The Button Therapy Book

by Goodwin, Lloyd R.

• ISBN13: 9781552129142
• ISBN10: 1552129144
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub

Summary

The Button Therapy Book is a practical psychological self-help book and a holistic cognitive therapy manual for mental health professionals.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	ii
Acknowledgements	iii
Introduction	2	(2)
An eclectic cognitive counseling model
The term ``Button''
My prednisone book
A self-help cognitive counseling model
Holistic Cognitive counseling vs. cognitive-behavioral therapy
Personal growth and spiritual evolution
Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals	4	(19)
Holistic counseling
Cognitive counseling
Historical roots of cognitive counseling
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
Primary focus of cognitive-behavioral therapy
Cognitive therapy/counseling applications
Major differences between Button Therapy and other CBT models
Attachments vs. irrational beliefs
Spiritual dimension
Inclusion of a variety of cognitive interventions
Principles Underlying Button Therapy
When to use the Button Therapy intervention
Client criteria for utilizing Button Therapy
Empowering clients
How to integrate Button Therapy into the counseling session
The Button Therapy Model	23	(9)
A humanistic, transpersonal and holistic model
Humanistic
Transpersonal
Holistic
When do I use Button Therapy?
Definitions
Biocomputer
Buttons
Button-Pushers
Cognitions
Cognitive therapy/counseling
Troublesome cognitions
Six-Step Button Therapy Method
Sadhaks and Buttons
Awareness of Stress and Distress: Recognizing When Your Buttons Get Pushed	32	(4)
Listen to your body
The body's wisdom
Identify your feelings
Hard to control emotions
Acceptance-rejection continuum
Buttons	36	(4)
Identifying our Buttons being pushed
Identify the conflict of your desired model of how things should be versus what is
Types of Buttons
Distorted Styles of Thinking	40	(15)
Black and White Thinking
Blaming
Comparing
Catastrophic Thinking
Fair and Just Thinking
Mind Reading
Negativistic Thinking
Overgeneralizing
Pasting and Futuring
Should Thinking
Perfectionist Thinking
I'm ``Right'' and You're ``Wrong'' Thinking
Defense Mechanisms	55	(12)
Determining when we are using defense mechanisms
Assess your defense mechanisms
Which defense mechanisms do people tend to use?
Personality Traits and Disorders	67	(7)
Personality
Personality Disorders
Toxic and nourishing people
Can we change our personalities?
Core Beliefs	74	(8)
Self-defeating core beliefs
Parents: Our imperfect biocomputer programmers
Assess Your Cognitions	82	(4)
Cognitive Self-Assessment Inventory
Emotions	86	(13)
Identify, experience, release, and channel the emotional energy associated with your Buttons
What causes emotions?
Our emotional vs. rational minds
Mind - Body emotions
Molecules of emotion
The mobile brain
Gut feeling
Stress and the brain
Body/mind therapies
Can emotions precede thought?
Types of emotions
Emotional games
Anger
Boredom
Guilt
Emotional amperage
Welcome your feelings
Connecting the emotions to Buttons
Models of Motivational States	99	(7)
Transactional Analysis
Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy
Ken Keyes' Living Love System
Abraham Mashow's Hierarchy of Needs
The Seven Chakras in Yoga
Chakras
Malfunctioning chakras
Six motivational states in the Button Therapy Model
Determining your motivational states
Six Motivational States	106	(23)
Safety and security
Pleasure and sensation-seeking
Control and power
Love and acceptance
Personal growth and self-actualization
Spiritual and transcendental
In which motivational states do you spend the most time?
Motivational states and perception
Motivational states influence what we see
Activated Buttons affect perception
Multiple motivational states
With which motivational states are most of our Buttons associated?
Determining the motivational states associated with your Buttons
Button Power: The Constructive and Destructive Power of Buttons	129	(22)
The constructive power of Buttons
The destructive power of Buttons
My morality Button
The Moral Control Patrol
Consequences of the Moral Control Patrol to society
Our country's schizophrenic and hypocritical pleasure morality policies
Our morality laws (related to victimless crimes) make criminals out of otherwise law-abiding citizens
