This step-by-step, cognitive-behavioral program helps you break unwanted habits and replace them with healthy new ones. Together with extensive self-assessment and monitoring tools, it includes detailed guidance for overcoming a variety of specific habits.
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“The Habit Change Workbook is a wonderful book that will make life easier for many people. It provides effective, well-studied techniques to help readers change troublesome or hurtful habits—ranging from compulsive shopping to procrastination, from computer addiction to nail biting. The principles are explained in easy-to-understand ways with clear real-life examples that help guide the reader to adapt the techniques to his or her own life.”
—Michael Jenike, M.D., Director, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders Clinic and Research Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
“This excellent workbook covers a wide variety of bad habits with step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow and help clarify the nature and reasons for problem habits. Th examples are great and the chapters on motivation and tracking the habits are especially helpful. Intervention strategies are state of the art, and the authors are careful to translate them into practical and usable ways to change thoughts and actions. A very useful resource!”
—Gail Steketee, Ph.D., Professor, Boston University School of Social work
“In The Habit Change Workbook authors Claiborne and Pedrick offer powerful, scientifically proven strategies to take control of those nagging, annoying and unhealthy behaviors that plague all of us.”
—Bruce M. Hyman, Ph.D., OCD Resource Center of South Florida
“Habits, both good and bad, dominate more of our daily lives than we may realize. This book, using the latest cognitive-behavioral approaches, will clearly be of great value to all those with frustrating problem habits they would rather live without…it’s straightforward and jargon-free.”
—Fred Penzel, Ph.D., author, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete guide to Getting Well and Staying Well
“The Habit Change Workbook is a very comprehensive and highly readable guide that should appeal to anyone seriously desiring to change a problem habit. Anyone who follows this program will almost certainly achieve the goal of modifying their problem behavior. Here, for the first time, is an excellent self-help book that will provide to thousands of people who are caught in the throes of painful habits.”
—Ian Osborn, M.D., OCD specialist, University of New Mexico and author, Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals
“This manual offers hope for the millions who want to give up troublesome behaviors. It provides eminently sensible advice and detailed instructions about how to change. This is not an easy task for anyone, but for those who commit to change, this manual will provide necessary guidance. I urge therapists struggling to help others overcome their destructive habits to buy this book.”
—Donald W. Black, M.D., professor of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine
About the Author
James M. Claiborne, Ph.D., ABPP, is a licensed psychologist in private practice in New Hampshire, where he specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in counseling Psychology, a Fellow of the Academy of Counseling and Psychology, a Founding Fellow of the Academy of cognitive therapy, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation. He is also a member of the American Psychological Association and the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy.
Cherry Pedrick is a registered nurse and freelance writer in North Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1994 she was diagnosed with OCD, which began an intensive search for knowledge, effective treatment, and management of compulsive behaviors. She is also coauthor of The OCD Workbook: Your Guide to Breaking Free from obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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56 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
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A Personal Lifesaver!,
This review is from: The Habit Change Workbook: How to Break Bad Habits and Form Good Ones (Paperback)
I am the webowner of Mental Health Today.This excellent workbook will teach you how to deal with behaviors such as nail biting, skin picking, trichotillomania and addiction in regards to shopping, tv, internet, and gambling. Also focuses on changes in sleep habits, health & fitness, and relationship problems. They state the book can assist with obsessive compulsive disorder with further help. For chemical dependency issues, you are advised to seek professional help first and then use the workbook for overall lifestyle changes. This workbook could not have come at a better time for me. I've been working out for 6 months and out of the blue it is no longer fun and I'm now beginning to gently slide into my old workaholism pattern. I know that my old gym schedule needs to be changed and at the same time my work load at home has increased dramatically and I feel lost on how to organize my life and get myself motivated to get back to the gym and fight my workaholism. The workbook comes with just exactly what I need. Help in changing my thoughts and requires me to come up with a plan of action. For me, it has been a lifesaver and the timing could not have been more perfect. I recommend it!
37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
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Life changing,
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This review is from: The Habit Change Workbook: How to Break Bad Habits and Form Good Ones (Paperback)
In a manner that is informative yet accessible the authors of this book take the reader through a description of habits, how they're formed, why we seek to change them and how to go about making positive and lifelong changes. In facing my own struggles with procrastination I found the down to earth strategies to be extremely helpful. I would reccommend this book to anyone who seeks to overcome a problem habit.
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
If you're serious,
By Professional Mom "typical consumer" (Fort Myers, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Habit Change Workbook: How to Break Bad Habits and Form Good Ones (Paperback)
I don't know if I'm obsessive compulsive or not, but I have a few habits that I engage in that I believe cause me guilt and anxiety and that I cannot quite get a handle on. I first checked this book out at the library and found myself quickly wanting to photocopy most of the pages. So, ultimately, I bought the book.
The book is full of worksheets and record charts - it seems 50/50 in terms of lecture/practical application. If you are into that, fine. At first, that put me off. I didn't want to write that much stuff down. But when I got further into the nuts and bolts of changing the habit, the pages I wanted to copy became greater and greater because the ideas and exercises were so thought-provoking and led me to eye-openers and ideas of how to change my life that I couldn't seem to grasp before. I don't know if I'll use this system step-by-step, but the good thing about the book is that I believe it still works and is an invaluable tool for self-examination whether you follow it that way or not. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because the beginning was a bit tedious for an impatient self-starter like myself and to warn those who don't want to do any self-examination and just want a lecture to check this out at the library first. Otherwise, I really think that you cannot lose by having this book and I'm glad I'll have it in my library for years to come.
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Let's begin by agreeing on what we mean by a "habit." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
habit change program, habit change efforts, spending time gambling, leisure activity plan, possible competing responses, few more habits, sour habit, spending episodes, spending reduction plan, imagining achieving, goals last week, gambling thoughts, facilitating thoughts, skin picking, habit records, week set goals, problem with gambling, habit reversal, developing healthy habits, situational triggers, fitness habits, problem habit, automatic thoughts, whatever habits, problem gambling Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Habit Consequences, Gamblers Anonymous, Activity Steps, Absolute Ave, Distorted Thought Record, Habit Description, United States, Complete the Long-Term Goals, Plan Looking, Aaron Beck, Develop Long-Term Goals Choose, Revised Basic Belief, Feelings Social Support Rewards Chart New!
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Let's begin by agreeing on what we mean by a "habit." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
habit change program, habit change efforts, spending time gambling, leisure activity plan, possible competing responses, few more habits, sour habit, spending episodes, spending reduction plan, imagining achieving, goals last week, gambling thoughts, facilitating thoughts, skin picking, habit records, week set goals, problem with gambling, habit reversal, developing healthy habits, situational triggers, fitness habits, problem habit, automatic thoughts, whatever habits, problem gambling Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Habit Consequences, Gamblers Anonymous, Activity Steps, Absolute Ave, Distorted Thought Record, Habit Description, United States, Complete the Long-Term Goals, Plan Looking, Aaron Beck, Develop Long-Term Goals Choose, Revised Basic Belief, Feelings Social Support Rewards Chart New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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