Customer Reviews

Clinician's Guide to Mind Over Mood

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What makes this book so useful is that it assists the therapist in effectively guiding the client as s/he follows the workbook in dealing with his/her mood disorder. It shows how best to employ the workbook in therapy, help the client set goals, and individualize the exercises. It demonstrates its application not only to individuals but also to groups, brief therapy, and inpatient settings. Under each situational category, it provides a session by session description of the book's integration with therapy. What many therapists may find a boon are sample client-therapist dialogues, tips on engaging clients and maintaining collaboration, troubleshooting guides, and assignment reminders. Because of its flexibility, this cognitive program can be tailored to a range of diagnoses.

ideal for therapists, but also helpful for patients if working through the workbook alone. enjoyed this book and everything about it!!

The Clinician's Guide is a useful companion to the Mind Over Mood workbook. The guide is especially helpful for graduate students and relatively new clinicians, if you are an experienced CBT clinician, this book is not essential, however, like most works there is good information to be gleaned here. Bottom line, the guide is helpful but not essential, simply going through the workbook yourself should provide you with enough practical experience to use the workbook effectively.

As a clinicians guide it is a bit simplistic - but good none the less.

I was so excited to get this book and then realized it was really advertising for the book clients are to use. If you flip through this book you will see on each page the authors site their book SO MANY TIMES.... we are educated people and they can't stop citing the book we are reading. Not very helpful sadly.

This book seems an afterthought to the self-help book, and a very poorly written and edited one at that.

There is little or no clinical wisdom here. One is left wondering how much client contact Padesky has.

It would be mind-numbing to use the book in real-life clinical practice... "turn to p 33... turn to p 45... turn to p 79..." .

Not recommended.

MECHANISTIC,BUT HELPFUL.IF YOU ARE DESPERATE,TRY IT.IT IS GUARANTEED NOT TO MAKE YOU WORSE,THOUGH IT MAY MAKE YOU BETTER.
NOT MUCH OF A BOOK,THOUGH...BUT HELPFUL...ITS OK...