Coping with Life's Challenges - Moving On From Adversity (Paperback)

Life's challenges range from redundancy, relationship break-up and illness, to other people's disapproval, rejection and betrayal. You may initially respond to such events with shaken identity and insecurity, but that doesn't have to be the end of the story. Using techniques based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), this helpful book looks at how to surmount difficult but common adversities so that you can move on. Topics include; facing up to inherited tendencies and personal limitations, identifying and dealing with areas where you are not in control, living with uncertainty and loss, coping with job lodd, making healthy choices in relationships, dealing with failures, dealing with unfairness and injustice. Professor Windy Dryden says that while even the luckiest of us must sometimes face advertisity, we can learn to deal with difficult situations so that wan can go on living as healthily as we can.