Creating Well-Being
Four Steps to a Happier, Healthier Life
Published on 15. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
221 pages
978-1-4338-1573-7 (ISBN)
Description
Creating Well-Being presents scientifically-supported guidance for people who want to replace stress and painful emotions with a sense of well-being and contentment.
With empathy and unfailing good humor, Dr. Pamela Hays outlines a four-step process that has proven successful in her professional clinical psychology practice as well as in her own life. She invites readers to step onto the path of well-being by recognizing their stressors, avoiding negative thought-traps, re-examining their thinking, and taking action wherever possible, using environmental change, better communication skills, social support, and self-care.
Each chapter demonstrates how taking small, manageable steps adds up, over time, to real and permanent change. Packed with tips and tools for self-reflection and behavioral change, this book shows readers how to build well-being from the ground up.
With empathy and unfailing good humor, Dr. Pamela Hays outlines a four-step process that has proven successful in her professional clinical psychology practice as well as in her own life. She invites readers to step onto the path of well-being by recognizing their stressors, avoiding negative thought-traps, re-examining their thinking, and taking action wherever possible, using environmental change, better communication skills, social support, and self-care.
Each chapter demonstrates how taking small, manageable steps adds up, over time, to real and permanent change. Packed with tips and tools for self-reflection and behavioral change, this book shows readers how to build well-being from the ground up.
Reviews / Votes
In Creating Well-Being: Four Steps to a Happier, Healthier Life, clinical psychologist Pamela Hays draws upon her many years of experience and expertise to write this 224 page instruction manual that will enable the non-specialist general reader wanting to improve the quality of their emotional and social life through the implementation of four basic amp quot user friendly amp quot steps that begins with tapping into hidden strengths and qualities, a recognition of the impact stress has upon the mind-body relationship, how to counter negative thinking, and to take positive, effective action with respect to improving our behavior, self-care, and social interactions. Insightful, astute, practical, and accessible, Creating Well-Being: Four Steps to a Happier, Healthier Life is very strongly recommended reading for anyone seeking personal self-improvement and would make an enduringly popular addition to community library Self-Help instructional reference collections.(Midwest Book Review)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4338-1573-7 (9781433815737)
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Pamela A. Hays, PhD, is the author of Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy, and Connecting Across Cultures: The Helper's Toolkit. She is coeditor of the book Culturally Responsive Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. She holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Hawaii and from 987 to 988 served as a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. From 989 to 2 , she worked as a core faculty member of the graduate psychology program at Antioch University Seattle, where she continues to teach once a year as adjunct. Dr. Hays's research has included work with Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian people living in the United States and with Arab Muslim women living in North Africa. Since 2 , she has been back in her hometown of Soldotna, Alaska, working in private practice and as a supervisor for the Kenaitze Tribe's Nakenu Family Center in Kenai, Alaska.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Step : Stepping Onto the Path of Well-Being
Chapter : Finding Your Path
Chapter 2: Tapping Your Hidden Strengths
Step 2: Understanding Your Stressors
Chapter 3: How Stress Hurts
Chapter 4: The Mind amp ndash Body Connection
Chapter 5: Distinguishing Internal From External Sources of Stress
Step 3: Using Thoughts to Feel Better
Chapter : Thought Traps That Can Block Your Path
Chapter 7: Countering Negative Thinking
Chapter 8: Compassion Voice
Chapter 9: Well-Being Boosters
Step 4: Taking Action
Chapter : The Power of Thought and Action
Chapter : Create a Healthy Environment
Chapter 2: Learn and Practice Well-Being Behavior
Chapter 3: Assertiveness, Conflict Resolution, and Other Communication Skills
Chapter 4: Social Engagement, Meaning, and Purpose
Chapter 5: Self-Care for Staying on the Happy, Healthy Path
Afterword
References
Index
About the Author
Introduction
Step : Stepping Onto the Path of Well-Being
Chapter : Finding Your Path
Chapter 2: Tapping Your Hidden Strengths
Step 2: Understanding Your Stressors
Chapter 3: How Stress Hurts
Chapter 4: The Mind amp ndash Body Connection
Chapter 5: Distinguishing Internal From External Sources of Stress
Step 3: Using Thoughts to Feel Better
Chapter : Thought Traps That Can Block Your Path
Chapter 7: Countering Negative Thinking
Chapter 8: Compassion Voice
Chapter 9: Well-Being Boosters
Step 4: Taking Action
Chapter : The Power of Thought and Action
Chapter : Create a Healthy Environment
Chapter 2: Learn and Practice Well-Being Behavior
Chapter 3: Assertiveness, Conflict Resolution, and Other Communication Skills
Chapter 4: Social Engagement, Meaning, and Purpose
Chapter 5: Self-Care for Staying on the Happy, Healthy Path
Afterword
References
Index
About the Author