From Depression to Contentment: A Self-Therapy Guide

Bob Rich, Ph.D.
Loving Healing Press (2019)
ISBN 9781615994359
Reviewed by Rachel Dehning for Reader Views (6/20)

How we feel physically and mentally can make or break us. Dr. Bob Rich understands this and has the experience and expertise to solicit his advice unto our eager ears. In his book, “From Depression to Contentment: a Self-Therapy Guide,” Dr. Rich digs into the topic of depression and helps the reader make sense of this debilitating issue. “From Depression to Contentment” lives up to its promise by being very thorough in explaining every way in which depression can take hold of your life, and then teaches the reader how to take back control of their life to ease their symptoms. Dr. Rich’s book is a self-help book, providing the necessary information for the reader to be able to apply it to their own life in order to live a happier, more fulfilling life.

Everything about depression that Dr. Rich says in his book makes sense, is informationally correct, and can be easily done by any reader, as long as they are willing to put forth the effort. Anything that needs fixing in our lives requires some work, and depression is far from the exception. I appreciate how he covers the expanse of influence that depression has on a person’s life, but then also provides solid and attainable goals to work toward.

I also appreciate the extra resources through websites and book suggestions to add to our knowledge on this subject. He writes with a mostly positive and personal tone so that the reader can’t help but feel that they are sitting in his office, receiving his expert help in person. I say “mostly” above because the reader will find some of his personal beliefs interspersed in the text that might not be a shared opinion among everyone.

“From Depression to Contentment: a Self-Therapy Guide,” by Dr. Bob Rich should be known and read by everyone to help reduce the number of cases of depression around the world.

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Gentling: A Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children

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Breakthrough Treatment Offers New Hope for Recovery


Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition with 3 new chapters on adolescents

Gentling represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who have
experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder as a result. This text redefines PTSD in child abuse survivors by identifying
child-specific behavioral signs commonly seen, and offers a means to individualize
treatment and measure therapeutic outcomes through understanding each suffering
child's unique symptom profile. The practical and easily understood Gentling approaches
and techniques can be easily learned by clinicians, parents, foster parents, teachers and
all other care givers of these children to effect real and lasting healing. With this book,
you will:

Learn child-specific signs of PTSD in abused children

Learn how to manage the often intense reactivity seen in stress episodes

Gain the practical, gentle, and effective treatment tools that really help these children

Use the Child Stress Profile (CSP) to guide treatment and measure outcomes

Deploy handy 'Quick Teach Sheets' that can be copied and handed to foster parents,
teachers, and social workers


Clinicians Acclaim for Gentling


"In this world where children are often disenfranchised in trauma care--and all too
often treated with the same techniques as adults--Krill makes a compelling case for how
to adapt proven post-trauma treatment to the world of a child."

--Michele Rosenthal, HealMyPTSD.com


"Congratulations to Krill when he says that 'being gentle' cannot be over-emphasized
in work with the abused."
--Andrew D. Gibson, PhD
Author of Got an Angry Kid? Parenting Spike, A Seriously Difficult Child


"William Krill's book is greatly needed. PTSD is the most common aftermath of child
abuse and often domestic abuse as well. There is a critical scarcity of mental-health professionals
who know how to recognize child abuse, let alone treat it."

--Fr. Heyward B. Ewart, III, Ph.D., St. James the Elder Theological Seminary,
author of AM I BAD? Recovering From Abusew



Cover photo by W.A. Krill/ Fighting Chance Photography



Learn more at www.Gentling.org



From the New Horizons in Therapy Series at Loving Healing Press www.LovingHealing.com

Available in hardcover, trade paper, and eBook editions


FAM001010 Family & Relationships : Abuse - Child Abuse

PSY022040 Psychology : Psychopathology - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

FAM004000 Family & Relationships : Adoption & Fostering

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