Button Therapy

About the Book

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

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

The Cognitive Self-Assessment Inventory is designed to help identify core beliefs, "should messages", defense mechanisms, personality traits, thought distortions and Buttons (i.e. attachments or demands). The Cognitive Self-Assessment Inventory can be used by mental health professionals as a psychological assessment tool.

View the individual books:
The Button Therapy Book
The Six-Step Button Therapy Method
The Cognitive Self-Assessment Inventory

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).