How To Keep People From Pushing Your Buttons

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How To Keep People From Pushing Your Buttons

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ISBN: 9780806516707
author: Albert Ellis
publishing house: Citadel
publication date: 2003 -4
binding: Paperback
price: USD 12.00
number of pages: 220

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Hailed as the "grandfather of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, " Albert Ellis has helped millions of people modify their behavior and become happier, healthier individuals. In How to Keep People from Pushing Your Buttons, he provides readers with specific, realistic ways to keep people and events from setting them off or driving them crazy. Now everyone can learn how to react more effectively to antagonistic people and behavior by following Ellis's steps to successfully changing irrational thinking.Ellis and Lange also focus on the ways people defeat themselves by such negative thinking patterns as "awfulizing, " imposing "shoulds" on themselves and others, being excessively fearful, and overreacting. Readers can alter their own behavior by analyzing the irrational beliefs that people use to let others needlessly push their buttons such as: -- Worrying too much about what people think about them-- Trying too hard to please everyone-- Convincing themselves that it is not acceptable to fail at anything-- Worrying obsessively about upcoming events-- Avoiding difficult situations and responsibilities rather than facing themWith easy-to-follow instructions and enlightening advice, How to Keep People from Pushing Your Buttons is a classic in the field of stress-management that will enable readers to combat depression, frustration, and ineffective behavior.

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