Build Your Resilience helps you to prepare for adversity by finding healthier ways of responding to stressful thoughts and feelings. You will learn a comprehensive toolkit of effective therapeutic strategies and techniques, drawing upon innovative "mindfulness and acceptance-based" approaches to cognitive-behavorial therapy (CBT), combined with elements of established psychological approaches to stress prevention and management. The book also draws upon classical Stoic philosophy to provide a wider context for resilience-building.
This book is a complete course in reliance training, covering everything from building long-term resilience by developing psychological flexibility, mindfulness and valued action, through specific behavioral skills such as applied relaxation, worry postponement, problem-solving, and assertiveness. Each chapter contains a self-assessment test, case study, practical exercises and reminder boxes and concludes with a reminder of the key points of the chapter and a round-up of what to expect i the next, which will whet your appetite for what's coming and how it relates to what you've just read.