Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns E-Book

Gitta Jacob

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Seitenzahl: 234

Beschreibung

Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns is the first schema-mode focused resource guide aimed at schema therapy patients and self-help readers seeking to understand and overcome negative patterns of thinking and behaviour. * Represents the first resource for general readers on the mode approach to schema therapy * Features a wealth of case studies that serve to clarify schemas and modes and illustrate techniques for overcoming dysfunctional modes and behavior patterns * Offers a series of exercises that readers can immediately apply to real-world challenges and emotional problems as well as the complex difficulties typically tackled with schema therapy * Includes original illustrations that demonstrate the modes and approaches in action, along with 20 self-help mode materials which are also available online * Written by authors closely associated with the development of schema therapy and the schema mode approach

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Preface

Credit for Images

1 Introduction

1.1 What Is Schema Therapy?

1.2 Understanding the Origin of Your Patterns

Part I: Become Familiar with Your Modes

2 Child Modes

2.1 Vulnerable Child Modes

2.2 Angry and Impulsive Child Modes

2.3 Happy Child Mode

2.4 Summary

3 Dysfunctional Parent Modes

3.1 Demanding Parent Modes

3.2 Guilt-Inducing Parent Modes

3.3 Punitive Parent Mode

3.4 Summary

4 Coping Modes

4.1 Compliant Surrender Mode

4.2 Avoidant Coping Mode

4.3 Overcompensatory Coping Mode

4.4 Summary

5 Healthy Adult Mode

5.1 How can I detect a Healthy Adult Mode in myself?

5.2 How can I detect a Healthy Adult Mode in others?

5.3 How can I distinguish the Healthy AdultMode from other modes?

5.4 Summary

Part II: Change Your Modes

6 Healing Vulnerable Child Modes

6.1 Get Acquainted with your Vulnerable Child Mode

6.2 Taking care of your Vulnerable Child Mode

7 Gaining Control over Angry and Impulsive Child Modes

7.1 Get Acquainted with your Angry or Impulsive Child Mode

7.2 Setting Limits to Angry or Impulsive Child Modes

8 Strengthen the Happy Child Mode

8.1 Get Acquainted with your Happy Child Mode

8.2 Exercises to Strengthen the Happy Child Mode

9 Setting Limits to Dysfunctional Parent Modes

9.1 Get in Touch with your Dysfunctional Parent Mode

9.2 Silence Dysfunctional Parent Modes

10 Changing Coping Modes

10.1 Get in Touch with your Coping Modes

10.2 Reducing Coping Modes

11 Promoting Your Healthy Adult Mode

Glossary

References and Further Reading

Index

Access to Companion Site

End User License Agreement

List of Tables

Chapter 02

Table 2.1 Naming Child Modes

Chapter 05

Table 5.1 An overview of Functional and Dysfunctional Modes

List of Illustrations

Chapter 02

Figure 2.1 Child Modes

Chapter 03

Figure 3.1 Demanding Parent Mode

Figure 3.2 Guilt-inducing Parent Mode

Figure 3.3 Punitive Parent Mode

Chapter 04

Figure 4.1 Surrendering

Figure 4.2 Avoidance

Figure 4.3 Overcompensation

Chapter 06

Figure 6.1 Healthy Adult – Happy Child

Chapter 07

Figure 7.1 Angry Child Mode

Chapter 08

Figure 8.1 Happy Child Mode

Chapter 09

Figure 9.1 Overcoming Parent Modes

Chapter 10

Figure 10.1 Reducing avoidance

Figure 10.2 Reducing overcompensation

Guide

Cover

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Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns

A Schema Therapy Self-Help and Support Book

Gitta Jacob, Hannie van Genderen and Laura Seebauer

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Preface

Are you familiar with the experience of negative thinking patterns keeping you from attaining your personal goals? With this book we want to help you understand yourself, your feelings, and your personal patterns better. Your negative thinking patterns are the “beaten track” which you have walked many times. If you want to find new ways, you should understand the origins of your beaten track and why you take it again and again. The first part of this book is all about understanding negative thinking patterns, and the related emotions and behaviors. In the second part we will explain in detail how you can change these patterns, if you consider a change necessary or reasonable.

We base our explanations on the so-called Schema Mode approach. This is the latest development in Schema Therapy, which was developed by Jeffery Young and colleagues in New York (2006) and is rapidly spreading around the globe. Many therapists are enthusiastic about schema therapy, as it integrates experiences and techniques from various therapeutic approaches very effectively. Not only thoughts but also feelings are taken into consideration, and current problems are of interest as well as their origin in childhood. This usually gives clients the impression of work being done on the “core” of their problems in an easy and understandable way. In work with schema modes, clients and therapists are at eye-level. Both parties are looking for better ways to meet clients’ needs.

In this book we try to go through the Schema Mode approach in an understandable way for anyone who is interested. We want to encourage you to change your patterns in such a way that negative feelings will weaken and positive feelings get more space in your life. To attain this goal, you will need to reduce disadvantageous coping strategies for negative feelings. You can use this book either as a self-help book or as assistance to a (Schema-) therapy. Psychological technical terms which may not be familiar to you are printed in bold and explained in the Glossary. You can download and print all worksheets from the book’s website (www.wiley.com\go\Jacob\breakingnegativethoughtpatterns). More detailed instructions are provided at the end of the book.

This book project is part of a long-standing cooperation and exchange program of the University of Freiburg (Germany), the Regionale Instelling voor Ambulante Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg (RIAGG) in Maastricht and the University of Maastricht (Netherlands). This cooperation, which offered us many interesting insights and common projects, has been a pleasure throughout its duration. We thank Darren Reed and his colleagues from Wiley Blackwell for their effective and committed support. Claudia Styrsky drew the wonderful cartoons in this book – we could not get enough of them! Last but not least we say thanks to our husbands and families for being so tolerant (again) to help us devote so many week-ends and so much precious free time to this project!

Hamburg, Maastricht und Freiburg, Autumn 2014

Gitta Jacob, Hannie van Genderen, Laura Seebauer