The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression, Second Edition
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression offers a complete program for defeating depressive thinking and other symptoms of depression using cognitive behavioral therapy, a proven effective treatment protocol. This new edition includes new information on relapse prevention, revised worksheets and exercises, and vital information on depression coexisting with other mental health conditions. The entire workbook has been thoroughly updated with the latest depression research.
First, readers learn the basics for defeating the most damaging symptoms of depression and create a master plan for overcoming their condition. Later, readers discover the roots of their depression in depressive beliefs, worthlessness beliefs, and helplessness beliefs. The final section of this workbook helps readers anchor these positive changes for long-term relapse prevention and increased motivation.
Recommended by therapists nationwide, this second edition of The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression offers all the skills readers need to overcome depression with cognitive behavioral therapy.
First, readers learn the basics for defeating the most damaging symptoms of depression and create a master plan for overcoming their condition. Later, readers discover the roots of their depression in depressive beliefs, worthlessness beliefs, and helplessness beliefs. The final section of this workbook helps readers anchor these positive changes for long-term relapse prevention and increased motivation.
Recommended by therapists nationwide, this second edition of The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression offers all the skills readers need to overcome depression with cognitive behavioral therapy.
Reviews
I have waited for this book my entire career! With compassion, flexibility, and scientifically sound earnestness, Knaus helps the depressed reader navigate the wide variety of cognitive behavioral treatments to choose the package that is right for him or her. Second editions often contain few, if any, theoretical concepts and clinical exercises that are significantly different from those in the first edition. Not so with this volume! It is full of fresh ideas and therapeutic assignments that help the motivated depressed individual finally crawl out of self-defeating misery.
For anyone in the prison of depression, this workbook might help you get out. It's both scholarly and practical, and leaves no stone unturned in laying out self-help strategies for helping deal with this widespread problem.
William Knaus has been a leading practitioner and teacher of cognitive behavior therapy for over four decades. In The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression, he draws from his vast store of experience to provide people who struggle with depression practical, usable strategies they can put to immediate use to not only feel better, but to get better. Written in an engaging, accessible manner, the book is chock full of powerful tools that, when compiled into a personal action plan, can both defeat depression and build a happy, productive life. I think this is a substantial book anyone, not just the depressive, will find valuable, and I highly endorse it for both the lay public and the clinical community alike. I know that I will keep it handy for my own personal reference and repeatedly encourage my clients to purchase it.
