Keeping Your Head After Losing Your Job - How to survive unemployment

Zusatztext Leahy provides psychological tools to help you handle your unemployment! with simple strategies that can be used immediately Informationen zum Autor Robert L. Leahy (B.A.! M.S.! Ph.D.! Yale University)! Director of The American Institute for Cognitive Therapy! completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry! University of Pennsylvania Medical School under the direction of Dr Aaron Beck! the founder of cognitive therapy. Dr Leahy is the Past-President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies! Past-President of the International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapy! Past-President of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy! Director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy (NYC)! and Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell University Medical School. Dr Leahy is the Honorary Life-time President! New York City Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Association and a Distinguished Founding Fellow! Diplomate! of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He has received the Aaron T. Beck award for outstanding contributions in cognitive therapy. He is the author and editor of over 21 books! including The Worry Cure (Piatkus! 2006). Klappentext Losing your job is hard. It may well be the most difficult thing you have had to face. Your mental health! physical wellbeing! and of course your satisfaction with life! can all suffer. You may feel anxious! helpless and alone. So how do you cope with the emotional fallout! stay strong and turn this into a positive! productive time? That's what Keeping Your Head After Losing Your Job is all about. Dr Robert Leahy has worked with many unemployed people over the years and in this practical and supportive book he shares the strategies that have helped his clients deal with this most difficult of situations. He provides psychological tools to help you handle your period of unemployment better and plenty of simple! self-help strategies that can be used immediately. His successful techniques draw on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)! as well as practices such as mindfulness! to help you boost your self-esteem and confidence! decrease anxiety and feelings of helplessness! and develop resilience and strength. By keeping your head and learning how to deal with this time well! you can also learn how to live your life more effectively once you get a job. Unemployment is a time for new priorities and new meanings. This book will help you discover inner strengths and give you the skills to cope with life! whatever it may throw at you. This book is not a book on how to get a job or how to interview or how to write a resume. It is far more important. It is a book that helps the unemployed - and their families - cope more effectively during a difficult time. A self help book for people who often feel helpless - and forgotten. Zusammenfassung This book is not a book on how to get a job or how to interview or how to write a resume. It is far more important. It is a book that helps the unemployed - and their families - cope more effectively during a difficult time. A self help book for people who often feel helpless - and forgotten....

Product details

• Authors: Dr Robert L. Leahy, Robert L Leahy, Robert L. Leahy
• Publisher: Piatkus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2013
• EAN: 9780749958848
• ISBN: 978-0-7499-5884-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 232 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, SELF-HELP / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / General, Personal finance, Business & Economics / Personal Finance / Money Management, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, Business and Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / Job Hunting, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, SELF-HELP / Emotions, SELF-HELP / Mood Disorders / Depression, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Finance / Budgeting, Popular psychology, Business & management, Family & relationships, Advice on careers & achieving success, Coping with mental health issues, Job hunting / changing careers, Careers guidance, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Advice on careers and achieving success, Coping with depression and other mood disorders