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by Anne Bodmer Lutz (Author), Cynthia Franklin (Foreword by)
You can heal without reliving painful emotions or revisiting traumatic events--there is a different path forward. With this workbook, you'll develop a strengths-based mindset, discover effective strategies for managing anxiety and depression, and take meaningful steps to enhance your mental well-being.
Depression often brings a sense of hopelessness, draining your energy and making even simple tasks feel overwhelming. Anxiety can create paralyzing worry, dread, and panic. If you've tried traditional therapeutic approaches and found that revisiting the past or focusing on painful memories left you feeling worse, you're not alone.
Embracing your strengths invites you to build resilience and move toward a more hopeful future. By tapping into your natural abilities and resources, you can find relief, grow, and create a life filled with greater meaning and joy. This strengths-based approach offers a positive way to navigate challenges while shaping a more fulfilling path forward.
The Solution-Focused Workbook for Anxiety and Depression offers practical, evidenced-based solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) tools with a uniquely positive focus to help you:
- Recognize your inherent strengths
- Draw on coping skills you already have
- Cultivate self-compassion
- Stay calm and collected in the moment
- Focus on creating a life of joy and hope
This workbook empowers you to harness your own strengths, guiding you toward improved mental health and a renewed sense of agency in your life. You'll also explore how nurturing hopeful and compassionate self-talk can help you regulate your emotions, foster positivity, and enrich your relationships. Most importantly, you'll learn to find peace in the present moment--even amid life's most stressful or difficult circumstances.
Author Biography
Anne Bodmer Lutz, MD, is executive director of the Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy, a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, and assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts. Mentored by solution-focused brief therapy founders Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer, she has spent more than three decades applying this approach across mental health, education, and beyond. Author of Learning Solution-Focused Therapy, Lutz trains professionals worldwide, helping them create meaningful change--one conversation at a time.
Foreword writer Cynthia Franklin, PhD, LCSW-S, LMFT, is director of external relations and Stiernberg/Spencer Family Professor in mental health in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin, courtesy professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, and editor in chief of Social Work.
