Teach Yourself Build Your Resilience ─ How to Survive and Thrive in Any Situation

Face the world with resilience and live the life that you want
Resilience: How to Thrive and Survive in Any Situation helps you to break negative thought patterns and find healthier ways of thinking and behaving, by drawing on a series of effective strategies and therapeutic techniques. Author Donald Robertson explains how to use positive psychology, the concept of individual happiness, and traditional therapies like CBT to help you build a complete toolkit for dealing with challenging times. This book is a complete course in resilience training, covering everything from building resilience to specific problems to developing long-term strengths from mindfulness and positive thinking.
In each chapter you will find a diagnostic test, case studies, practical exercises, Aide Memoire boxes, as well as end-of-chapter key points and a round-up of what to expect in the next. You can monitor your progress and look forward to what's coming and how it relates to what you've just read.

Donald Robertson is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, specialising in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), clinical hypnosis, and other evidence-based approaches. He has been in practice as a therapist for over fifteen years and mainly treats clients with anxiety-related problems at his clinic in Harley Street, London. Donald is also an experienced trainer and workshop facilitator.

He is the author of dozens of articles in therapy journals and magazines and of the booksThe Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy and The Practice of Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy. He is also the editor ofThe Discovery of Hypnosis, the complete writings of James Braid, the founder of hypnotherapy.