Help Yourself To Positive Mental Health

Howard Rosenthal, Joseph W. Hollis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781559590693
• eBook ISBN: 9781135059255
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology

This work reveals 50 simple ideas and concrete actitivities to improve anyone's mental well-being. Written in a conversational style, this resource provides techniques and specific suggestions to combat depression, fear, loneliness, anger, a poor self-image, undesirable habits, poor communication, relationship difficulties and other problems. Step-by-step, the authors show the reader the way to positive mental health. All 50 ideas are introduced in the same straightforward format: a basic idea is presented on the right-hand page and a concise, one-page explanation that defines the concept and how to implement it is shown on the left.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK
• HOW TO USE THIS BOOK TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW
• Help Yourself
• 1. Reward Yourself for doing the right thing
• 2. Reward Yourself with the Thing You Like … So You’ll do the Thing You don’t Like
• 3. Do Some Moderate Exercise (Nature’s Own Antidepresant)
• 4. Keep a Journal
• 5. Role-Play Difficult Situations with a Friend
• 6. Use a Behavioral Contract to Help Yourself or Others
• 7. Be Optimistic
• 8. Stop Describing Yourself with Negative Labels
• 9. Stop Blaming Others for Your Difficulties
• 10. When Everything Else Fails, Give Reverse Psychology a Try
• 11. Follow Through When you Make Promises to Others
• 12. To Reach Your Big Goals, Always Set Smaller Ones
• 13. Give Someone a Compliment
• 14. Act Successful
• 15. Use Negative Practice to rid Yourself of Common Mistakes
• 16. Take Time to Relax
• 17. Choose Present Moment Happiness
• 18. Make a List of Your Successes
• 19. Turn “You Statements” into “I Statements”
• 20. Stop Mind Reading and Start Asking People What They are Experiencing
• 21. Make a Chart to Reduce or Eliminate Unwanted Behaviors
• 22. Use Cost to Reduce or Eliminate Unwanted Behaviors
• 23. Relabel Difficulties
• 24. Help Yourself by Helping Others
• 25. Make Life More Exciting by doing Something Different
• 26. When You Believe You Can, You Can
• 27. Shake the Clay off Your Feet So You Can be Open to New Experiences
• 28. Identify One Thing You Can do Today That Will Boost Your Morale
• 29. Just Say “NO“ to Black-and-White Thinking
• 30. Risk Enough to let Someone Know How You Feel
• 31. Look in the Mirror and Smile
• 32. Acknowledge Your Feelings
• 33. Try Expressing Feelings Constructively
• 34. Complete a Task; Then Pause Long Enough to Feel the Satisfaction of Completion
• 35. Before You Judge Someone Else, Take a Walk in his or Her Shoes
• 36. Close Your Eyes, Pause for a Moment, and Look Deep Inside to See the “Real Me“
• 37. Tackle Fear by Taking Action
• 38. Share a Smile with Someone You Don’t Know
• 39. Help Yourself and Others by Being a Good Role Model
• 40. Write a Letter to Help Yourself Cope with Difficult Emotions
• 41. Look for the Good in Someone
• 42. Recognize That the Outside will Change When the Inside Does
• 43. To Change Your Feelings, do Something Different
• 44. Confront Difficult Situations by Use of the Five-Step Problem-Solving Method
• 45. Use Role Reversal to Take the Sting Out of a Nasty Argument
• 46. Tell Someone How Much You Like him or her
• 47. Spend Time Alone to Become More Comfortable with Yourself
• 48. Plug into the ABC System of Mental Health
• 49. Make a Decision to Change Even if You Don’t Know the Secret Reasons Behind Your Behavior
• 50. Accept and Follow Your Intuition
• About The Authors