Visual CBT: Using Pictures to Help You Apply Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to Change Your Life
Avy Joseph and Maggie Chapman
PM rating: 4/5
Understanding our emotions is fundamental to being an effective individual, and in particular a manager or leader.
Joseph and Chapman have made an ambitious attempt to demonstrate how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – displayed in a visual way – can help us make sense of those emotions. Their visuals aim to illustrate how we think and what we tend to do, in addition to providing useful indicators to anyone who wants to use CBT to help them to improve the quality of their life.
Readers can use the book to improve the insights they have about their emotional states, and help them with numerous elements of personal development. Each chapter contains an introduction to its specific, title emotion, along with a checklist of triggers. Illustrations are then used to represent healthy and unhealthy cognitive consequences and actions, and highlight any tendencies that lead us to explore those particular emotions.
While full of useful and relevant material, it is difficult to envisage that many readers will have the discipline to do the book justice without assistance from others. A trigger for group therapy, perhaps?
Wiley, ISBN 978-0857083548
Professor Bruce Lloyd, London South Bank University