Coping with Change Workbook


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In today's society, many people find themselves living through multiple, extensive, often debilitating changes in their lives. Change manifests itself in many facets of a person's life including: workplace, health, home & family, and social network.Due to all of these changes, people are increasingly facing increased perpetual levels of stress. Although change has always been a part of the lives of human beings, the rate of this change is increasing exponentially. It is the speed of change that is increasing the stress in peoples' lives. Change is not going to stop and must be managed carefully. Coping with change is rapidly becoming a critical life skill that can be the difference between living a life of success or one of disappointment. The Coping with Change Workbook contains assessments and guided self-exploration activities that can be used with a variety of populations to help participants cope more effectively with the various forms of change. Each chapter of this workbook begins with an annotated Table of Contents with notes and examples for the facilitator. Each chapter contains two primary elements: 1) A set of assessments to help participants gather information about themselves in a focused situation, and 2) a set of guided self-exploration activities to help participants process information and learn more effective ways of behaving to cope with anxiety in their lives. The activities are divided into four chapters to help you identify and select assessments easily and quickly: Chapter 1: Types of Change – This chapter helps participants identify and explore the changes that are currently occurring in their lives, as well as identify and explore the changes they anticipate in the future.Chapter 2: Change Management – This chapter helps participants identify the life skills they possess in managing the change in their lives.Chapter 3: Ways to Cope with Change – This chapter helps participants to explore how well they are coping with change in their lives, and learn some techniques for enhancing their ability to cope with change.Chapter 4: My Attitude – This chapter helps participants explore their attitudes related to future change in their lives.All of the guided activities are fully reproducible for use with your clients/participants.




Helping Children to Cope with Change, Stress and Anxiety


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This book is full of creative ideas for use with children who have difficulty in coping with change, stress and normal levels of anxiety. Supported by a comprehensive but accessible theory section, the practical exercises are a simple and fun way of helping children to learn healthy stress management strategies. Deborah Plummer offers over 100 activities and games specifically aimed at helping children to build emotional resilience. With a mixture of short, snappy activities and longer guided visualizations, these exercises are suitable for use with individuals or groups, and many are appropriate for use with children with complex needs or speech and language difficulties. This unique photocopiable activity book will be an invaluable resource for parents, carers, teachers, therapists and anyone looking for creative, enjoyable ways of helping children to cope with change, stress and anxiety. It is primarily designed for use with individuals and groups of children aged 7-11, but the ideas can easily be adapted for both older and younger children and children with learning difficulties.




Keeping It Cool


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How to Survive Change You Didn't Ask For


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Life Changing Advice for Thriving in a Shifting World "…teaches us how we can get through the pain more quickly and extract greater meaning from the nonnegotiable events of life." —Ellyn Spragins, author of What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self Overwhelmed by life’s challenges? Exhausted by crisis after crisis in the world? Bestselling author M.J. Ryan’s How to Survive Change You Didn't Ask For is filled with advice and timely, relevant tips to help you cope, change your mindset, and ultimately thrive. Transform your mindset and find success. In today's tumultuous times, it's almost certain that you're grappling with unexpected changes—perhaps a life changing crisis like job loss or the shattering of a long-held dream. You might be surviving change at work or seeking a new place to call home. Esteemed bestselling author, renowned thought leader, and change expert M.J. Ryan returns with her powerful insights and strategies to guide you through the turbulence of change, regardless of its nature. Equip yourself with the tools to manage change. Change is seldom easy, especially when it arrives uninvited. However, within every moment of upheaval lies an opportunity for personal growth and a change for the better. Within the pages of her book, Ryan offers a comprehensive roadmap for preserving your mental acuity and enhancing your response to life's unpredictable shifts, one step at a time. With her expert guidance, your adaptability will flourish, bolstering your confidence and enabling you to not only survive but flourish in the uncertainty of life. Inside learn how to: Accept change Expand your options Strengthen your adaptability Take decisive action If you liked books about resilience such as Master of Change, Do Hard Things, or Curtis Bateman’s Change, you’ll love How to Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For.




Coping with Change


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Ecclesiastes; Topical book often overlooked. Face your changes with biblical guidance.




Coping Skills for a Stressful World


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This comprehensive counseling tool kit for stress management provides clinicians with hundreds of client exercises and activities. Representing a variety of therapeutic approaches, this workbook offers creative techniques for helping clients handle traditional concerns, including anxiety, depression, anger, and grief in addition to heightened present-day issues, such as natural and human-made disasters, the misuse of social media, political divisiveness, social injustice, and mass shootings and other violence. Drs. Muratori and Haynes give their personal and professional perspectives on successfully working with clients therapeutically and also invite a number of expert clinicians to share their experiences and exercises they have used that have been effective with clients. The final section of the workbook presents strategies for counselor self-care and client life after counseling. *Requests for digital versions from ACA can be found on www.wiley.com. *To purchase print copies, please visit the ACA website here. *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]




Mind Over Mood, Second Edition


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"This life changing book helps readers use cognitive-behavioral therapy - one of today's most effective forms of psychotherapy - to conquer depression, anxiety, panic attacks, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, eating disorders, substance abuse, and relationship problems. The second edition contains numerous new features : expanded content on anxiety ; chapters on setting personal goals and maintaining progress ; happiness rating scales ; gratitude journals ; innovative exercises focused on mindfulness, acceptance, and forgiveness; new worksheets ; and much more."--Publisher.




The Cognitive Behavioral Coping Skills Workbook for PTSD


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Written by a team of experts in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this workbook offers powerful, symptom-specific skills from a variety of empirically supported cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatments, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and—for the first time—cognitive processing therapy (CPT). PTSD is a debilitating condition that can leave you feeling numb, irritable, on guard, and distant. You may experience flashbacks and traumatic memories, suffer with sleep difficulties and nightmares, and struggle to manage intense emotions, impulses, and the desire to avoid closeness. But there has been rapid growth in the research and treatment of PTSD. This book combines the very best in proven-effective treatments to address specific symptoms, from the least disruptive to the most severe. Presenting tools drawn from a number of approaches and treatment models—such as ACT, DBT, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), exposure treatment, behavioral activation, imagery rehearsal therapy, and a highly effective, twelve-session cognitive processing therapy (CPT) program, The Cognitive Behavioral Coping Skills Workbook for PTSD can help you overcome the most common and most difficult challenges people with PTSD face. This practical guide is loaded with research-based skills from the most effective PTSD treatments available to help you manage your symptoms, reclaim your well-being, and maintain your recovery.




Coping with OCD


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When you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it can feel like your own mind is at war with itself. Instead of having productive and positive thoughts, you rehash the same worries and fears over and over again until they become unbearable. Did you really remember to lock the front door? What if you were to hit someone while driving your car? You may find yourself engaging in exhaustive rituals to keep these thoughts at bay. But soon, the doubts come back with a vengeance. Coping with OCD offers a simple and engaging program that can help anyone with mild to moderate OCD get started on the road to recovery. This book begins with a crash course on what OCD is-and what it is not. You'll learn a proven, three-part program for recovery that uses safe and gradual exposure to distressing thoughts and situations, mindfulness practice, and techniques to restructure thinking. Additional chapters address how families can help, dealing with shame and blame, depression, and maintaining progress. The book also includes a helpful list of resources for further reading and additional support.