Overburdening our criminal justice system
Moral prohibition laws help make ``criminals'' rich
Wasting financial and manpower resources
Diversion of law enforcement resources from protecting citizens from real criminals
Corruption
Disrespect for the law and police
How the Moral Control Patrol maintains it control
``The times they are a changin''
Libertarian backlash
Moral rehabilitation
The five-step moral rehabilitation process
Moral rehabilitation in the criminal justice system
The Shadow
Button Removal and Cognitive Restructuring	151	(8)
Making a conscious choice to keep, modify, or eliminate your Buttons
Choosing to keep your Buttons
Stress Junkies
Smiling Sufferers
Low Self-Esteem
Magical Thinkers
``I have so many Buttons - I'm hopeless''
Games people play
Object games
A neutral game
Nonplayers
Metagames
Deciding whether to eliminate the Button or change it to a preference
Cognitive Interventions	159	(5)
Portable Self-Help Cognitive Interventions	164	(11)
Changing Demands to Preferences
Self-Talk
Disputing Troublesome Cognitions
Cognitive Thought-Stopping
Flooding
Counting to 10
Here-and-Now
Mad Director Fantasy
Empathy Doubler
Scheduled Cognitive Interventions	175	(10)
Empty-chair
Illustration of empty-chair work
The Worry Place
The Scheduled Pity-Pot Technique
Mind-Cleansing
Meditation
Cognitive Interventions That are Best Used in Conjunction with a Mental Health Professional	185	(17)
Injunctions and Redecision Work
Inner Child and Reparenting Work
Cosmic consciousness illumination
The wounded inner child
Inner child and reparenting
Reframing
Paradoxical Intention
Advocate for the opposite of what you want
Scheduling the target behavior you want to change
Hypnosis
Self-hypnosis
Group Button Therapy Empty-chair Technique
Group Button-Pull
Some Commonly asked Questions About Cognitive Interventions	202	(5)
``Can I use any of the cognitive interventions described in this book?''
``Can I combine cognitive interventions?''
``Do I have to use all six steps of the Six-Step Button Therapy Method every time I work on a Button?''
``How do I get rid of deeply rooted Buttons that don't want to be uprooted?''
``Does giving up my Buttons mean I have to give up my wants, desires, and goals and let the people run over me?''
Affirmations and Cultivating Your Mind's Garden	207	(10)
Cultivating New cognitions which Facilitate Your Becoming Happier and More Aware, Conscious, and Loving
Cultivating your mind's garden
Reprogramming your biocomputer
Suggestions for the cultivation of your mind
Planting new seeds
Affirmations
30 seeds for the garden of the mind
Daily cultivation of your mind
More resources for affirmations
Daily cultivation of the mind
The Spiritual Dimension	217	(26)
Distinction between Religion and Spirituality
Why include the spiritual dimension in a cognitive counseling and psychological self-help model?
The Button Therapy model is a holistic cognitive therapy model
Spirituality is an integral part of most people's lives
Spirituality and health
Do the medical and health insurance establishments support the inclusion of spirituality in health care?
The spiritual dimension in medical school and counselor education curricula
Summary
Button-Pushers	243	(5)
Reframing our Button-Pushers as our teachers
``Does this mean I should stay with the Button-Pushers in my life?''
The Six-Step Button Therapy Method: An Overview	248	(10)
ABE's MBA: A mnemonic device for remembering the six steps
Illustration of application of the Six-Step Button Therapy
Perfectionist thinking Button
Short-Cuts to the Six-Step Button Therapy Method
Spirit Warriors
Go forth and slay the Button dragons
Recommended Readings	258	(19)
Cognitive therapy
Emotional healing
Guide to self-help books
Holistic health and healing
Inner Child and Reparenting
Mind/body healing
Personality
Spiritual and personal growth
Hinduism
Buddhism
Christianity
New Age
Taoism
General
Stress Management
Transactional Analysis
Yoga and chakras
Appendix A: Cognitive Self-Assessment Inventory (CSAI)	277	(18)
Appendix B: Motivational States Inventory (MSI)	295	(9)
Appendix C: Study of Cognitions, Buttons, and Motivational States	304	(21)
Utilizing the Cognitive Self-Assessment Inventory (CSAI) and the Motivational States Inventory
References	325	(9)
Index	334	(5)
Other Button Therapy Materials	339	(2)
About the Author	341