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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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
CBT 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 readingDecatastrophising in Cognitive Therapy
This short article describes the “decatastrophising” strategy used in Beck’s cognitive therapy as a self-help technique for severe anxiety.
Continue readingCBT Self-Help for Managing Worry
This 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.
Continue readingStages in Applied Relaxation Training
Stages in Applied Relaxation Training Copyright © Donald Robertson, 2011. All rights reserved. This short article provides an overview of different stages and components in Progressive Relaxation (PR) and Applied Relaxation (AR) training. The assumption is that each stage of … Continue reading
Detached Mindfulness (DM)
This brief article outlines the technique of Detached Mindfulness used in Metacognitive Therapy (MCT) with some basic definitions and guidance on using this approach.
Continue readingWorry Postponement and Exposure
This short article describes how to use worry spotting, postponement, and exposure to reduce chronic worry and generalised anxiety.
Continue readingAppraising your Sense of Safety
This short form is used in conjunction with cognitive therapy to help modify beliefs about personal safety and address the sense of vulnerability common in stress and anxiety-related problems.
Continue readingProblem-Domain Analysis Form (Revised)
This is a short assessment form used to provide an overview of problems in different domains of life and focus on goals, obstacles, coping, and worry, in the most problematic areas.
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