Keeping Your Head After Losing Job

This book is not a book on how to get a job or how to interview or how to write a resume. It is far more important. It is a book that helps the unemployed - and their families - cope more effectively during a difficult time. A self help book for people who often feel helpless - and forgotten. Losing your job is hard. It may well be the most difficult thing you have had to face. Your mental health, physical wellbeing, and of course your satisfaction with life, can all suffer. You may feel anxious, helpless and alone. So how do you cope with the emotional fallout, stay strong and turn this into a positive, productive time? That's what Keeping Your Head After Losing Your Job is all about.Dr Robert Leahy has worked with many unemployed people over the years and in this practical and supportive book he shares the strategies that have helped his clients deal with this most difficult of situations. He provides psychological tools to help you handle your period of unemployment better and plenty of simple, self-help strategies that can be used immediately. His successful techniques draw on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), as well as practices such as mindfulness, to help you boost your self-esteem and confidence, decrease anxiety and feelings of helplessness, and develop resilience and strength. By keeping your head and learning how to deal with this time well, you can also learn how to live your life more effectively once you get a job.Unemployment is a time for new priorities and new meanings. This book will help you discover inner strengths and give you the skills to cope with life, whatever it may throw at you. Although the current economic crisis creates a sense of urgency, we have always had and will always have a large number of people who are unemployed. For many, it is the most difficult time that they have ever faced. Without help, the unemployed face an increased risk of binge drinking, depression, anxiety and suicide. For many, there is a decreased quality of mental health, life satisfaction and objective physical wellbeing. Most feel alone and helpless.Dr Robert Leahy has worked with many unemployed people over the years, examining the psychological consequences of unemployment and exploring ways to help people cope with the emotional fallout of losing their job. This book gives readers psychological tools to handle their period of unemployment and simple, self-help strategies that can be used immediately to help them feel better and act better. The book draws on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as well as practices such as mindfulness to help readers boost their self-esteem and confidence, decrease anxiety and feelings of helplessness, and develop resiliance and strength going forward.

This book is not a book on how to get a job or how to interview or how to write a resume. It is far more important. It is a book that helps the unemployed - and their families - cope more effectively during a difficult time. A self help book for people who often feel helpless - and forgotten.