at three sources in the library or on-line. If that was all the patient did that day, that was fine.
There is a well-curated list of other resources at the back of the book, including guided meditations and more. If you are experiencing a depressive episode, this book could be a real help.
Thompson's prose is both matter of fact and kind, which is a difficult balance to walk. She explains how depression works (it's something we do, rather than something we "have" or "are"), and provides some practical examples and things to try. Cognitive behavioral therapy is her primary modality, with an emphasis on behavioral activation (doing things, even in only the smallest chunks). One of the examples she gives is a patient who needed to write a paper. Rather than making that the goal, the first one was to look at three sources in the library or on-line. If that was all the patient did that day, that was fine.
There is a well-curated list of other resources at the back of the book, including guided meditations and more. If you are experiencing a depressive episode, this book could be a real help.
July 26, 2023
Not to be a replacement for actual therapy, but I found this to be a good manual for practical strategies to help me shift my thinking when I'm cycling on anxiety and fear.
January 19, 2025
The last book of 2024, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression, may not have been the most helpful to me personally, but I would recommend it to anyone with tendencies toward depression or complex psychological issues.
Avoid mind-reading, don’t overly trust your mind's “feelings” towards others or things, and don’t demand perfection. Learn to love yourself, accept yourself, and care for yourself. Stay true to yourself, and alwaysd seek help from others when needed.
Avoid mind-reading, don’t overly trust your mind's “feelings” towards others or things, and don’t demand perfection. Learn to love yourself, accept yourself, and care for yourself. Stay true to yourself, and alwaysd seek help from others when needed.
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