Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- The journey continues -- About the author -- Part I Origins: "Stories" of a Personal and Professional Journey -- 1 At my mother's kitchen table: who are we, but the stories we tell? -- 2 Changing conceptions of cognitive behavior modification: retrospect and prospect -- Part II The Development and Implementation of Self-Instructional Training -- 3 Training schizophrenics to talk to themselves: a means of developing attentional controls -- 4 Training impulsive children to talk to themselves: a means of developing self-control -- 5 Teaching thinking: a cognitive behavioral perspective -- 6 The nature and nurture of the self-directed learner -- Part III The Development and Application of Stress Inoculation Training -- 7 Stress inoculation training: a preventative and treatment approach -- 8 Anger management -- 9 A cognitive-behavioral approach to pain management -- Part IV Trauma, Resilience and Recovery -- 10 Resilience and posttraumatic growth: a constructive narrative perspective -- 11 Bolstering resilience: benefiting from lessons learned -- Part V Core Tasks of Psychotherapy: What "Expert" Therapists Do -- 12 Core tasks of psychotherapy: what expert therapists do -- 13 The therapeutic relationship as a common factor: implications for trauma therapy -- Part VI Working with Suicidal Patients: Lessons Learned -- 14 35 years of working with suicidal patients: lessons learned -- 15 Every parent's worst nightmare -- Part VII A Look to the Future -- 16 Ways to improve political decision-making: negotiating errors to be avoided -- Index