Dr. Monique Thompson’s newest book Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Essential Strategies to Manage Negative Thoughts and Start Living Your Life was released on November 3, 2020.
The book is designed to help people struggling with depression to discover the help they need to manage negative thought patterns and reconnect with their lives.
Editorial Reviews
Monique Thompson’s cogent and ultra-compelling book is simply the clearest, easiest-to-follow, and simultaneously deepest guide to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression I’ve ever read. Super-clear, with excellent clinical examples embedded in each chapter. Rather than learning high-level, abstract principles, the reader comes away with a real sense of what this evidence-based form of therapy looks like and feels like from the patient’s perspective. Highest recommendation–for clients, therapists-in-training, and the general public.
— Steven Hinshaw, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley; Professor of Psychiatry, UC San Francisco, Author Another Kind of Madness
“Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression is a terrific resource for anyone suffering with depression and for therapists working to help them. Dr. Monique Thompson presents the principles and skills of cognitive behavior therapy clearly and compassionately. I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone!”
―Michael A. Tompkins, PhD, Co-Director of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy and Author of Anxiety and Avoidance: A Universal Treatment for Anxiety, Panic, and Fear
“We find ourselves in complex and challenging times that can, for many, provoke an episode of depression. Fortunately, Monique Thompson’s Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression has arrived as a practical, accessible, and science-based guide to understanding and conquering depression. It is full of real-life examples of the thoughts, feelings, and actions that combine to produce depression as well as essential strategies for taking action against these forces. Readers will be able to apply the lessons and strategies to their own lives, thanks to the clarity and compassion in Thompson’s prose. Whether used as a stand-alone guide or as a complement to therapy, this book is bound to help scores of people who deal with the all-too-common experience of depression.”
―Ann M. Kring, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
“For those dealing with depression, personally or professionally, this is THE book to read! Beautifully written with clarity and precision, and grounded in empirically established methods, Monique Thompson provides a superb map and guidebook for navigating the terrain of depression and emerging in a much better place.”
―David E. Presti, Professor of Neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley and Author of Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey
“This book offers, in a deceptively small package, a large collection of strategies the reader can act on now to overcome pessimism, hopelessness, guilt, and lethargy in order to dig out of the black pit of depression and despair. The author’s wise advice is based on both her personal experience of depression and her professional experience doing research on depression and providing treatment for it. Dr. Thompson’s writing is clear and direct, and she speaks with a warm and compassionate voice that is simultaneously solidly grounded in the latest science.”
―Jacqueline B. Persons, Ph.D., Director, Oakland Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center, and Clinical Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
