Coping with Uncertainty: 10 Simple Solutions - Softcover

Eimer, Bruce; Torem, Moshe S.

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9781572242968: Coping with Uncertainty: 10 Simple Solutions

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ISBN 10: 1572242965 ISBN 13: 9781572242968

Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Inc, 2002

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In uncertain times, many people start to feel more vulnerable than usual. When changes, such as job loss or financial reversals, are coupled with threatening headlines and frightening news events, fear can make it difficult to enjoy, or even perform, ordinary activities. This timely guide offers ten quick and effective techniques for coping with feelings of helplessness and vulnerability. Using�a step-by-step approach, based on proven cognitive-behavioral principles, this book helps readers learn that uncertainty is temporary, accept change as a given, and feel safe and confident again. By focusing on overcoming the often unconscious inhibiting beliefs that underlie fear, readers learn to assess the real risks involved in daily living, end catastrophic thinking, relax mind and body, and stay flexible through uncertain times.

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In uncertain times, when personal difficulties get coupled with terrifying news events, a feeling of debilitating dread can prevent us from engaging in activities that involve even the mildest risk. This timely guide offers ten simple techniques based on proven cognitive-behavioral principles, that will help readers cope with feelings of vulnerability and begin to feel safe and confident again. Readers learn to realistically assess risks, end obsessive thinking, relax their mind and body, and stay flexible through uncertain times.

About the Author:

Bruce N. Eimer, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is a clinical psychologist and hypnotherapist with over fifteen years of experience treating people with cognitive-behavioural and self- help strategies. He currently works with patients dealing with anxiety and trauma in private practice in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. Moshe S. Torem, M.D., FAPA, is the medical director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine at the Akron General Health & Wellness Center in Akron, Ohio. Sylvester Johnson (foreword) is Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department.

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