Need some help? The Aging Well Workbook for Anxiety & Depression (Julie Erickson and Neil A Rector)

#TheAgingWellWorkbook #NetGalley.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has become a very popular and effective form of mental health treatment. In this title, the authors, both psychologists, offer CBT help to those who are aging and, at the same time, struggling with anxiety and/or depression. The authors are positive practitioners and guides who offer hope to their readers, while noting that a workbook is not a substitute for face-to-face treatment.

This book is addressed to those who are over sixty. It is noted that issues may present in unique ways in this age group and that there are particular aspects to this life stage.

This title is well organized and clearly written with sections that explain what CBT is and what depression and anxiety can look like. There are then chapters on ways to effect change. To name just two, the authors look at goal setting and self-monitoring.

The authors suggest moving through this book slowly and completing the exercises. Take time, consider each suggested practice and, hopefully, begin to feel more on top of things. Along the way, learn the difference between thoughts, feelings and physical sensations and learn how to rejig some unhelpful patterns of thinking. It may just help!

Many thanks to NetGalley and New Harbinger Publications, Inc. for this title. All opinions are my own.

Pub date: 30 November 2023

Need some help? The Aging Well Workbook for Anxiety & Depression (Julie Erickson and Neil A Rector)

#TheAgingWellWorkbook #NetGalley.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has become a very popular and effective form of mental health treatment. In this title, the authors, both psychologists, offer CBT help to those who are aging and, at the same time, struggling with anxiety and/or depression. The authors are positive practitioners and guides who offer hope to their readers, while noting that a workbook is not a substitute for face-to-face treatment.

This book is addressed to those who are over sixty. It is noted that issues may present in unique ways in this age group and that there are particular aspects to this life stage.

This title is well organized and clearly written with sections that explain what CBT is and what depression and anxiety can look like. There are then chapters on ways to effect change. To name just two, the authors look at goal setting and self-monitoring.

The authors suggest moving through this book slowly and completing the exercises. Take time, consider each suggested practice and, hopefully, begin to feel more on top of things. Along the way, learn the difference between thoughts, feelings and physical sensations and learn how to rejig some unhelpful patterns of thinking. It may just help!

Many thanks to NetGalley and New Harbinger Publications, Inc. for this title. All opinions are my own.

Pub date: 30 November 2023

Now out: Crime Novels-Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1967

This title is not inexpensive but readers get five novels within this volume that comes in at over 900 pages so still pretty reasonable overall. The books that are included here reflect a transition in crime fiction away from the neater and less violent books of writers like Agatha Christie. Here, I would say, there is more gritty realism.

The general reader may well enjoy these stories. I think that anyone who wants to study mysteries in context and in an academic way will want to add this title to their collection as well.

Note: Books included are by Frederic Brown, Dan J. Marlowe, Charles Williams Dorothy B. Hughes and Richard Stark. Several of them are authors with whom I was not familiar.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Library of America for this title. All opinions are my own.