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Change for the Better: Self-Help Through Practical Psychotherapy
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Sage Pubns Ltd
Publication date September 1, 2002
Pages 272
Binding Paperback
Edition 2
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780826461766
ISBN-10 082646176X
Dimensions 0.75 by 9 by 6 in.
Weight 0.90 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $44.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: `This is a helpful book and my experience is that patients who have read it mainly found it helpful. I can recommend Change for the Better to patients and therapists alike' - British Journal of Psychotherapy

`Change for the Better was the original self-help CAT book that has withstood the test of time.... It provides patients and quite a few therapists with an introduction to the basic principles of Cognitive Analytic Therapy in a readable and logically presented format. Unlike many self-help books, it manages the difficult task of making some quite complicated ideas easily accessible without becoming patronising or unduly trite.... I can recommend Change for the Better to patients and therapist alike. Its strengths far outweigh its limitations' - Dr Chess Denman, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Addenbroke's Hospital

`Many people with worries and sadnesses and the disabilities that go with will find in the book things that will enable them to relate to and use without the feeling that their problems or the advice they are given are weird' - Derek Steinberg, The Maudsley Hospital

This is a guide for real people living and struggling in real life, ordinary circumstances. . . it is full of humane, creative compassion for those who would like to change' - Counselling Psychology Review

Change for the Better is for everyone who has ever wanted to change, but has found that anything beyond superficial change is difficult. We may continue to feel stuck, helpless, and angry as old ways of thinking reassert themselves.

Presenting an easy-to-follow programme, this book helps to develop insights into the old patterns that govern our choices. It shows how to identify unhelpful patterns of behaviour and how to go about changing them in a realistic way.

Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9781412948258 Book cover for 9781446208144
 
4th edition from Sage Pubns Ltd (May 15, 2012)
9781446208144 | details & prices | 329 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.90 lbs | List price $135.00
3 edition from Sage Pubns Ltd (February 1, 2008)
9781412948258 | details & prices | 267 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.22 lbs | List price $104.00
About: This is the Third Edition of the best-selling self help psychotherapy program for lay people and students of psychotherapy since first publication in 1990.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780304335305 Book cover for 9780826461766 Book cover for 9781412948265 Book cover for 9781446208151
 
4th edition from Sage Pubns Ltd (May 15, 2012)
9781446208151 | details & prices | 329 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.60 lbs | List price $47.00
3 edition from Sage Pubns Ltd (February 1, 2008)
9781412948265 | details & prices | 267 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.94 lbs | List price $53.00
About: A practical guide for therapists and clients which describes in ordinary language how learned patterns of response contribute to psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, phobia, and relationship difficulty.
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2 edition from Sage Pubns Ltd (September 1, 2002)
9780826461766 | details & prices | 272 pages | 9.00 × 6.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $44.95
About: `This is a helpful book and my experience is that patients who have read it mainly found it helpful.
With Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch | 2nd edition from Continuum Intl Pub Group (March 1, 1996)
9780304335305 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $25.95
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