Product Description

Overcoming Anxiety is divided into workbooks that are designed to help those experiencing mild to moderate levels of anxiety and panic. The first workbooks will aid the reader in identifying and assessing the extent of their clinical problems. During sessions with a healthcare professional the client can decide which workbooks would be most helpful to their condition and work on the exercises at their own pace at home.



The workbooks are written with clarity, are well-structured and are easily accessible; the boxes, checklists, bullet points and lack of jargon all aid this difficult process. Overcoming Anxiety can be used alone or in conjunction with the Overcoming Depression book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #139693 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

From the Author
Comments on Overcoming Anxiety: A Five Areas Approach by Dr Chris Williams.

Overcoming anxiety: a five areas approach is a modular course that has been designed to help readers understand the factors that keep problems of anxiety going. It also teaches key skills of self-management so that the reader will learn the key elements of skills such as tackling practical problems, being more assertive, establishing a regular sleep pattern and challenging fearful worries.

The book covers the whole range of common anxiety presentations including worry, panic, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder – and also presentations with long-term physical ill-health including cases where anxiety problems are absent.

The content uses the cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) approach – which has an evidence base for the treatment of a wide range of anxiety disorders. A lot of attention has been made during the development and piloting of this book to ensure that the content addresses useful areas, and that it is readable and understandable. Comments have been incorporated from a range of both practitioners and also from colleagues in the charity Triumph over Phobia. The aim has been to present key and effective interventions in a clear and approachable way.

The workbook materials are designed to be used and come with a photocopying licence allowing copying for use in teaching or clinically. A linked training course is available from calipso.co.uk

Finally, I hope that the materials prove helpful and useful. I am keen to receive comments and constructive criticism on the workbooks. Feedback can be directed to me at feedback@fiveareas.com. As with the companion book Overcoming Depression: A Five Areas Approach, future revisions of the book will be made based on the consensus of feedback. I am afraid however that I cannot comment on individual clinical problems.

About the Author
Chris Williams, Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry and Medical Director, Glasgow Institute of Psychosocial Interventions. President of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.

Customer Reviews

Overcoming Anxiety
An excellent CBT self-help tool. The format is clear and the activities excellent, plus all the points made are reviewed at regular intervals to reinforce them. It was recommended to me by my GP and I can see why he considers it so useful. If you suffer from anxiety and are prepared to work at overcoming it, then this is the best book I have come across so far. I recognised so many of the symptoms which are referred to and was able, immediately, to see ways around them. It all takes time and is a bit like doing homework, but I can see some light at the end of the tunnel for the first time in many, many years.

excellent
I bought the depression workbook 1st on the advice of my therapist and it has really helped but i suffer with anxiety too so I decided to get this one as well. It's basically got the same content in it as the depression book but there are extra parts to it on obsessive compulsiveness and health related anxiety, which i found insightful. It's still the basic principle of the other book and it's laid out the same with the same way to tackle thoughts.

Overcoming Anxiety
I found this book to be a practical and well-balanced approach to something that can be hard to understand, especially to people who have not had mental 'distress' . When you have a book that is approachable and clearly written with sound advice and easy-to-read it is worth buying, which this book is.