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Button Therapy: The Button Therapy Book: How to Work on Your Buttons and the Button-Pushers in Your Life -- a Practical Psychological Self-Help Book & Holistic Cognitive Counseling Manual for Mental Health Professionals
Button Therapy: The Button Therapy Book: How to Work on Your Buttons and the Button-Pushers in Your Life -- a Practical Psychological Self-Help Book & Holistic Cognitive Counseling Manual for Mental Health Professionals
Button Therapy: The Button Therapy Book: How to Work on Your Buttons and the Button-Pushers in Your Life -- a Practical Psychological Self-Help Book & Holistic Cognitive Counseling Manual for Mental Health Professionals
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Button Therapy: The Button Therapy Book: How to Work on Your Buttons and the Button-Pushers in Your Life -- a Practical Psychological Self-Help Book & Holistic Cognitive Counseling Manual for Mental Health Professionals

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The Button Therapy Book is a practical cognitive
counseling manual for mental health professionals
and a psychological self-help book designed to:


Help you identify, modify, and eliminate your Buttons that trigger
stress and distress in your life.
Help you identify potentially troublesome cognitions related to
your thinking styles such as "black and white thinking"; should
messages such as "I should do everything perfectly"; self-defeating
core beliefs such as "I am a victim of life's circumstances"; and
defense mechanisms such as denial and rationalization.
Includes the Cognitive Self-Assessment Inventory (CSAI) to help you
identify your troublesome cognitions and Buttons.
Includes the Motivational States Inventory (MSI) to help you
determine which of the six motivational states is associated with
your Buttons that get pushed.
Help you determine which of the "six centers of consciousness"
you are spending the most time in with the Centers of
Consciousness Rating Scale (CCRS) in the Motivational States
Inventory.
Teach you a portable Six-Step Button Therapy Method to utilize
anytime and anywhere you have a Button pushed which causes
emotional distress.
Help you become more conscious, aware, loving, and
compassionate.
Improve your interpersonal relationships.
Facilitate your journey of personal
and spiritual growth.

Early Acclaim for The Button Therapy Book



Improve Your Quality of Life and Parenting Skills
The Button Therapy Book has made an incredible difference in my attitude and my life. I am able to relax more and don't get as uptight or angry as I used to. I have always been a person who had my "Buttons pushed" fairly easily and now I understand how to identify my Buttons, address them in a calm and loving way and most importantly, get rid of them. I've also been able to take the information given in the book and pass it on to my children to help them overcome their "Buttons." Dr. Goodwin gives the reader all the tools they need to live happier, healthier lives, starting immediately! I highly recommend this book, it is a must for any person who is interested in improving his or her quality of life and getting rid of those buttons!
Jodie Wilkerson from Greenville, NC

Get Ready to Unbutton and Be Free!
Button Therapy, a 'MUST HAVE' for any mental health professional and/or the lay person. I have found many insights in this book and I have recommended it to just about everyone I know. I think that Dr. Goodwin has hit the 'button on the head', and has loosened it's thread with his insightful, caring explanation of our 'Buttons' and how to deal with them. I find myself referring to it regularly in my business. Thanks Lloyd, I am happier, my clients are happier and we all understand others and ourselves better now that we have read your book. We will all be looking forward to your next work!
Suzanne Osborne, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Forensic Psychologist, Criminal Profiler, Counselor from North Myrtle Beach, SC

A Model for Personal and Spiritual Growth
The Button Therapy Book is a creative synthesis of Eastern and Western models for personal and spiritual growth. An incredible compilation and synthesis of psychological self-help techniques. You would have to read 10 books to get the information and number of self-help techniques presented in this book. I've personally benefited from applying this practical six-step self-help model to some of my Buttons. The chapter titled "30 Seeds for Your Mind's Garden" is worth the price of this book alone. The "30 Seeds" are guidelines that have been helpful in my journey of personal and spiritual growth. Planting these "life-enhancing seeds" into the gardens of our minds enables us to become more conscious, aware, loving, and compassionate. This is simply the best psychological self-help book I've ever read. I've already recommended this book to my friends. An excellent read!
Patricia Pollard, M.P.A., Administrator from Health Sciences Personnel, Brody School of Medicine, East
LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 26, 2007
ISBN9781412244305
Button Therapy: The Button Therapy Book: How to Work on Your Buttons and the Button-Pushers in Your Life -- a Practical Psychological Self-Help Book & Holistic Cognitive Counseling Manual for Mental Health Professionals
Author

Lloyd R. Goodwin

Lloyd R. Goodwin, Jr., Ph.D., LPC, CRC-MAC is interim chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Studies. He is also director and professor in the Substance Abuse and Clinical Counseling program within the Department of Rehabilitation Studies, School of Allied Health Sciences at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He teaches graduate courses in clinical, substance abuse, and rehabilitation counseling. He has maintained a full or part-time private consulting and clinical counseling practice off and on since 1968. Dr. Goodwin initiated and helped develop the first national and North Carolina master's degree level certification in substance abuse counseling. Dr. Goodwin earned his Ph.D. in Counseling, Health and Rehabilitation, with a major in Rehabilitation Counseling from Florida State University in 1974. He has been on the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Assumption College, and Emporia State University prior to his current position at East Carolina University where he has been since 1989. He has worked in the counseling field for 33 years as either a clinical counselor or counselor educator. Dr. Goodwin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) with a specialty certification in addictions counseling (Masters Addictions Counselor; MAC). Dr. Goodwin is founder and a past-president of the national Professional Association of Rehabilitation Counselors (PARC).

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