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`At last a practical workbook on self-management from a leading international psychologist illustrating the importance of self-analysis and the benefits to individuals of managing their own careers' - Derek Edwards, Managing Director of Sanders & Sidney
This book is a guide to using one's mind skillfully and creatively which focuses on how to manage oneself rather than other people. Among the thinking skills covered are setting realistic goals, visualizing problems, making accurate decisions, and preventing and managing crises. Fifty exercises are included.
List of contents
Creating Your Thinking
Creative Thinking
Learning How not to Think Creatively
The STCs of Creative Thinking
Own Responsibility for Choosing
Get in Touch with Feelings
Develop Coping Self-Talk
Choose Realistic Personal Rules
Perceive Accurately
Explain Cause Accurately
Predict Realistically
Set Realistic Goals
Develop Visualising Skills
Make Realistic Decisions
Prevent and Manage Problems
Keep Using Your Mind
About the author
Richard Nelson-Jones was born in London in 1936. Having spent five years in California as a Second World War refugee, he returned in the 1960s to obtain a Masters and Ph.D from Stanford University. In 1970, he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Aston to establish a Diploma in Counselling in Educational Settings, which started enrolling students in 1971. During the 1970s, he was helped by having three Fulbright Professors from the United States, each for a year, who both taught students and improved his skills. During this period he broadened out from a predominantly client-centred orientation to becoming much more cognitive-behavioural. He also wrote numerous articles and the first edition of what is now The Theory and Practice of Counselling and Therapy, which was published in 1982. In addition, he chaired the British Psychological Society′s Working Party on Counselling and, in1982, became the first chairperson of the BPS Counselling Psychology Section.
In 1984, he took up a position as a counselling and later counselling psychology trainer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he became an Associate Professor. He continued writing research articles, articles on professional issues and books, which were published in London and Sydney. As when he worked at Aston University, he also counselled clients to keep up his skills. In 1997, he retired from RMIT and moved to Chiang Mai in Thailand. There, as well as doing some counselling and teaching, he has continued as an author of counselling and counselling psychology textbooks. A British and Australian citizen, he now divides his time between Chiang Mai and London and regularly visits Australia.
Summary
A guide to using one's mind skillfully and creatively which focuses on how to manage oneself rather than other people. It covers thinking skills such as setting realistic goals, visualizing problems, making accurate decisions, and preventing and managing crises. It also includes fifty exercises.
