The new edition of this highly regarded text will help you understand and apply the most appropriate psychological interventions and relaxation techniques for people experiencing anxiety, depression and psychological distress.
Easy to follow for healthcare professionals, students and the general public across a variety of settings. The text provides evidence-based techniques for addressing the person’s needs in a personalised manner, thereby achieving better outcomes. The range of strategies covered includes talking therapies, breathing techniques, mindfulness and physical activities.
The text has been edited by Dr Caroline Belchamber to incorporate a new section on application in practice, which covers COVID-19, long-term conditions, palliative, supportive and end of life care.
Key Features
- Comprehensive and easy to follow toolkit
- Relaxation techniques organised into somatic and cognitive approaches
- Application to practice
- Learning outcomes, key points, reflective activities and case studies in each chapter
- Easy scripts to follow with step by step guidance
- Three new chapters on COVID-19, palliative, supportive and end-of-life care, and long-term conditions
- Fully updated references and evidence-base
Section 1- Setting the Scene
1. States of Stress
2. The State of Relaxation
3. Preparing for relaxation
Section 2- Somatic Approaches to Relaxation
4. Breathing
5. Progressive Relaxation
6. Progressive Relaxation training
7. A tense release Script
8. Passive Muscular Relaxation
9. Applied Relaxation
10. Behavioral Relaxation Training
11. Differential Relaxation
12. Alexander Technique
13. Mitchell Method
14. Stretching
15. Physical activity
Section 3- Cognitive Approaches to relaxation
16. Cognitive-Behavioural Approaches
17. Self-Awareness
18. Imagery
19. Goal-DIrected Visualization
20. Autogenic Training
21. Meditation
22. Bensons Relaxation Technique
23. Mindfulness Based Mediation
24. Brief Relaxation Techniques
Section 4- Application in practice
25. Long-Term Conditions
26. Palliative, Supportive and end of life
27. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Section 5- Working towards best practice
28. Measurement
29. Evidence from Research
30. Combined Relaxation Techniques
Section 6- Appendix Glossary & Index
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
Glossary
31. Index
