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    Button Therapy: The Six-Step Button Therapy Method: How to Work on Your Buttons and the Button-Pushers in Your Life
    Button Therapy: The Six-Step Button Therapy Method: How to Work on Your Buttons and the Button-Pushers in Your Life
    Button Therapy: The Six-Step Button Therapy Method: How to Work on Your Buttons and the Button-Pushers in Your Life
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    Button Therapy: The Six-Step Button Therapy Method: How to Work on Your Buttons and the Button-Pushers in Your Life

    By Lloyd R. Goodwin Jr, PhD

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    The Six-Step Button Therapy Method briefly describes a practical six-step psychological self-help method and a holistic cognitive counseling tool for mental health professionals 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. Teach you the 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 The Six-Step Button Therapy Method combines a cognitive focus along with the emotional, behavioral, interpersonal, and spiritual aspects of personal growth and self-actualization.

    See also:
    The Button Therapy Book
    The Cognitive Self-Assessment Inventory
    Button Therapy: Set of Three BooksSAVE $3 US/$5 CDN by buying the complete set

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateFeb 26, 2007
    ISBN9781412244312
    Button Therapy: The Six-Step Button Therapy Method: How to Work on Your Buttons and the Button-Pushers in Your Life
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    Lloyd R. Goodwin Jr, PhD

    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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      Button Therapy - Lloyd R. Goodwin Jr, PhD

      THE SIX-STEP BUTTON THERAPY METHOD

      HOW TO WORK

      ON YOUR BUTTONS

      &

      THE BUTTON-PUSHERS IN YOUR LIFE

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      LLOYD R. GOODWIN, JR., PH.D.

      2002

      Trafford Publishing

      British Columbia, Canada

      © Copyright 2002 Lloyd Goodwin. All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      The Six-Step Button Therapy Method is a holistic cognitive counseling model for use by mental health professionals. It can also be utilized by relatively normal and mentally healthy people as a global psychological self-help method. The Six-Step Button Therapy Method is not an appropriate self-help method for individuals with cognitive impairments or moderate to severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia. This book is not meant to substitute for professional mental health care. Individuals with moderate to severe mental disorders should seek the services of a qualified mental health professional.

      Project Direction, Art Direction and Design:

      Alston Anderson, Anderson/Griffin, Atlanta, Georgia

      Illustration Credits

      Alston Anderson: cover

      Kristin Goodwin: pages 22, 36, 49, and 55

      National Library of Canada

      Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Goodwin, Lloyd R., 1944-

      The six-step button therapy method

      ISBN 1-55212-915-2

      ISBN 978-1-4122-4431-2 (ebook)

      1. Cognitive therapy—Popular works. I. Title. RC489.C63G668 2002   616.89’142   C2001-902850-4

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      This book was published on-demand in cooperation with Trafford Publishing.

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      Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      STEP ONE      AWARENESS OF STRESS AND DISTRESS:

      STEP TWO      BUTTONS:

      STEP THREE      EMOTIONS

      STEP 4      MOTIVATIONS

      STEP FIVE      BUTTON REMOVAL AND COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING

      STEP 6      AFFIRMATIONS AND

      CULTIVATING YOUR MIND’S GARDEN

      30 SEEDS FOR YOUR MIND’S GARDEN

      BUTTON-PUSHERS

      SOME COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT COGNITIVE INTERVENTIONS

      SUMMARY OF THE

      SIX-STEP BUTTON THERAPY METHOD

      SIX-STEP BUTTON THERAPY METHOD FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF-HELP

      OTHER BUTTON THERAPY MATERIALS

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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      INTRODUCTION

      THIS BOOK is a brief summary of the Six-Step Button Therapy Method that is more fully described in The Button Therapy Book: How to Work on Your Buttons and the Button-Pushers in Your Life by Lloyd R. Goodwin, Jr. Individuals utilizing this psychological self-help tool can use The Six-Step Button Therapy Method as a quick review of the six steps whenever they become distressed and want to work on the activated Buttons triggering their emotional distress. Mental health professionals may want to give a copy of this book to clients after they introduce a cognitive-behavioral intervention in a counseling session as a bibliotherapeutic resource.

      THE BUTTON THERAPY MODEL

      Button Therapy is a holistic six-step cognitive counseling and psychological self-help method to reduce emotional distress and related maladaptive behavior. Button Therapy can improve the quality of your inner experience, increase your happiness, inner peace, and facilitate your personal and spiritual growth. Button Therapy works primarily by utilizing a six-step psychological self-help method to modify or eliminate Buttons and other distortions in thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs. Button Therapy can help you become free from your Buttons that cause emotional distress in your life and help you become more aware, conscious, and loving. When used to facilitate consciousness growth, the Six-Step Button Therapy Method becomes an existential meditation-in-action technique that can be used while interacting in the marketplace of life.

      WHEN DO I USE BUTTON THERAPY?

      The Six-Step Button Therapy Method is a portable method of working on Buttons that

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