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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., Ph.D.

65 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #01-0317; ISBN 1-55212-915-2; US$13.50, C$15.95, EUR11.00, £8.00

This book is a practical and psychological self-help approach utilizing the Six-Step Button Therapy Method, and is a companion book to the Button Therapy Book, providing a summary overview of the six steps.

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About the Book 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

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About the Author 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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Table of Contents

1 Introduction
The Button Therapy Model
When do I use Button Therapy?
Definitions
    Biocomputer
    Buttons
    Button-Pushers
    Cognitions
    Cognitive therapy/counseling
    Troublesome cognitions
Six-Step Button Therapy Method

Step One. Awareness of Stress and Distress: Recognizing When Your Buttons Get Pushed
Listen to your body
    Identify your feelings
        Biological etiology of emotions
    Acceptance-rejection continuum

Step Two. Buttons: Identify Your Buttons
    Identify the conflict between your desired model of how things should be versus what life is offering you
Types of Buttons
Assess Your Cognitions

Step Three. Emotions: Identifying, Experiencing, Releasing, and Channeling the Emotional Energy Associated with Your Buttons
Emotional amperage
Welcome your feelings
Connecting the emotions to the Buttons

Step Four. Motivations: Determining the Motivational States Associated with your Buttons
Six Motivational States in the Button Therapy model
    1. Safety and security
    2. Pleasure and sensation-seeking
    3. Control and power
    4. Love and acceptance
    5. Personal growth and self-actualization
    6. Spiritual and transcendental
In which motivational states do you spend the most time?
Determining the motivational states associated with your Buttons

Step Five. Button Removal and Cognitive Restructuring: Making conscious choices on Whether to keep, modify, or eliminate your Buttons
Cognitive Interventions
    Portable Self-Help Cognitive Interventions
    Scheduled Cognitive Interventions
    Cognitive Interventions that are Best Used in Conjunction with a Mental Health Professional
Changing demands to preferences

Step Six. Affirmations and Cultivating Your Mind's Garden Cultivating new cognitions which facilitate our becoming happier and more aware, conscious, and loving
    Planting new seeds
    Affirmations
30 "seeds" for the garden of your mind
Daily cultivation of the mind
The Spiritual Dimension

Button Pushers
Blaming the Button-Pushers
Our Primary Button-Pushers Know Us Best
Wherever You Go You Take Your Buttons with You
Reframing our Button-Pushers as our teachers
"Does this mean I should stay with the Button-Pushers in my life?"
Don't Make Major Life Decisions While Under the Influence of an Activated Button

Some Commonly Asked Questions About Cognitive Interventions
"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 to work on my Buttons?"
"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 People Run Over Me?"

Summary of the Six-Step Button Therapy Method
ABE's MBA: A mnemonic device to help remember the six steps Short-cuts to the Six-Step Button Therapy Method
You are Now Empowered to Eliminate Your Buttons and Cultivate Your Mind's Garden
Six-Step Button Therapy Method for Psychological Self-Help

Additional Button Therapy

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