Mind Over Mood

Mind Over Mood is a client-facing CBT workbook that walks a person through identifying automatic thoughts, testing them against evidence, and building more accurate and helpful alternatives. Greenberger and Padesky structure the work around the seven-column Thought Record, then extend it into action plans, behavioural experiments, and skills for depression, anxiety, anger, guilt, and shame. The argument is direct: moods, physical reactions, and behaviour follow from how a situation is interpreted, and a person who learns to examine and revise those interpretations gains a durable way to shift how they feel.

For a clinician, the book gives structure that travels home between sessions. Each worksheet is reproducible, and the chapters can be assigned in sequence or matched to a presenting mood, so a client keeps practising the method rather than the therapist's presence.

The second edition added chapters on setting goals and maintaining progress, material on mindfulness, acceptance, and forgiveness, and twenty-five new worksheets.