Managing Anxiety with CBT For Dummies

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a hugely popular self-help technique, which teaches you to break free from destructive or negative behaviors and make positive changes to both your thoughts and your actions. This practical guide to managing anxiety with CBT will help you understand your anxiety, identify solutions to your problems, and maintain your gains and avoid relapse.

Managing Anxiety with CBT For Dummies is a practical guide to using CBT to face your fears and overcome anxiety and persistent, irrational worries. You'll discover how to put extreme thinking into perspective and challenge negative, anxiety-inducing thoughts with a range of effective CBT techniques to help you enjoy a calmer, happier life.

• Helps you understand anxiety and how CBT can help
• Guides you in making change and setting goals
• Gives you tried-and-true CBT techniques to face your fears and keep a realistic perspective

Managing Anxiety with CBT For Dummies gives you the tools you need to overcome anxiety and expand your horizons for a healthy, balanced life.

Introduction 1

Part I: Understanding Your Anxiety 7

Chapter 1: All About Anxiety 9

Chapter 2: Making a Map of Your Anxiety 23

Part II: Tackling Your Anxiety 37

Chapter 3: Going for Goals 39

Chapter 4: Facing Your Fears 51

Chapter 5: Finding Out if Your Fears Are Fact or Fiction 63

Chapter 6: Letting Go of Worry 81

Chapter 7: Anxiety Rules and How to Break Them 93

Part III: Making Progress and Moving On 107

Chapter 8: Looking at the Bigger Picture 109

Chapter 9: Creating Your Route Map for a Brighter Future 123

Part IV: The Part of Tens 135

Chapter 10: Ten Tips for Tackling Anxiety 137

Chapter 11: Ten Inspiring Tips for Moving On from Anxiety 145

Index 157

Graham Davey is Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Psychopathology.Kate Cavanagh is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Sussex. Fergal Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent. Lydia Turner is a Consultant Psychological Therapist, and Adrian Whittington is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, both based at the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.