Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Panic uses the proven and trusted five areas model of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help people experiencing a range of symptoms associated with these conditions. For the third edition, new workbooks are included on: medication, planning for the future and support recommendations for practitioners. * CBT workbooks- easy to use, practical, photocopy them * Expert advice from an award-winning author * Proven to work- through years of researchand practice * Step-by-step success- follow the plan, see positive results * Advice for friends and family to offer addtional support Invaluable, proven practical and easy to use workbooks for all CBT practitioners, occupational therapists and healthcare workers to use to help the people in their care help themselves. THE FIVE AREAS OF APPROACH: * Life situation, people and events around us * Altered thinking * Altered feelings or moods * Altered physical symptoms or sensations* Altered behaviour or activity levels LINKED, FREE ONLINE SUPPORT AT www.livinglifetothefull.com ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AT www.fiveareas.com Table of Contents Understanding why you feel as you do Tackling your anxiety: starting out (… and how to keep going if you feel stuck) Understanding worry and stress Understanding panic and phobias Understanding obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCD) Making changes Making changes to do with people and events around us How to start fixing problems and finding solutions (practical problem solving) How to ask for what you really need (being assertive) Learning to be calmer, less annoyed and less irritated Making changes in your life How to get a good night's sleep: overcoming anxiety and sleep problems Using exercise to overcome stress Things you do that worsen your anxiety (unhelpful behaviours) Stress, alcohol and drugs Facing fears and overcoming avoidance Understanding and overcoming shyness and social phobia Noticing and changing anxious thinking Understanding and overcoming feelings of depersonalization Overcoming anxious overbreathing (hyperventilation) Understanding and using anti-anxiety medication Planning for the future About the Author Professor Chris Williams BSc (Hons), MBCHB, MMedSc, MD, FRCPsych Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry and Honarary Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK |