Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Your Route out of Perfectionism, Self-Sabotage and Other Everyday Habits with CBT

by Avy Joseph

Overview

An intuitive and expert guide to some of the most effective techniques in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

In the newly revised fourth edition of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Your Route Out of Perfectionism, Self-Sabotage and Other Everyday Habits with CBT/REBT, accredited therapist Avy Joseph delivers an up-to-date exploration of proven cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) philosophy and techniques that work to improve your own life and the lives of others. Joseph explains how to challenge irrational, negative thoughts and unhealthy beliefs about yourself and your life. You'll learn to improve your outlook, mindset, and mood at home and at work. This latest edition of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy offers updated scenarios and exercises you can start using immediately, as well as:

• Discussions of the theory of the Multiplicity of Origins, a model explaining the development of unhealthy beliefs
• Understand that we have a biological predisposition to irrationality when something negative happens and how to use our free will to direct our mind to rationality and act constructively achieve our goals
• Step-by-step strategies to change our unhealthy beliefs and unhelpful behaviours that sabotage our goals in the real world, including methods for understanding the solution intellectually and transforming it into emotional understanding

A powerful and hands-on resource for everyone facing significant personal and professional challenges, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is a collection of evidence-based personal improvement techniques that also belongs in the libraries of CBT practitioners and therapists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781907312861
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/08/2025
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

AVY JOSEPH is an experienced Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and Director of the College of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies. He is a registered and accredited therapist with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).
Avy began working as a counsellor in 1992, developing and running workshops on relationship problems, phobias, panic disorders as well as goal achievement. It was when lecturing both nationally and internationally that his interest in evidence based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) grew. In 2001 he gained an MSc in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) from Goldsmiths College, University of London (one of the main schools of cognitive and behaviour therapies).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction to the Third Edition 1

1 Understanding CBT for Goal Achievement 5

2 The Four Belief Pairs 37

3 Setting Your Goals 69

4 Overcoming Obstacles to Goal Achievement 97

5 Developing Cognitive Skills through Your Internal Dialogue 121

6 Using Imagination and Visualization 139

7 Developing Resiliency 157

8 Taking Action and Responsibility 183

9 Accepting the Possibility of Failure and Disappointment 207

10 Developing a Healthy Philosophy of Balance 227

About the Author 247

Index 249