How Fragile is Worry?

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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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.

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Mindfulness 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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Mindfulness Exposure Script

This is a short script for an audio recording of a mindfulness meditaiton exercise, incorporating elements of cognitive-behavioural exposure therapy.

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The Attention Training Technique (ATT)

Handout for therapy clients describing the Attention Training Technique (ATT) used in Metacognitive Therapy (MCT) in detail.

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Developing your Emotional Resilience

An excerpt from the book Build your Resilience (2012), providing some basic questions to help you begin developing your personal resilience plan.

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Appraisal of Obsessions & Compulsions

This article provides examples of questions potentially used in Metacognitive Therapy to help understand (conceptualise) obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

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