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.
Continue readingThis 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.
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.
Continue readingThis short article describes how to use worry spotting, postponement, and exposure to reduce chronic worry and generalised anxiety.
Continue readingThis 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 readingThis is a brief explanation of Beck’s generic cognitive model of anxiety (revised) with questions to help you formulate a cognitive conceptualisation of a specific example situation.
Continue readingThis short article discusses the concept of “worry” and briefly explores how modern cognitive therapy deals with worry, through treating it as a process rather than focusing on the content of the thoughts.
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