ABC Relaxation Training: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals [Hardcover]

Jonathan C. Smith PhD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 19, 1999 | ISBN-10: 082611282X | ISBN-13: 978-0826112828 | Edition: 1

In this volume, Smith presents instructions for more approaches to relaxation than any other book on the market. The author provides word-for-word scripts for clinicians to teach them to implement all relaxation techniques using his ABC relaxation approach. The volume includes simple assessment questionnaires for determining relaxation needs and evaluating relaxation outcomes; precise instructions for making individualized relaxation tapes; and verbatim instructions for presenting tested "failproof" relaxation and stress management workshops.

Techniques include: progressive relaxation, autogenic training, self-hypnosis, breathing exercises, yoga, imagery / visualization, meditation, and prayer.

For clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, and trainers in the field of relaxation.

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About the Author

Jonathon C. Smith, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and founder and Director of the Roosevelt University Stress Institute. He has published numerous articles and 11 books on stress, relaxation, and mediation; and has taught stress management and relaxation to thousands of individuals, corporations, and clinics. Roosevelt University has granted Dr. Smith a Distinguished Professorship in order to conduct ABC relaxation research and develop the Stress Institute.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 328 pages
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (August 19, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 082611282X
• ISBN-13: 978-0826112828
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,402,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jonathan C. Smith PhD is an international expert on stress, relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness -- and more recently critical thinking and the paranormal. He is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Chicago's Roosevelt University, and Founding Director of the Roosevelt University Stress Institute (and the Pseudoscience and Paranormal Laboratory). The Institute has an extensive research program, online and classroom instruction, and Certificates in Relaxation, Meditation and Mindfulness Dr. Smith has published 17 books and more than three dozen articles, served as expert outside reviewer for six top psychological and medical journals, and published chapters as "guest expert" in eight textbooks and encyclopedias. His book publishers have included Aldine, Guilford Press, Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Plenum, Praeger, Prentice-Hall, Research Press, Springer, and Wiley/Blackwell. In addition, he has served as Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Roosevelt University for a decade and created Chicago's first university-based PsyD in Clinical Psychology. Under the leadership of subsequent Directors, this program has proudly earned a 7-year APA accreditation and is acclaimed nationwide for its focus on quality instruction, small classes, and rigor.

Author webpage:

http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/jsmith

Dr. Smith's primary research focus has been theoretical and clinical issues related to stress management, relaxation, meditation, and mindfulness. His work on critical thinking focuses on paranormic religiosity and extraordinary paranormal "claims of consequence." (He has been confirmed as a "Level 6.14 Psychic.")

Dr. Smith has taught thousands of students, clients, and health professionals and has served as consultant for government, business, educational, medical, and health organizations in the US, Canada, Australia, Spain, France, India, Germany, and the People's Republic of China.