A quick stress disorder check list: This post helps you to evaluate known indicators of stress against how you feel, how you think and how you behave – Have a look at the table below (click the image to open an easy to read large image popup) – can you recognise yourself there? If your … Continue reading
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Newsletters collection: Cognitive Behavioural Training and Mind Map Training Dublin Ireland
Scroll below… and simply click on the images to open a new window for any of the following hi-res zoomable newsletters for corporate training, workshops, and private sessions. Some are old, some are new. Note: bespoke seminars and training can be put together for any psychological ‘brain training’ needs, call to discuss or to request a … Continue reading
A CBT look at anxious assessment versus calm assessment…
| An example to show that there are 4 strands to how we feel and what we do: It is thought that anxiety and depression causes a shift in thinking – taking away clarity, and instead hardwiring a distorted negative mental filter (cognition). This causes inappropriate upsettness, both emotional and physical, which in turn causes … Continue reading
He/she is just not that into you? Take advice from the CBT philosopher Epictetus:
Modern psychotherapy borrows from the great intellectual thinkers through the ages, and philosophers from the East and the West – and an acknowledged king in the evidence based psychotherapy world is the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus – the practical rational thinker and teacher, whose text The Enchiridion (or ‘Manual for Living’ as it’s more generally called in these modern ages), … Continue reading
The Vicious Circle Thought Form – a CBT worksheet/handout
The ‘Vicious Circle of Thinking, Feeling & Behaving’ Template When stress becomes a disorder, we experience a shift in thinking to a ‘Negative Automatic Thinking‘ style when we’re processing events and what’s happening around us – this kind of thinking leads to inappropriate levels of upsettness, which leads to self sabotaging behaviour – which adds … Continue reading
Apply the Albert Ellis ’12 irrational beliefs and disputing statements’ to your thinking…
Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency” ~ Albert Ellis, 1913 to 2007 This photo is Ellis with a patient circa 1940’s – (or it could be his receptionist hamming it up for the shoot). This post introduces you to Albert Ellis and his basic ‘guide to … Continue reading
CBT Dublin – Free Downloadable Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Worksheets/Handouts
Scroll down for PDF extracts from the CBTandFeelingGood.com workshops / workbooks – for you to use as a self-help resource. Note to therapists: © Veronica Walsh, no re-print or distribution without permission – but ask me if you’d like to use them with your clients, I bet I’ll say yes! (scroll down to make a … Continue reading