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
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.
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These are my notes from a recent talk given as part of a panel speaking to the London Philosophy Club, on the philosophical origins of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
Continue readingFour Books by Donald Robertson
Brief description of four recent books by Donald Robertson on hypnosis, CBT, and philosophy.
Continue readingStoic Philosophy & Resilience-Building
Stoicism and psychological resilience-building are discussed in relation to modern cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) in this new self-help book on resilience, part of the popular Teach Yourself series.
Continue readingWhat your therapist didn’t tell you…
This brief article explores some well-established facts about psychological therapy that clients may not be familiar with.
Continue readingWhat not to Think: The Distortion-Spotting Exercise
This short article describes an exercise for reflecting upon and identifying potential “thinking errors” using cognitive therapy.
Continue readingAcceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
This brief article outlines the definition of psychologically flexible and inflexible styles of responding in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
Continue readingClinical Supervision
Brief article with some notes about clinical supervision for psychotherapists, counsellors and hypnotherapists.
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