Kurzbeschreibung
Get rid of stress and life would be a bed of roses, right? Wrong. Some stress is essential to our survival and happiness. Without some degree of stress we'd all be dead. Learn how to recognize which forms are harmful and which are beneficial. This book identifies the practical skills needed for coping with whatever life throws at you.
Der Autor über sein Buch
A rational approach to stress management.In the rational, step-by-step manner that made his previous book, 'Choose to be Happy' a best-selling success, Wayne Froggatt applies the powerful methods of cognitive-behaviour therapy to one of the greatest afflictions of modern living - stress. Or, more accurately, distress. For not all forms of stress are harmful. In fact, some are positively beneficial and essential to our survival and happiness - in other words, goodstress.
We all want to feel good and avoid discomfort, to boost pleasure and reduce pain. Stress management is about handling life in ways that help us do this - that minimise distress and maximise goodstress.
Wayne Froggatt explains how to recognise and diagnose stress, provides a firm foundation for effective stress management, and formulates powerful strategies for making the most of whatever life throws at us.
Part One shows what stress is, how to recognise distress and its triggers, and why some people are predisposed to it. Part Two explains why many people learn stress management strategies but fail to use them - and how you can overcome these blocks using twelve rational principles and the techniques of rational effectiveness training. Part Three applies these rational principles and techniques to twelve strategies for managing stress:
· Goal-setting - knowing where you want to go. · Looking after your body. · Being able to relax your body and mind. · Overcoming sleep problems. · Maintaining a support system. · Acting assertively in your dealings with others. · Maintaining a stimulating life. · Managing time to achieve your goals. · Managing your financial and material resources. · Managing the changes in your life. · Problem-solving. · Being able to ask for help when needed.
GoodStress contains a chapter on stress management at work, an extensive index for self-study, with reading lists on stress management for both the lay reader and the professional helper, and - for the first time in a self-help book - a list of stress management resources on the internet.
The author is a professionally-qualified social worker who has been practising for 25 years, mainly in mental health counselling and psychotherapy. He has a long-held interest in the self-help possibilities of mental health education. As well as involvement with a community mental health team, he teaches cognitive-behaviour therapy at the Eastern Institute of Technology, has a private psychotherapy practice, and regularly travels to present training programmes to other professionals. With a growing international reputation, he is an Associate Fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute in New York, Executive Director of the New Zealand Centre for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, and an Associate Director of the British Centre for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (London).
