How Fragile is Worry?
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This short article lists a wide variety of brief cognitive-behavioural experiments that can be used to change your experience of worrying and to alter unhelpful attitudes toward it.
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Worksheet: Re-evaluating Coping Behaviour
Worksheet: Re-evaluating Coping Behaviour Copyright © Donald Robertson, 2012. All rights reserved. These questions are designed to help you re-evaluate and perhaps challenge your existing ways of coping when anxious, or dealing with similar problems. Feel free to skip questions … Continue reading
What’s the point checking things?
What’s the point checking things? Copyright © Donald Robertson, 2012. All rights reserved. One of the most common problems people report in relation to anxiety is the compulsion to check things excessively, e.g., checking that lights are turned off, emails … Continue reading
Excerpt from Build your Resilience (2012)
An excerpt from the new book Build your Resilience (2012) by Donald Robertson, discussing approaches to improving psychological resilience.
Continue readingMindfulness and Acceptance-based Exposure Therapy Recordings
There are two versions of an MP3 recording in this post, containing an exercise for mindfulness and acceptance-based imaginal exposure therapy.
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This is a short script for an audio recording of a mindfulness meditaiton exercise, incorporating elements of cognitive-behavioural exposure therapy.
Continue readingThe Attention Training Technique (ATT)
Handout for therapy clients describing the Attention Training Technique (ATT) used in Metacognitive Therapy (MCT) in detail.
Continue readingCBT for Intolerance of Uncertainty and Chronic Worry
Recent advances in the cognitive therapy of generalised anxiety disorder have focused on the role “intolerance of uncertainty” plays in triggering and maintaining chronic worry, this article provides a brief outline of the approach.
Continue readingInterview Anxiety: Some Basic Tips for Confidence-Building
Some self-help tips for overcoming social anxiety and building self-confidence in interview situations, based on a cognitive-behavioural approach.
Continue readingPositive Psychology & Resilience-Building
This post contains a chapter on positive psychology originally intended for my book Build your Resilience (2012), which was eventually replaced with other material. It may still be of interest in its own right as an alternative perspective on resilience training.
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