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? 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
There are two versions of an MP3 recording in this post, containing an exercise for mindfulness and acceptance-based imaginal exposure therapy.
Continue readingThis is a short script for an audio recording of a mindfulness meditaiton exercise, incorporating elements of cognitive-behavioural exposure therapy.
Continue readingHandout for therapy clients describing the Attention Training Technique (ATT) used in Metacognitive Therapy (MCT) in detail.
Continue readingRecent 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 readingThis short article describes the “decatastrophising” strategy used in Beck’s cognitive therapy as a self-help technique for severe anxiety.
Continue readingBrief review of The Anxiety and Worry Workbook (2012) by Clark and Beck, the new self-help book for anxiety by the founder of cognitive therapy.
Continue readingThis brief article explores some well-established facts about psychological therapy that clients may not be familiar with.
Continue readingThis short article provides a basic “three-stage” self-help guide to one of the simplest CBT techniques for managing worry, the “stimulus control” method, which is the basis of more complex therapy approaches.
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