Personal Growth
The potential to be overwhelmed by life events and/or our own imperfect mental and physical makeup is ever present in all of us. Despite our vulnerabilities, though, not everyone gets depressed, even during truly hard times. Some people seem to cope better than others with life stresses, and they have taught us a great deal about the skills all people can learn to keep depression at bay.
The skills required to navigate oneself through the often stormy seas of life are not just absorbed magically from the atmosphere. For depressed people, or those at risk for depression, they are especially important skills to strive to learn and they are the very skills that Dr. Yapko teaches in his therapy sessions with clients. He has also made them available in various books and CDs, including those described on this website .
Dr. Yapko’s materials can be used as self-help aids to make it as easy as possible for all people to benefit from the explosion of great insights derived from research into the nature of depression and its effective treatments. Self-help is an essential part of overcoming depression, even when someone is already in therapy. Each person has to be responsible for learning and mastering the skills of managing themselves, whether it’s your food intake, getting adequate sleep and physical exercise, or managing your mood. Dr. Yapko’s materials can help you identify and learn those skills that can most make a positive change i n your mood and outlook – and your life.
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| Dr. Yapko's newest book, Depression is Contagious, will make its debut in late September. In this short video interview ( approximately 9 minutes) Dr. Yapko talks about why he's shining the spotlight on the social side of depression. | |
| Breaking the Patterns of Depression | |
 Look Inside! |
A comprehensive self-help book rich with information and perspective, teaches readers to enhance their understanding of depression and to personalize their own focused treatment. Readers are encouraged to take an active and experiential approach to helping themselves by using the nearly 100 'Learn by Doing' and 'Shifting Perspectives' structured exercises Dr. Yapko provides to develop the antidepressant life skills discussed in the text. This book is what self-help should be about. Click on the cover to read more or the title to purchase |
| Para Romper Los Patrones De La Depresion (Breaking the Patterns of Depression) | |
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An abridged Spanish version of the comprehensive self-help book rich with information and perspective, teaching readers to enhance their understanding of depression and to personalize their own focused treatment. Readers are encouraged to take an active and experiential approach to helping themselves by using the nearly 100 'Learn by Doing' and 'Shifting Perspectives' structured exercises Dr. Yapko provides to develop the antidepressant life skills discussed in the text. This book is what self-help should be about. Click on the cover to read more or the title to purchase |
| Hand-Me-Down-Blues | |
 Look Inside! |
Leads readers away from blaming their parents, themselves or their spouses for their depression.
Through the many case examples and inspiring stories, readers can learn specific skills to choose different and better responses to life challenges. |
CDs |
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| Calm Down: A Self-Help Program for Managing Anxiety | |
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Everyone gets anxious from time to time, of course. But, if you find yourself worrying too often, thinking too much about how things may go wrong, spinning around the same thoughts over and over, avoiding situations that cause you discomfort, or regularly feel you might not be able to cope with daily challenges without getting overwhelmed, then anxiety is likely to be a bigger part of your life than it needs to be. Calm Down! will help you manage – and even prevent – episodes of anxiety in your life. In Calm Down!, Dr. Yapko brings his substantial clinical expertise to teaching you many of the key skills that are known to reduce and even prevent anxious thoughts, feelings and behaviors. These are skills for identifying and correcting the thoughts ("What if…?") and perceptions ("I could never handle it if...") that lead to anxiety. |
| Focusing on Feeling Good | |
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This series teaches how to create feelings of comfort while building a positive and clear frame of mind. This program features seven different hyponosis sessions, each targeting a different syptom of depression, providing methods for overcoming depression and creating a new and healthy lifestyle. Available in CD format. |
| Enfocándose en Sentirse Bien | |
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Un Programa Experiencial Dirigido a La Construcción de Habilidades y al Auto-dominio, para Vencer la Depresión (Traducción y voz de Martha Eve Sandoval Walter)
Esta serie innovadora de sesiones de aprendizaje experiencial para vencer la depresión, involucra métodos hipnóticos para enfocar y relajarse. Manejar bien la depresión tiene que ver con poseer las herramientas apropiadas para la tarea y Enfocarse en Sentirse Bien proporciona lo esencial. Estos ejercicios de auto-dominio pueden ayudarle a pensar con mayor claridad, a construir un encuadre mental positivo y a emprender acciones sensatas y apropiadas y consiguientemente a alcanzar de una mejor manera sus objetivos específicos. Enfocarse en Sentirse Bien provee los pasos a seguir para Cada sesión práctica le proporciona primeramente una breve discusión de información relevante y de perspectivas sobre del tema en cuestión y luego todas las sesiones (excepto la panorámica inicial) contienen ejercicios para enfocar y ayudarle a involucrarse activamente en modos de pensar, de sentir y de comportarse positivamente. Los temas de las sesiones son los siguientes. |
| Managing Pain With Hypnosis | |
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This program provides two clinical hypnosis sessions designed to help reduce the suffering associated with painful conditions. In these two separate but related clinical sessions, the listener will be guided through the experience of hypnosis and taught the basic skills associated with hypnotic pain relief.
Hypnosis has repeatedly been shown to be one of the most reliable and least intrusive means for effectively managing physical pain, regardless of its cause. Hypnosis has been used as the principal or sole anesthetic in major surgical procedures, and pain clinics throughout the country routinely employ hypnosis and hypnotically derived methods in their interventions. |
| Sleeping Soundly | |
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Difficulty falling or staying asleep, or having non-rejuvenating sleep, is termed "insomnia." While there can be many different medical and emotional factors that can cause or exacerbate insomnia, one of the most common is the "spinning around and around" of anxiety-producing thoughts, a stressful pattern called "rumination." It is vital to achieving good quality sleep to reduce rumination by managing your thoughts and feelings skillfully. The hypnosis session contained on this CD can help you reduce rumination, fall and stay asleep more easily, and thereby develop good, restorative sleep.
This CD's first track provides an overview of insomnia and its relationship to the way you think and problem-solve. The second track provides a formal hypnosis session for you to listen to, experience, and learn from while developing the ability to sleep well. The hypnosis session is soothing, supportive, and provides an easy path to follow into a good night's sleep. |
