Therapy Tools: Self-esteem

Therapy Tools: Self-esteem

The authors have based their self-esteem therapy on the assumption that people have not just one, but three ideas of themselves: ‘I-am’, ‘I-should’ and ‘I-wish’. Self-esteem problems can arise when there are discrepancies between these three self-images: ‘I am not the way I should be or how I would like to be’. Exercises and interventions have been devised based on this discrepancy. Their aims are:

• to correct the I-am, remove distortions and complete the patient’s self-image
• to disempower the I-should and to sort out its rules
• to illuminate the I-wish and to approach it step by step

This Therapy Tools volume is the first compilation of materials on the topic and contains around 150 worksheets and information sheets which can be incorporated into treating people who have problems with their self-esteem
• Self-esteem as a central and, at present, highly popular topic in psychotherapy
• First compilation of work materials on this topic
• In combination with the book for patients by the two authors

TARGET GROUP
Psychological and medical psychotherapists, psychotherapists in training, psychologists in counselling, coaching and social work