The Book Depository Compassion Focused Therapy For Dummies by Mary Welford
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Description: Compassion Focused Therapy For Dummies : Paperback : John Wiley & Sons Inc : 9781119078623 : 1119078628 : 08 Aug 2016 : Don't be so hard on yourself use compassion focused therapy as your guide It's often said that we're our own worst critics and it's true. Compassion Focused Therapy For Dummies offers straightforward and practical advice that helps you view yourself through a more sympathetic lens.
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Product ID: 9781119078623
MPN: 1119078628
GTIN: 9781119078623
Author: Gary Brown
Rating: 5
Review: A very good book for.self help and for experienced clinicians. Mary Wellford is very good so I’m not surprised having attended one of her training days. I’m an accredited CBT therapist so I hopefully know what I’m talking about.
Author: Tyke
Rating: 3
Review: It wouldn’t be fair to say that this book has nothing to offer, but neither does it seem fair to say that it doesn’t suffer from a bit of pink and fluffy. The author’s genuine desire to help is evident and commendable and in itself is worth 5 stars, but in her attempt to make the subject approachable she falls into the trap of too much caution wrapped around her advice (as if she’s trying to cover every base or trying to avoid future litigation) and she makes too many friendly asides with exclamation marks, rather like one finds in children’s books. Like many similar therapists, she frequently suggests that the reader should draw on some emotional experience related to children or work which infers that she has no structure to offer for those who have no experience of the former and are not involved in the latter. In fairness, these are suggestions and not instructions so the reader ultimately will have to find something in their own experience which equates – if they have anything which will fit. The therapy can’t be used by reference only to individual chapters, as the author says it will in her introduction, because it’s a bit to-and-fro. In one chapter she will present a certain exercise but part of it requires procedures which are only to be found in later chapters, so it’s necessary to read the whole book first. There were a few catastrophic typo’s and the grammar and syntax is a bit wearing, because it follows the style which infests all media today – incorrect and too frequent use of ‘hopefully’, ‘amazingly’ ‘incredibly’ etc. Ultimately it will depend on the individual as to how much they will benefit from this book. This is the first ‘Dummies’ book I’ve read and am therefore surprised to read that some feel it isn’t as ‘dummy’ as others in the series. For me, it was terribly dumbed-down and didn’t engage my attention as an adult-to-adult book should. It’s certainly a sincere attempt but if you like your advice presented in a more grown-up way, maybe this will disappoint.