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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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.
Continue readingMindfulness Exposure Script
This is a short script for an audio recording of a mindfulness meditaiton exercise, incorporating elements of cognitive-behavioural exposure therapy.
Continue readingDeveloping 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.
Continue readingMindfulness & Social Resilience
Mindfulness & Social Resilience Gaining Appropriate Psychological Distance Copyright (c) Donald Robertson, 2012. All rights reserved. Distressing thoughts in social anxiety differ qualitatively from thoughts in most other forms of anxiety insofar as they are often attributed to other people, … Continue reading
The Essence of Stoic Philosophy
This brief article sums up the essence of Stoic philosophy, based on the definitive precepts in The Handbook of Epictetus. It does so in modern language and drawing anologies with cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and mindfulness and other acceptance-based therapy approaches.
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 readingMindfulness: Some Initial Experiments
This short article guides you through some initial experiments (practical exercises) used in mindfulness and acceptance-based CBT to learn how to cope with distressing thoughts by accepting them in a detached way, while letting go of any struggle against them.
Continue readingDistancing Techniques in Cognitive Therapy
This short article outlines the strategy of “distancing” as used in Beck’s cognitive therapy, and describes the main techniques employed in this approach.
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