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Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think
Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky’s Mind Over Mood is a cognitive behavioural workbook for readers working on their own or with a therapist. This record describes the second edition.
Book details
Author of listed edition: Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky
Edition: Second edition, paperback (2015); first edition published in 1995
Publisher: Guilford Press
Edition year: 2015
First published: 1995
Language and origin: English (United States)
ISBN: 9781462520428
Form and genre: Self-Help & Client Workbook
Level: Introductory
Historical era: 1980–2009 · Evidence-Based, Trauma & Integrative Era
Covers: Cognitive behavioural ideas about situations, thoughts and moods; Thought records and alternative ways of thinking; Action plans and behavioural experiments; Exercises on acceptance, gratitude and maintaining progress
APA 7th reference: Greenberger, D., & Padesky, C. A. (2015). Mind over mood: Change how you feel by changing the way you think (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.
What it is
Mind Over Mood is a cognitive behavioural workbook by Dennis Greenberger and Christine A. Padesky. The publisher identifies the paperback second edition as published in 2015 and its companion clinician’s guide as a second edition published in 2020.
What it covers
The workbook’s contents include identifying moods and thoughts, considering evidence, developing alternative thoughts, action plans and behavioural experiments. The publisher also describes exercises on mindfulness, acceptance and gratitude in the second edition.
Use and context
The publisher describes the workbook as a resource for readers working independently or with a therapist. A separate clinician’s guide discusses its use in individual, couple and group therapy. These descriptions do not establish what will help a particular person.
Limits of this entry
This entry draws on publisher descriptions, tables of contents and a bibliographic record. Neither the complete workbook nor the clinician’s guide was reviewed. It does not compare the book’s effectiveness with other resources or offer individual treatment advice.
Paired academic and clinical scholarship
Paired work: The Clinician’s Guide to CBT Using Mind Over Mood (2nd ed.) (Christine A. Padesky and Dennis Greenberger, 2020)
Reference: Padesky, C. A., & Greenberger, D. (2020). The clinician’s guide to CBT using Mind Over Mood (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.
A companion guide by Padesky with Greenberger describes ways clinicians can use the second edition in individual, couple and group therapy. The complete guide was not reviewed.
Source-mapped claims and evidence notes
Claim 1: The second edition includes chapters on automatic thoughts, evidence, alternative thinking and behavioural experiments. (Based on the publisher’s table of contents; the complete workbook was not reviewed.) [Source 1: Greenberger, D., & Padesky, C. A. Mind over mood: Change how you feel by changing the way you think (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.]
Sources and inspection notes
Supports: Publisher records second-edition authors, 2015 paperback ISBN and table of contents; the complete book was not reviewed.
Supports: Publisher identifies Padesky with Greenberger, 2020 publication, paperback ISBN 9781462542574, the guide’s scope and the 1995 first edition of the guide. The complete guide was not reviewed.
Google Books. Mind over mood, second edition. Bibliographic record.
Supports: Lists authors, 2015 publisher and paperback ISBN 9781462520428.
Guilford Press. Mind Over Mood: Prior editions.
Supports: Publisher lists the first edition with a 1995 copyright date.